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Month January 2012

PERIODONTAL HYGIENE & HEART PROBLEMS

Is there a relationship between dental hygiene and heart problems ?? Most of the ordinary citizens will say a definite NO. How can there be any connection between heart diseases and oral hygiene.
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MANAGING CHILD PATIENT IN CLINIC

"You know too much", was the innocent response from my dentist's receptionist to the questions I asked my dentist about my own dental treatment. Her words were ringing in my ears for days. Telling readers to get information prior to treatment has always been a major focus of my articles. Yet, his hygienist had already caught me by surprise by doing an "unauthorized" fluoride treatment on my five-year-old. And, without my knowledge, the dentist had previously placed a formocresol-medicated cotton pellet into my tooth between root canal therapy visits. I was
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