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Shout out for GKAS sponsors

Washington—Let’s hear it for Give Kids A Smile corporate sponsors, ADA President Dr. Charles Norman said at a DC Dental Society Foundation reception Feb. 6 honoring GKAS volunteers and community partners.

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Dave Barry

“We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.”
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Making a Difference: ‘While I can, I will help’

For Dr. Jean Woo, operating a successful dental practice is about more than attracting new patients.

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Today is Give Kids A Smile day

Today is the American Dental Association’s 12th national Give Kids A Smile day and dental professionals from coast to cost are mobilizing to provide free oral health services to 350,000 children and adolescents from underserved families.

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J. B. Priestley

“Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.”
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Factors affecting the success rate of buccal infiltration anaesthesia in the mandibular molar region

ConclusionsThe differences in the injection sites did not affect the anaesthetic success rates for the mandibular second premolar and molar teeth. However, articaine buccal infiltration produced a higher anaesthetic success rate in the second premolar and first molar teeth of Korean female patients.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. (Source: International Endodontic Journal)
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GKAS Day at homeless mission hums along thanks to Institute lessons

St. Paul, Minn.—Lyla Lepkowski swallowed her fears and opened her mouth bravely.  The 10-year-old’s mother signed her up two weeks ago for an appointment to receive free dental treatment today at the Give Kids A Smile Day event at Union Gospel Mission here.

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Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider

“Sometimes the mind, for reasons we don’t necessarily understand, just decides to go to the store for a quart of milk.”
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Biological width formation to immediate implants placed at different level in relation to the crestal bone: an experimental study in dogs

ConclusionsThe alterations that occurred in the peri?implant soft tissues may be related to the hard tissue remodeling, showing similar quantitative findings in the biological width formation in both groups. Even though the subcrestal placement might reduce the distance from the implant shoulder to the first bone?to?implant contact and reestablish the biological width dimension in a most coronal position, it might not have any effect on minimizing the marginal bone loss. (Source: Clinical Oral Implants Research)

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Music Girlz With Grillz: 15 Ladies With Dental Bling

It’s grills gone wild in Hollywood these days! We thought it was over back in ’06 , but lately the teeth bling thing has been making a comeback in a huge way.

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