A seriously injured bald eagle now has a bionic beak, thanks to modern technologyOne morning in 2005, an adult female bald eagle was spotted whilst scrounging for food at a landfill in Alaska. Emaciated, she was starving to death in the midst of a bounty of food. A poacher had shot her in the face, shattering the upper mandible of her beak, leaving her with a useless stump. The damage left Beauty with just a small portion of her left upper beak and destroyed almost all of the right side. Trying to eat using this mangled beak was like “eating with one chopstick” according to raptor specialist Jane Fink Cantwell. The eagle was relocated to Birds of Prey Northwest, a nonprofit organisation located near Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. There, she was nursed back to health by a small army of volunteers. A…
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– September 9, 2012
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– September 9, 2012
Washington—A Capitol Hill forum Aug. 17 advanced varied strategies for “Oral Health: Putting Teeth into the Health Care System.”
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– September 7, 2012
I have a patient with an ailing implant who requires a full thickness flap exposure plus a debridement and decontamination of the implant surface. (Source: Dental Implants Discussed by Experts)
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– September 7, 2012
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– September 7, 2012
The ADA offered 10 Reasons to Fluoridate Public Water to participants in an Aug. 17 Capitol Hill forum on “Oral Health: Putting Teeth into the Health Care System.”
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– September 6, 2012
“When your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt.”
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– September 6, 2012
Conclusions: Significant reductions in the scores of S. mutans were found after the four week use of 20% xylitol mouthrinse. The bacteriostatic effect of xylitol mouthrinse on S. mutans may be comparable to other xylitol products. Further studies are needed to confirm both the short and long term effects of xylitol mouthrinse. (Source: Journal of Dentistry)
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– September 6, 2012
After four children and almost 30 years of marriage, she was overweight, her few remaining teeth were rotten stumps, her skin rough and mottled.
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– September 6, 2012
Gainesville, Fla.—Dr. Matthew Nawrocki’s degree from the University of Florida College of Dentistry prepared him for the clinical side of dentistry. But the business side? He needed some more help.
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– September 5, 2012
