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HPV FACTS Health Risks of Oral Sex Long known to cause cervical cancer, the pervasive but often silent human papillomavirus (HPV) has been finding its way into women’s mouths ALYSSA GIACOBBE Published: Dec 30 2010 Accessed: Feb 26th 2011 http://www.womenshealthmag.com http://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/hpv-facts Mische Eddins, 37, awoke with a head cold. Or what seemed like one anyway. [...]
7 Steps to Healthy Teeth From tap water to exercise, we found the secrets to keeping your smile strong by: Jim Thornton | from: AARP The Magazine | March/April 2011 issue p.23 Accessed Feb.19, 2011 www.AARP.org Want to keep your teeth? Follow these surprising tips: 1. Break a sweat. Exercise may lower the risk of [...]
It may be hard to believe, but as recently as fifty years ago, little was known about the connections between diet, exercise and cardiac health. Terms like “cholesterol” and “aerobic exercise” were not in the common vocabulary. No one worried about trans fats. Fried chicken and butter were not causes for concern. Even the link [...]
A team of specialists at The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced that they are the first surgeons in the United States to restore a person’s sight by using a tooth. The procedure is formally called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or MOOKP). For more on this story, please view the amazing video of the procedure …..
This is an amazing new twist on the Michael Jackson saga. To all my readers, I had to post this as I found it fascinating what lengths a person will go to when seeking to feed an addiction . Although I do not know or claim that this story is factual, I read this on [...]
Yes, we know how great those sports drinks taste after a hard workout or simply to help quench your thirst especially in those hot summer months, but did you ever realize that prolonged use of some of these sports drinks might weaken your natural tooth structure. What could cause this you may ask, well, it’s [...]
New Canker Sore Therapy Found New research has been reported by a team of physicians at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev regarding the treatment of painful canker sores. The research, which was led by Dr. Illia Volkov, found that a nightly dose of vitamin B12 could help prevent these painful oral sores. The findings were [...]
The American Dental Association (ADA) , Procter & Gamble ( makers of Crest) and Oral-B conducted a survey and found that from all the physical features which included the body, eyes and hair, the smile outranks all of these features. They also found that men did not maintain this feature as well as women: Men brushed [...]
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