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...they cross borders for care. Retirees, especially the snowbirds who winter in South Texas and Arizona, have turned Mexican towns like Nuevo Progreso (pop. 9,125; dentists, 70), in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, and Los Algodones (pop. 15,000; doctors and dentists, 250), near Yuma, Ariz., into dusty dental centers. Los Algodones might rake in as much as $150 million during the winter season. People from Minnesota and California arrive in chartered planes to get their teeth fixed in these dental oases. Two California insurers, Health Net and Blue Shield, for the past few years have marketed popular health...
...movie was full-throttle farce with generically catchy songs, and it presaged the next generation of smart-silly musical comedies. Among its spawn were Hairspray and Spamalot, shows that put a post-modern twist on the antique shows of the '20s and '30s. Back then, plots were dental-floss clotheslines on which to hang a dozen chipper songs, and the audiences were meant to go out humming and smiling...
...Predominantly but not overwhelmingly black, Jones? faithful didn?t simply join his church; they became its complete dependents and indentured slaves. They received medical and dental care (when Jones or his board approved it) while they turned their paychecks over to the Temple, receiving a weekly allowance of $5. Jones stoked and coveted their devotion: "if you want me as your God, I?ll be your...
...they’ll escape it,” he said. The study was conducted from 2000 to 2005 on 534 children, aged 6 to 10. Half of the participants were from Boston and the other half were from Farmington, Maine. The participants received free dental care, and incentives such as free gift certificates for CDs for each completed dentist visit. The study made no claims about the long-term effects of exposure to mercury, according to Bellinger. “There is a possibility that some subtle effects might emerge years from now, but based on what we?...
...Health Policy and Epidemiology, who led the study, wrote in an e-mail that she found a significant relationship between fluoride and cancer—contradicting the findings of her dissertation adviser Chester Douglass, the chair of the Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology Department at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. “We found an association between fluoride levels in drinking water during childhood and osteosarcoma for males diagnosed before age 20 years,” she wrote. Douglass’ $1.3 million dollar, 15 year study did not find a link between drinking fluoridated water and developing...