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...growth forests with Greens leader Bob Brown earlier in the year, Latham seemed disengaged; his bearings were out of whack and he was subdued, Brown says. To remain fresh, Latham will also have to master distinguishing the meaningful from the banal when he tells his story. Launching a dental program in inner Sydney, Latham revealed to journalists and state politicians that he, too, had teeth and had visited a dentist. Aged 13, he'd chipped a tooth in junior league and had to go and see Nelson Wong in Ingleburn to have it fixed...
BEFORE THE 1972 OLYMPICS, YOU APPLIED TO DENTAL SCHOOL. DID YOU EVER THINK OF GOING BACK TO CLEAN TEETH? I always wanted to be a dentist from the time I was in high school, and I was accepted to dental school in the spring of 1972. I was planning to go, but after the Olympics there were other opportunities. I did some television and speaking engagements, and things just went from there...
...first doctor's visit during that three-month period. The fee was widely attacked by doctors and patients alike as awkward and onerous. But along with costlier fees for unreferred visits to specialists, a larger patient share of drug costs and a stop to reimbursements for eyeglasses and dental prostheses, it has helped the country round the corner. Health Minister Ulla Schmidt announced this summer that for the first time in 10 years, Germany's public-health system was no longer in the red. The number of doctor visits was down 10% for the first quarter compared to the same...
...million Number of rural Chinese who have never brushed their teeth, according to a government survey of dental health...
Each year Americans drink, on average, nearly 600 cans of soda apiece. What does that do to their teeth? Professor J. Anthony von Fraunhofer of the University of Maryland Dental School decided to find out. Fraunhofer and dental student Matthew Rogers took 20 healthy teeth extracted for orthodontic or periodontal reasons, cut them into tiny blocks of tooth enamel and exposed the blocks to a variety of popular soft drinks, including Coke, Pepsi, Mountain Dew, Dr Pepper, Sprite, Canada Dry ginger ale and canned Arizona iced tea. All the drinks weakened or permanently destroyed the enamel. Diet sodas were just...