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...real villain is the mercury that makes up about 50% of dental amalgam. In a study reported in the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, monkeys with mercury fillings showed a jump in drug-resistant bacteria from 9% to 70%; when the fillings were removed, resistance dropped to 12%. It seems the genes that protect bacteria from mercury lie close to those that protect against antibiotics, so bugs that survive one tend to survive the other...
...driven by the steady and growing pain from her tooth." Or page 89: "She remembered those two months . . . as being among the most miserable of her life." Or page 31: ". . . she feels a tug of revulsion at herself . . . for moving cowlike, thickly . . ." Lottie Gardner does, in fact, have serious dental problems throughout this irritating novel. But the ruling fact of her life is not that she has a toothache, but that...
Weishampel is also using his dental analyses to determine how the advent and proliferation of flowering plants during the early Cretaceous might have influenced population levels of large, plant-eating dinosaurs. There is some evidence, he says, that the spread of flowering plants hurt large-bodied dinosaurs like sauropods and helped the somewhat smaller duck-billed and horned dinosaurs. When flowering plants began to dominate the landscape in the mid-Cretaceous, they edged out the conifers, tree ferns and other plants that the long-established sauropods depended on. The smaller vegetarians, which evolved much later, had not become...
...doctors go into health care because they think they will control themselves," says Dr. Robert Fasciano chief of the dental health service. "They don't control themselves anyone. The insurance companies look at a service and say we don't cover that. And patients think that means it's not needed...
...Certainly, everything could use improvement," says Dr. Robert Fasciano, chief of the dental health services "I use the health facilities here, and I know how the system works. It's a lot more difficult for someone who doesn't know the system...