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...Nike phenomenon is challenging Confucian-style deference to elders too. At the Nike shop in a ritzy Shanghai shopping mall, Zhen Zhiye, 22, a dental hygienist in a miniskirt, persuades her elderly aunt, who has worn only cheap sneakers that she says "make my feet stink," to drop $60 on a new pair. Zhen explains the "fragrant possibilities" of higher-quality shoes and chides her aunt for her dowdy ways. Her aunt settles on a cross trainer. For most of China's history, this exchange would have been unthinkable. "In our tradition, elders pass culture to youth," says researcher Zhang...
Advances in dental surgery are giving faster and less painful options to people seeking to replace their worn-out teeth. A look at the next generation of top-notch choppers...
...USUALLY HAVE few good options for replacing your teeth. Either you use removable dentures or you undergo an expensive, long and painful procedure to install permanent dental implants. A new method takes a lot of the sting out of the implant process, although it still puts a hurt on your wallet...
Traditional dental implants aren't cheap, costing $20,000 to $25,000 for a full jaw--double that for uppers and lowers. More daunting is the ordeal, which can take a year or more of mouth surgeries...
...Procera System, developed by Nobel Biocare, a leader in dental prosthetics, changes all that. The keys are software that makes it possible to design a patient's prosthesis in advance and a plastic surgical guide that fits over the gums and enables the surgeon to place the implants precisely without splaying open the gums, thus reducing healing time and the risk of infection. The surgery takes only an hour under local anesthesia. "This is revolutionary," says Abraham Ingber of Bethesda, Md., one of 20 U.S. prosthedontists working with the system. The company plans to launch Procera nationwide in the first...