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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...
...third of her salary in taxes and social-security contributions. Today it's about half - far more than the 30% levied in neighboring Switzerland and the U.S., or the 27% rate in Japan. At the same time, beginning next year, the German government will no longer pay for some dental treatment or cover Moser's salary if she falls sick and is off work more than six weeks. That means she'll have to buy her own insurance - taking another slice out of her €1,600 monthly take-home pay. "It's a slow, continual slide," she shrugs. Moser...
Former Harvard Dental School student Martin Urban was sentenced to six years in prison last Thursday after being convicted of two counts of rape on June 28, two months after his first trial resulted in a hung jury...
Prosecutors said the alleged rapes were committed on Dec. 20, 2001, when Urban, 30, drove the victim—a friend and classmate at the dental school—home from a party. The victim was asleep in the backseat of Urban’s car before he raped her twice...
...American Dental Association last week gave Listerine its stamp of approval, saying that rinsing with the mouthwash is just as effective as flossing. Sound too good to be true? It is. While research published in the ADA journal and funded by Pfizer, which makes Listerine, shows that regular brushing along with using the mouthwash is as effective as flossing for reducing plaque and gingivitis, the greatest benefits come from doing all three--brushing, flossing and gargling...