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...celebrated Black Achievers William Dawson, Marcus Garvey, W.C. Handy, Charles S. Johnson, John Mercer Langston, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes--was stretched so thin that in the periodicals section you would be lucky to find a well-worn Ebony and a month-old newsmagazine that someone had snatched from a dentist's office...
...real men don't read Playboy; they read Sports Illustrated, right? Get real, Sports Illustrated is a family deal, a dentist's office rag. Young and old, men and women read it; and, no Mr. Mulvoy, we don't all get turned on by your aesthetic advertising...
...alone in the office speaking to inmates on three different lines at once. "It's hard to get in touch with people there. They need more phones, is what they need," says one inmate whose cellmate had been suffering from a toothache but was unable to see a dentist until PLAP sent a letter to the sheriff. This inmate said his cellmate was immediately taken to the dentist the day the sheriff got the letter from PLAP...
...lived here these years where I was provided for," said Swami Sagar Chetcan, a resident of the commune. "My clothes were clean. I had clean sheets. I was fed. I had a doctor when I was ill and a dentist when I had a toothache...
...population ages and more people keep their own teeth, periodontics, the specialty that deals with the treatment of gum disease, has become a large portion of the dentist's trade. More than 70% of tooth loss among adults is due to gum disease, which typically remains symptomless until it is well advanced. Says Dr. John Karch of Atlanta: "It is second only to the common cold" in the number of people affected. Gum disease is caused by bacteria that produce a colorless, sticky film called plaque, which, if left undisturbed by a toothbrush or dental floss, leaves a hard residue...