Word: dentists
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...topic of squash, the two are modest. A dentist might say that getting either to discuss squash achievements is like teeth. But when it comes to each other, Stephanie and Marty have plenty...
Many patients are eyeing their doctors and dentists with growing suspicion these days. The anxiety stems from reports of medical professionals' dying of AIDS and, most alarmingly, of a woman who claims to have been infected with the virus by her dentist during a tooth extraction. Amid the swelling concern and hyped press, the Centers for Disease Control is considering a controversial shift in policy that for the first time would recommend restrictions on health-care workers infected with the AIDS virus...
Several studies have tracked the patients of AIDS-infected doctors and dentists, but to date there has not been a single confirmed case of the virus' being transmitted from a health-care worker to a patient. The Florida incident involving Kimberly Bergalis, 22, who allegedly acquired the virus from her dentist, is still open to question. Federal investigators have not determined how she was exposed to the dentist's blood. Even if the Bergalis case is an instance of doctor-to-patient transmission, the risk is minute when compared with other medical dangers. Says Dr. Julie Gerberding, director...
Like moths around candles, a number of gifted writers have been dazzled by that subspecies of Homo americanus, the murdering sociopath. Witness Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Joe McGinniss's Fatal Vision. Or this well-crafted account of the fatal swath cut by an Indiana-born dentist named Kenneth Z. Taylor...
...will be important to determine how this type of drug compares with conventional mechanical treatment and how it may advance the dentist's ability to treat the disease," he said...