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Word: kornman (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...killers so that they can attack bacteria in the pockets where they fester. Standard antibiotic pills, which some specialists have relied on, needlessly expose the entire body to a powerful drug and have not always proved effective. Gum disease "behaves like a chronic type of inflammatory disease," explains Kenneth Kornman, a professor of periodontics at the University of Texas in San Antonio. "We have a hard time eliminating those bacteria." For that reason, dental researchers decided to concentrate the antibiotics' killing power by applying medication directly into infected areas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Way to Escape The Dentist's Knife? | 8/9/1993 | See Source »

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