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...Implement regular performance reviews, both written and oral, for supervisors and for guards...
...dentist before the disease gets out of hand, the treatment used to save the teeth is not pleasant. Wielding sharp metal tools, periodontists scrape germ-laden plaque from around the teeth and under the gumline. If that doesn't work, the usual next step is oral surgery that carves away pieces of infected...
...therapy consists of a gel that contains an antimicrobial called metronidazole. Marketed in Denmark, and just approved for use in Sweden, Ireland and Britain, the gel can be squirted into the spaces between teeth and gums. In a U.S. study of 100 patients who had completed a round of oral antibiotics, Walter Loesche of the University of Michigan and James Giordano of the University of Detroit School of Dentistry administered metronidazole on thin patches of an organic material called ethyl cellulose. Preliminary results indicate that the combination treatment saved 94% of teeth scheduled for surgery, and the teeth remained disease...
...like AIDS and cancer," says Michael Newman, a professor of periodontics at the UCLA School of Dentistry. "Dental products are low on the totem pole." Other dental researchers wonder whether acceptance of the therapies is being delayed by periodontists who don't want to lose part of their lucrative oral-surgery practice. "European countries are definitely more receptive," Loesche says. "Part of it is that they don't have a strong periodontal establishment...
...Gallardo's girlfriend discovered him engaged in oral sex with her 10-year-old daughter; but she declined to file charges, and the case was dropped. Then in 1990, deputies responding to another complaint at the house (owned by Gallardo's father) found what Snohomish County sheriff's office spokesman Elliott Woodall describes as "a lot of very disturbing material of a cult nature, a satanic nature and a pornographic nature, all oriented toward young females." They reopened the statutory-rape case involving the 10-year- old, and Gallardo pleaded guilty...