Word: teeth
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...television camera may treat her unkindly, as it does Mondale, though for a different reason. Mondale often comes across on the tube as wooden and buttoned up. Ferraro can be animated, but her edgy, fast-talking style is hot for the cool medium. Her Queens accent might set some teeth to grinding. Her tendency to shoot from the lip could produce gaffes in a national campaign...
Doctors believe the same response to injury. When caused by some dental bacteria, eats away the bone around the teeth. So their strategy is to save the teeth by the thwarting one of the body reactions to infection...
...optimistic that flurbiprofen and other not yet tested, non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs will prove to be an effective way of slowing down bone loss around the teeth." said Assistant Professor of Periodontology Ray C. Williams, who is conducting the research with Marjorie Jeffcoat, also an assistant professor of Periodontology...
...germs injure the tissue, and one of the body's responses appears to be the production of arrachidonic acid. Then enzymes turn this acid into three chemicals-prostaglandins, prostacyclines and thromboxane-and scientists believe that, among other things, these chemicals inflame the gums and erode the bone around the teeth...
Flurbiprofen and similar drugs block one of the enzymes that are necessary for all this to happen. And the researchers think this is how the medicine preserved the dog's teeth...