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...determined that Sherit was probably able to walk normally and didn't have any debilitating chronic diseases. Most likely she succumbed to an infection or bad water or tainted food, as did some 50% of ancient Egyptian children within a year or two of being weaned. The bones and teeth also helped fix her age; her adult teeth hadn't grown in yet. And her gilded face mask indicated that her parents were wealthy. With higher-res scans, scientists may someday make out the hieroglyphs on the inside of the cartonnage--and thus, perhaps, give the little one back...
...those guilty of awful crimes. One female was found laid carefully on her back, with all her vertebrae in place but her ribs and one foot missing; another had its feet resting on a coral shelf. These skeletons too were headless; some had had their clavicles removed as well. Teeth sprinkled around the top of the spines suggest that the skulls were dug up at least a year after the dead were buried, by which time the teeth would have come loose. While clavicles and forearm bones are known to have been favored as tools, the fate of the skulls...
Smokers face up to six times the risk of losing teeth as a result of gum disease, but a new study offers hope. Fifty smokers being treated for gum problems were tracked for a year. Those who managed to quit smoking saw their oral health improve; those who kept lighting up just got worse. --By David Bjerklie
...good stuff?" he asks. Upstairs, several teens are sitting at the kitchen table listening to a girl who looks to be about 15 tell how she got the narcotic Oxycontin from the medicine cabinet at home. "It was left over," she says, "from my sister's wisdom-teeth surgery...
...like Oxycontin, it might be worth two or three Xanax," says a 17-year-old pharming veteran who was one of more than a dozen guests (and one of the few girls) at the New Jersey party. "We rejoice when someone has a medical thing, like, gets their wisdom teeth out or has back pain, because we know we'll get pills. Last year I had gum surgery, and I thought, Well, at least I'll get painkillers...