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Tooth decay prevalent among Alaska native children

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Native Alaskan children living in remote villages have rates of tooth decay about four times the national average, a government study showed.Lack of fluoridated water and an abundance of sugary, carbonated soda pop were the major reasons cited ...

Study finds tooth decay prevalent among Alaska Native children

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - Alaska Native children in remote villages have rates of tooth decay about four times the national average, a government study showed on Thursday.The study, which tracked dental health of children in the mostly Yupik Eskimo region of southwestern ...

Making cold calls? People would rather give up sex

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The prospect of making cold calls for a week as a salesperson is more unappealing than giving up sex for a month, a survey showed this week.Only getting a root canal was deemed worse than making sales calls ...

South Korea transport goes green on recharging road

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea is trying a new way to turn public transport green by using a technology popular in electric toothbrushes and razors to power buses and cars.The country's top technology university on Tuesday unveiled a new electric transport powered ...

Jury's out on best way to clean dentures

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - For sparkling-clean dentures, brushing may be best, the authors of a new review of the medical literature say.But because there were actually very few published studies of denture cleaning methods, and those that they found were likely ...

Whitening strips safe in those with dry mouth

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with dry mouth caused by medications they are taking can safely use 10% hydrogen peroxide whitening strips, researchers report online by the journal Gerontology.Reduced production of saliva is thought to make people poor candidates for tooth ...

Whitening strips helpful for dry mouth

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Patients with dry mouth caused by medications they are taking can safely use 10% hydrogen peroxide whitening strips, researchers report online by the journal Gerontology.Reduced production of saliva is thought to make people poor candidates for tooth ...

Study will delve into oral health, memory link

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The National Institutes of Health has awarded $1.3 million to an interdisciplinary team that will investigate how people's oral health might affect their memory, and vice versa.Dr. Bei Wu, a gerontologist at the University of North Carolina ...