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Corporate dental chains see big profits in adults who can't afford care

The Center for Public Integrity | Posted 08.26.2012 | Home
Read More: Robert Fontana, Charles Grassley, Center for Public Integrity, Dentures, Dentistry, Health and Medical and Pharma, Prosthodontology, Donna Kelce, Dentist, Aspen, Theresa Ferritto, Prosthodontics, Aspen Dental Management, Restorative Dentistry, Manager, Office Manager, Tooth, Jenny Hayes, Home News
The Center for Public Integrity

By David Heath and Jill RosenbaumiWatch News and FRONTLINESurviving on a meager $1,300 a month, 87-year-old Theresa Ferritto fretted about the cost ...

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Dentures Returned From Beyond The Grave

AP | Posted 11.15.2011 | Weird News
Read More: Dental Health, Dentures, Exhumed, Alison Counts, Chattanooga, False Teeth, Parkridge Medical Center, Tennessee, Kenneth Ray Manis, Weird News News

CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. -- A Tennessee man's body is being exhumed to remove dentures that belong to another man after a mix-up at a Chattanooga hospital. ...

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TSA Took My Teeth, and I'm Mad as Hell

Anne Sobel | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Dentures, Tsa, Qatar, Vanity, Dentist, Flying, Chicago, Comedy News
Anne Sobel

TSA took my teeth. What on God's green earth would they do that for? Was I going to bite a pilot into submission mid flight? Also, what if this had been my dentures?!

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Churchill's Dentures Sold At Auction

AP | SYLVIA HUI | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
Read More: Winston Churchill, Churchill Dentures, Britain, England, Auction, Dentures, Teeth, London, Churchill, World News, World News

LONDON — A partial set of dentures used by former British leader Winston Churchill – described as the teeth that saved the world – s...

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Tales of a Serial Dater: Something's Missing

Gena Grish | Posted 05.25.2011 | Chicago
Read More: Naperville, Dating Advice, Naperville-Illinois, Dating, Chicago, Starbucks, Fake Teeth, Starbucks Coffee, Dentures, House of Blues Chicago, Teeth, Denture Cream, Chicago-Illinois, Chicago News
Gena Grish

The other day I was standing in line at Starbucks and getting my much needed Monday morning caffeine fix, when a very handsome man, with a million dollar smile, helped me pick up my credit card

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Admitting Guilt on Deadly Denture Cream

Edward F. Blizzard | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Proctor & Gamble, Dentures, Fda, Consumer Product Safety, Denture Cream, Food and Drug Administration, Glaxo Smith Kline, Zinc, Healthy Living News
Edward F. Blizzard

What led to Rodney Urbanek's symptoms and eventual death? His denture adhesive, Poligrip.

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GlaxoSmithKline Denture Cream With Zinc Discontinued After Allegations It Causes Crippling

AP | MATTHEW PERRONE and CURT ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Glaxosmithkline, Dentures, Zinc, Super Poligrip Original, Ultra Fresh, Extra Care, Business News

WASHINGTON — The maker of Poligrip denture cream will stop making formulas containing zinc amid lawsuits claiming years of excessive use caused ...

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Zinc Dentures Risk: Adhesives Blamed For Nerve Damage

reporternews.com | Sarah Avery | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Zinc, Dentures, Zinc Adhesives, Fixodent, Poligrip, Nerve Damange, Business News

Zinc in denture adhesives has been blamed in dozens of cases of nerve damage, including that of a North Carolina man who says 20 years of using the gl...

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Future Of Dentures Not Looking So Bright

The Washington Post | Posted 05.25.2011 | Style
Read More: Health, Dental Work, Dentures, Style News

As long as there are hockey players, there will be niche markets for false teeth. But the real news about the future of dentures is that there isn't m...

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