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Kissing & Cavities

Cavities; The notorious grating sound of the dentist’s drill may scare you away from candy and chocolate, but did you ever think you could get cavities from kissing?

Child Dies for Lack of Dental Care

The Washington Post reported today that a twelve year old Prince George's County, Maryland boy died Sunday after the infection from an abscessed tooth spread to his brain. The boy had not been receiving routine dental care.

Dental Health and Children

Tooth decay is one of the most common chronic childhood diseases - it is five times more common than asthma. By the first grade, more than 50 percent of children in the United States have dental caries (decay) in their primary teeth, and more than 80 percent of U.S. adolescents have dental decay by age seventeen.

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