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ARTICLE: Dr. Bromboz, Cosmetic Dentist, Has a New Twist on Previewing A Smile Make Over: The "Trial Smile"

ARTICLE: Smile Makeover
-by Dr. Jonathan J. Bromboz

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Fluoride

ARTICLE: Crispy Bones, Mind Fog… What was I just saying?

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Gum Disease

Mother's gum disease linked to infant's death

By Linda Carroll
msnbc.com contributor
updated 8:43 a.m. ET, Fri., Jan. 22, 2010

Pregnant woman's gingivitis caused baby to be stillborn, scientists say.
Pregnant women with untreated gum disease may have more at stake than just their teeth. They may also be risking the lives of their babies, a new study shows.

Expectant mothers have long been warned that gum disease can cause a baby to be born prematurely or too small. But for the first time scientists have linked bacteria from a mother's gums to an infection in a baby that was full-term but stillborn, according to the study which was published Thursday in Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Scientists from Case Western University made the discovery after a 35-year-old California woman contacted them to help investigate the death of her baby. Earlier studies by the same researchers showed that an oral bacteria called Fusobacterium nucleatum could spread from the bloodstream to the placenta in mice. The woman wanted to know if it was possible in humans.

Tooth Infection Causes Brush with Death