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Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated
If I asked you to name the most common chronic disease in children, what would you say? Asthma comes top of mind, but there is something five times more common in kids: cavities. We don’t typically think of dental cavities as a chronic disease—in part because of the separation between medicine and dentistry—but it is…
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| Sep 17, 2024 | Reports of the death of dental cavities are greatly exaggerated by Gadiguibou | 196 | 163 |
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