Reality Check: Women and Heart Disease

  One evening when Jonna Elzen went to bed, she felt restless and unable to sleep. It seemed odd but she figured it was simply stress and fatigue, although the tenderness in her chest was a little alarming.  “It wasn’t pressure or heaviness,” Jonna, 49, recalled of the incident in 2005. “It was like someone had punched [...]

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Biting Down on Gum and Heart Disease

Back when my father and grandfather were both general dentists, they taught me that the goal of dentistry was to keep the teeth for life. That is a goal that has now broadened to include controlling tooth and gum disease to prevent complications all over the body. My grandfather spent most of his career extracting [...]

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