Biomedical subjects
Eric K Curtis
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Advice for a young editor: my journey in dental journalism.
Editing is sometimes a good route to writing; it may certainly be useful for an editor to understand the writer's point of view. Tips are offered regarding building writing skills, developing personal discipline, and generating story ideas. Writing and editing can be a way of finding out who one is.
Dental education in San Francisco: the Dugoni era.
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Betrayal of trust: reflections on questionable dental practices.
Dentistry is built on relationships of trust between individual practitioners and their patients and their colleagues. Increasing commercialism may be eroding some of that trust. An inventory of questionable practices is presented along with examples. These include inappropriate care that is unreasonable, aggressive, or intrusive; inappropriate billings, and misrepresentone's identity or qualifications. Although dentistry is predominantly provided by individual practitioners, it is not practiced in a vacuum.
Take your children to work.
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Meth mouth: a review of methamphetamine abuse and its oral manifestations.
Illicit methamphetamine use is reported widely by news media and discussed increasingly among scholars, clinicians, and members of civic and law enforcement organizations and legislative bodies. This article examines the phenomenon of methamphetamine abuse, including its extent, its effects on both users and society, and its implications for dentistry. Meth mouth refers to a pattern of oral signs and symptoms of methamphetamine abuse, thought to include rampant caries and tooth fracture, leading to multiple tooth loss and edentulism.