A few entrepreneurs are exploring a novel solution to the problem of finding affordable health care for themselves and their staff: Swap for it.
I think my gums are infected slightly. I brush twice a day, use Listerine, and Act rinsing. What can I use each day for getting healthier gums?
If you're looking to curb your appetite and improve your memory, you're probably exercising, eating healthier foods and trying to get some sleep.
The stress of being unemployed and looking for a new job gives Lucille Jaesson a tension headache almost every day.
Sports drinks can rehydrate you after a workout, but they also may wreak havoc on your teeth. Prolonged consumption of these types of beverages could lead to erosive tooth wear, according to a study presented at the International Association for Dental Research in Miami on Friday.
My 12-year-old stepson not only grinds his teeth but now he has started to suck his bottom lip at night. How can we stop this? Does he need to see a specialist? Need help!
If you think you're doing your teeth a favor by sipping white wine instead of red, you may need to rethink your tooth-whitening strategy.
Alan Franco, a wealth manager from Atlanta, Georgia, has a confession to make: He's a grinder.
"I'm feeling â€Â¦ the pain," the singer blogs as she recovers from dental surgery
Oral surgeon Dr. Gary Bouloux is about to pull a diseased wisdom tooth from his patient's mouth, using forceps that look like a pair of silver pliers.
A few entrepreneurs are exploring a novel solution to the problem of finding affordable health care for themselves and their staff: Swap for it.
I think my gums are infected slightly. I brush twice a day, use Listerine, and Act rinsing. What can I use each day for getting healthier gums?
If you're looking to curb your appetite and improve your memory, you're probably exercising, eating healthier foods and trying to get some sleep.
The stress of being unemployed and looking for a new job gives Lucille Jaesson a tension headache almost every day.
Sports drinks can rehydrate you after a workout, but they also may wreak havoc on your teeth. Prolonged consumption of these types of beverages could lead to erosive tooth wear, according to a study presented at the International Association for Dental Research in Miami on Friday.
My 12-year-old stepson not only grinds his teeth but now he has started to suck his bottom lip at night. How can we stop this? Does he need to see a specialist? Need help!
If you think you're doing your teeth a favor by sipping white wine instead of red, you may need to rethink your tooth-whitening strategy.
Alan Franco, a wealth manager from Atlanta, Georgia, has a confession to make: He's a grinder.
"I'm feeling â€Â¦ the pain," the singer blogs as she recovers from dental surgery
Oral surgeon Dr. Gary Bouloux is about to pull a diseased wisdom tooth from his patient's mouth, using forceps that look like a pair of silver pliers.
New York City will cancel the police academy's next class, cut hundreds of jobs and close dental clinics for poor children to trim its budget amid an economic crisis
This Halloween, 5-year-old Dylan Warren is going to be Anakin Skywalker from "Star Wars." The kindergartner in Rumson, New Jersey, likes Halloween candy, but he knows he'll have to follow his mother's rules about how much he can have.
Most of us know how to save money on groceries: You clip coupons, compare prices at different supermarkets and jump on good sales. But saving money on health care costs? That's much more complicated. Here are six Web sites to help you slash how much you're paying for drugs, dentists, doctors and hospitals.
Millions of poor American children have untreated tooth decay, some of them because they cannot find a dentist willing to treat them, a federal report issued Tuesday said.
Remember that old adage, "You can never be too thin or too rich"?
Convincing your daughter to cut down on her shower time may not be an option, so use the water-saving guidelines below to see how many gallons you and your family could conserve each year
Follow the experts' advice on these everyday fixes, for everything from your computer to your car. You'll end up saving yourself a lot of hassle -- not to mention money
Some English people have resorted to pulling out their own teeth because they cannot find -- or cannot afford -- a dentist, a major study has revealed.
Here's a look at how some people are spending their lives after changing careers or retiring. "Life After Work" airs Thursdays on CNN between 8 and 9 p.m. ET.
For the first time in decades, cavities in kids are on the rise. As many as 28 percent of children ages 2 to 5 have cavities in their baby teeth. What can you do to keep your child's teeth healthy? Answers to your most pressing dental questions, for babies on up:
You can do it without knives or needles. It's the list you've been longing for -- the fives ways to slow time and stay fabulous.
[MISS] Not ready for prime time. Even as the major carriers struggled with low adoption rates for video, it appeared that upstart Amp'd Mobile had found a demographic sweet spot producing original content for its young, hip audience. Its first hit show, an animated series called Lil' Bush, functioned as both effective viral marketing and Trojan horse for the upselling of premium content, drawing subscribers to a platform that yielded 4 million downloads of video, music, and games in the first quarter of 2007 and leading Amp'd to a revenue-per-user tally more than twice the industry average. Yet in June, even as it was making history by becoming the first to take a show from the tiny screen to the small one -- striking a deal with Comedy Central for a half-hour weekly TV version of Lil' Bush -- Amp'd filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, saying that its "back-end infrastructure was unable to keep up with customer demand."
The unthinkable happens: Kobayashi loses the Nathan's hot dog eating contest. The belt is back in America!
China is stepping up controls on dental care products amid international alarm over Chinese toothpaste producers' use of a potentially toxic chemical found in antifreeze
Joey "Jaws" Chestnut unseated the six-time defending champion in Nathan's Famous Fourth of July Hot Dog Eating Contest on Wednesday, eating 66 hot dogs and buns in 12 minutes.
Susan Kauffman can't stop smiling. Not only does she have a perfect set of teeth, but after enduring physical abuse repeatedly in her life, she also has renewed self-esteem. "I had a broken spirit," Kauffman said. "I became very isolated ... and became a recluse."
If you happened to go shopping at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Chardon, Ohio, about 30 miles outside Cleveland, you might spot two 50-ish guys browsing through the aisles, using their cell phones to...
Dr. Thomas Perls is a leading expert on aging, so I was a little nervous when he arrived recently at my house at 6:20 a.m. He was there to assess how the daily decisions I'm making are affecting my life expectancy.
Laser dentistry - in which a laser beam mixed with water is used to vaporize cavities, as well as unwanted gum tissue and enamel - is supposed to be the wave of the future.
The holiday run on big electronics purchases may have consumers thinking about Halloween instead of Christmas. Think vampires.
Cut hospital bills by 25% and drug costs by 35%...there are more ways to save than you ever realized. By Cybele Weisser and Amanda Gengler, with Asa Fitch and Daphne Mosher
Even if you're in perfect health now, just thinking about the cost of medical care is bound to make you feel a little ill. With the price of everything from hospital visits to prescription drugs up...
On the surface, bedtime is a series of tasks to be checked off: pajamas, teeth, books, kisses. But for kids and parents, it's also a tricky transition from a day of activity to a night of rest, from being together to being separate. At any point, the routine can plunge into a time sinkhole. Here's a guide to avoid the biggest barriers:
Sid and Divya Arora recently returned from a beautiful honeymoon in Hawaii, taking a leisurely cruise through the islands. Only thing is, they waited nine months after they got married to take the trip.
When Jim Cali talks about his $40 million R&D facility and his crack engineering team, you'd think he had built a Trident submarine. "It was a skunk-works project," he says. But Cali, head of comme...
At least 13 dogs have died after being fed the top-selling pet treat in the country, owners and veterinarians have told CNN.
Taking care of your mouth can cost an arm and a leg these days. Only 55% of Americans have dental insurance, which leaves nearly half of us paying the entire way for care that can easily run $300 per person a year for basic preventive checkups and cleanings. Experience a bout of expensive gum or tooth problems and you'll need a shot of Novocain to deal with the financial pain.
An airport tarmac isn't the usual route to dental school, but then Dr. John P. Kenney isn't your average tooth jockey.
Spending more time at your dentist lately? You're not alone. A recent study by economists at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services estimates that in 2005, Americans will shell out $84 billion for dental care, more than double what they spent in 1993--and that figure will grow 6.3% to 6.9% annually through 2014, when total outlays will reach $147 billion. That trend may be tough on your wallet, but it's good news for dental-supply companies like Dentsply and Sybron. One reason we're paying more for dental care is that we're living longer--and keeping our teeth. Another is that there are more things dentists can do to make teeth look good. In the early 1970s, according to government statistics, about 46% of people ages 65 to 74 had lost all their teeth. Twenty years later that figure dropped to less than 29%. "People know they will live longer and are going to great lengths to keep their natural teeth," says Floyd Pickrell Jr., CEO of Sybron. That means regular visits to the dentist not only for th
There's a market for artificial saliva, in case you didn't know, and it's finally captured the attention of the FDA.
Dog breath. Whew!!!
Michael Jackson's defense tried to undercut the conspiracy charge against him Monday by calling witnesses who disputed claims by his accuser's mother that she and her children were held against their will at Neverland Ranch.
"It won't take a moment and it won't hurt."
Through a fog of nitrous oxide, I asked the endodontist about the toothpick-like thing he was about to put in my mouth. "That's a gutta-percha point," replied the doc. "We use them to fill up the r...
I have a mouth only a dentist could love. It contains a state-of-the-art ceramic bridge, porcelain crowns, the fanciest inlays, the priciest onlays--$24,076 of repairs and gear in just the past thr...
In May, experts from the National Institutes of Health urged Americans to get aggressive with high cholesterol. If the NIH recommendations are followed, we could see a 25% increase in the number of...
Parents, brace yourselves. Your kids are still sporting their baby teeth, and you were thinking happily that the only one tugging at your wallet for the next few years would be the tooth fairy. Wro...
With everything else seeming to fall apart with each birthday, the one thing you may not think about much is your gums. You should. Most adult tooth loss is caused not by tooth decay but by gum inf...
Procter & Gamble is desperate--desperate, that is, for a hot new product, a product you haven't even heard of yet, but that ten years from now will be tucked into every kitchen cabinet from Cincinn...
Colgate-Palmolive has always been something of an odd duck among big American companies. While other corporations established a bulwark at home and then gingerly ventured abroad, this 191-year-old ...
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America has discovered a new fountain of youth: that gurgling, stainless-steel spittoon just to the left of your dentist's chair. In their quest for more gorgeous grins, Americans endured some 45 m...
Q. I am a 54-year-old federal government employee and plan to retire within 18 months. I have two savings plans at work -- a thrift plan that is just like a 401(k) and another plan in which I inves...
Soaring medical bills. Limited insurance coverage. Expensive care for the aged and critically ill. Sounds like the familiar list of problems being addressed in Washington, D.C., right? Not so fast....
Ronald Cameron, 50, a periodontist in Upper Darby, Pa., started serious planning for retirement two decades ago after attending a one-day financial seminar for doctors and dentists. "The speaker sa...
As a practicing general dentist, I have had some experiences that support your advice in December's Money Newsline on the importance of checking out a dental HMO. For more than two years, I was ass...
If you work for a company with 100 or more employees, chances are your dental bills don't have much teeth. That's because nearly 90% of such companies provide dental plans that pick up 50% to 100% ...
Cautious optimism prevails among MONEY readers who answered the question posed by our May poll: "How are you doing financially?" Sure, you are concerned about widespread layoffs, the shaky economy ...
Only all-out war could reshape Americans' lives more profoundly than the events that will begin to unfold in Washington, D.C. this month, when the Clinton Administration presents its health-reform ...
The experts say the recession ended last year. But what do you say? Are you confident enough to spend more? Or are you still marshaling your money to pay down debt? Are you saving more? But investi...
Q I recently won a free trip for two to Hawaii from WOR-AM radio. The station intends to send me a 1099 income-reporting form for $3,500 -- supposedly the value of full coach air fare. But two trav...
Thank you for the wonderful article ((''How to Save on a New Car'')) in August. I am here to tell you I saved $3,000 just from reading it. You should have seen me negotiating at the car dealers. I ...
BAUSCH & LOMB When Daniel Gill became CEO of this manufacturer of eyeglasses and other optical equipment nine years ago, he embarked on a strategy that made him appear myopic. Nowadays, he seems to...
Who needs declarative sentences? (How's that for a topic sentence?) Anyway, how long has it been since we attempted an exclusively interrogatory item? And why does the questionary mode suddenly see...
Dentists just can't help smiling these days. Although cavities are down sharply, Americans continue to put plenty of money where their mouths are: an estimated $36 billion this year, rising at the ...
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The old, boxy apartment buildings lining Gorky Street in Moscow bear little resemblance to the elegant mansions on Fifth Avenue in New York. They might even seem shabby to a tourist passing by. But...
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