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Doing double duty at the dentist.(gums, heart disease)(Brief Article)

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Last month we reported on the link between healthy gums and heart disease. Here's yet another reason to visit the dentist. According to the November 2000 issue of the Journal of the American Dental Association, results from a panoramic dental radiograph (wide-angle X-ray) done on a 67-year-old woman showed that calcium deposits were clogging her carotid arteries. The woman had shown no signs or symptoms of carotid artery disease, a potentially life-threatening ...

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