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...kind that is usually sent out by claims adjusting firms assigned to liquidate the stock of a bankrupt company at distress prices. Every week more than a million similar notices, offering everything from Bibles to binoculars, go into mailboxes across the U.S.-and every week thousands of people bite at the bait...
...married women who decide that the work will greatly improve their looks. Others are people aged 40 to 60 who should have had it done as children, when it was not available or their parents could not afford it. In the vast majority, the damage caused by a bad bite increases over the years, and adults must have the job done lest they lose all their teeth prematurely or suffer serious disease of the jawbones...
Children usually find orthodontics* easier than do adults, as their growing bones are more malleable. What many adults suffer from is the tendency of teeth to shift after a few have been removed because of decay. The shift changes the bite, and this in turn may lead to erosion of bone as far back as the hinge of the jaw. Just as damaging in the long run, is the weakening of the gums that results from a bad bite. Far more adult teeth are lost to gum and bone disease than to decay, dentists...
...Better Bite for Father Head-to-Toe Hypnosis
...dark), like The Rehearsal, and still others "grating"-Waltz of the Toreadors. But everything Anouilh does springs from a pervading and indivisible pessimism. He is a cynic uncongealed: the wound remains open. Abandoned ideals and buoyancies can be seen within. And when he turns on the times, his bite is bitter: "Give us a bit more comfort! That's our battle cry now. All the ingenuity of men, which was harnessed for so long to nobility and beauty, is now bent on finding something a bit softer to put under their bottoms. Contraptions to make our drinks cooler...