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...study at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, volunteers will take a medicine called flurbiprofen Harvard researchers already have found that the drug can reduce bone loss around the teeth by 66 percent in dogs which are often used to study periodontal disease...
Doctors believe the same response to injury. When caused by some dental bacteria, eats away the bone around the teeth. So their strategy is to save the teeth by the thwarting one of the body reactions to infection...
...optimistic that flurbiprofen and other not yet tested, non-steroidal, anti-inflammatory drugs will prove to be an effective way of slowing down bone loss around the teeth." said Assistant Professor of Periodontology Ray C. Williams, who is conducting the research with Marjorie Jeffcoat, also an assistant professor of Periodontology...
...researchers plan to recruit 60 adults with advanced bone loss that doesn't respond to ordinary treatment. They will take two pills a day, and the experiment will last for one and a half to three years...
...with the IMF. The need for credit, however, remains as great as ever. Last week Hugo Guiliani Cury, the Secretary of State for Finance, told TIME that the talks would be resumed. "We never said we would not make the adjustments that the IMF asked for," he explained. "The bone of contention was velocity. If we had gone ahead with more immediate austerity measures, it could have meant the end of our 20-year-old attempt at democracy...