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<title>West Virginia 47th in dentist visits</title>
<description><![CDATA[West Virginia has one of the lowest percentages of adults who go to a dentist.Only three states — Oklahoma, Mississippi and Arkansas — had fewer people who reported that they went to a dentist’s office last year, according to new data from the federal Cen...]]></description>
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Mon, 31 Dec 2007 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Kids’ tooth-pulling expenses are higher than cleaning costs</title>
<description><![CDATA[With each breath of the gas, she was floating higher, fingers tingling, belly tickling, her worries so washed away that she scarcely noticed the syringe needle slowly descending toward her open mouth.Six-year-old Madison Salisbury would have a present to ...]]></description>
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<title>‘Our system has failed’</title>
<description><![CDATA[FORT GAY — Seven months pregnant, Stacey Handley squeezed into the dentist’s chair, opened wide and watched the whirling high-speed drill disappear into her mouth toward the broken tooth that ached with pain. “Get ready, here comes Mr. Bumpy,” Dr. Dan Bro...]]></description>
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<title>Editorial: Painful</title>
<description><![CDATA[WEST VIRGINIANS lag behind the rest of America in dental care. In fact, dental disease is so bad in the Mountain State that reporter Eric Eyre found that 42.9 percent of state residents age 65 and older have lost all their teeth, the highest rate in the co...]]></description>
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Mon, 07 May 2007 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Part 4: The fight for fluoride</title>
<description><![CDATA[<B><a href="http://webad.cnpapers.com/stateofdecay/">Click to watch slideshow</a></B>This is the final installment in a four-part series focusing on oral health problems in West Virginia. LICK CREEK — Part of Brittany Sammons’ front tooth broke off. S...]]></description>
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<title>Part 3: Nothing to smile about</title>
<description><![CDATA[<B><a href="http://webad.cnpapers.com/stateofdecay/">Click to watch slideshow</a></B><i>This is the third installment in a series of articles focusing on oral health in West Virginia.</i>HUNTINGTON — The young girl didn’t want to open her mouth. Her m...]]></description>
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<title>Part 2: Dentures in a day</title>
<description><![CDATA[BARBOURSVILLE — Todd Joseph steered off Interstate 64, stomped the accelerator up Mall Road and walked into a blue vinyl-sided building with a wraparound porch where 14 people waited for a reason to smile. It was 7:15 a.m., 15 degrees outside, the first m...]]></description>
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Mon, 30 Apr 2007 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Part 1: Peroxide and pliers for those too poor to pay</title>
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Sun, 29 Apr 2007 00:00:00 -0400
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<title>Dental needs are unmet across state</title>
<description><![CDATA[Rebecca Bowe has used the same pair of dentures since the early 1980s. Bowe, 65, started losing her teeth in her 20s. One tooth went bad, then another. A dentist eventually told her she should have the rest of them pulled. At 26, she had no teeth. Bowe h...]]></description>
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<title>Appalachia heart of poor dental health</title>
<description><![CDATA[LOUISA, Ky. — Thomas Reed’s daughter won an award for the prettiest smile at her Louisa, Ky., school. Reed admits he would never win such an honor. He hasn’t been to a dentist since he was a boy. He never flosses his teeth, seldom brushes. He has chronic ...]]></description>
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<title>Getting teeth fixed, and back on the job</title>
<description><![CDATA[Donald Powell wanted a job, but he dreaded going for an interview. Powell hadn’t gone to the dentist to get his teeth cleaned in nine years. The only time he visited the dentist was to get a tooth “cut out.” His front teeth were missing. “When you work i...]]></description>
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<title>Rural dentist tackles toothaches</title>
<description><![CDATA[HARTS — Dr. Jon Paul Kardos sees some of the worst teeth in West Virginia.He’s the only dentist here at the Harts Health Center in Lincoln County. He takes care of about 20 people a day, patients with gum disease, lip cancer, swollen faces and rotted teet...]]></description>
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Fri, 27 Apr 2007 01:00:00 -0400
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<title>Open wide</title>
<description><![CDATA[HUNTINGTON - Chris Smith's teeth started to fall out one by one, weeks after his mouth slammed into his car's steering wheel during an accident seven years ago in Wayne County. At one point, Smith said, he had a mouthful of abscesses and most of his teeth...]]></description>
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Sat, 17 Feb 2007 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Dental hygienests want new rights</title>
<description><![CDATA[HARTS -- Barbara Hughes polishes teeth. She also takes X-rays, scrapes under gums, applies sealants to children's molars to block decay and tells people about proper flossing and brushing. She's done all those things and more as a dental hygienist in Sou...]]></description>
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<title>West Virginia University to chomp down on tooth decay</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN -- You don't stomp out tooth decay with just a dentist's drill. Armed with a $200,000 Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation grant, West Virginia University is launching a series of programs designed to improve oral health across the state. New...]]></description>
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Mon, 15 Jan 2007 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Local dentists offer free care</title>
<description><![CDATA[The free examinations will be 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Bible Center Church, 111 Oakhurst Drive, just off Corridor G in Charleston. After signing up for an examination, children will receive free dental care from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Feb. 2 at Smith &amp; Smith D...]]></description>
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Sat, 13 Jan 2007 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Taking a bite out of tooth decay</title>
<description><![CDATA[MORGANTOWN - Brandi Howard, a senior at West Virginia University's School of Dentistry, likes to take her time when she's drilling a tooth, pulling a molar or fitting a crown. So before she started on a six-week practicum at a rural dental practice in Webs...]]></description>
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Mon, 25 Dec 2006 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Doctors, officials seek fix for state's oral health woes</title>
<description><![CDATA[When Beverly Walter travels across West Virginia, she hears a lot of opinions about who's to blame for the state's poor oral health. "The parents blamed the dentists," said Walter, vice president of the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. "The dentists...]]></description>
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Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:00:00 -0500
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<title>Filling the gap</title>
<description><![CDATA[Twelve-year-old Khadijah Lee was telling her friend she wasn't afraid to have her lone remaining baby tooth pulled. "It's painful when I eat," Khadijah said of the infected tooth. "I'm just ready for it to come out." But reality set in as the dentist pic...]]></description>
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<title>Benedum grants target dental needs in state</title>
<description><![CDATA[A Pittsburgh-based foundation has distributed $1 million to five West Virginia groups to improve dental health across the state. Valley Health of Huntington received the largest grant - $600,000 - from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation. Valley He...]]></description>
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