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HPV and Cancer

In my humble opinion, Michael Douglas’s portrayal of Liberace in HBO’s “Behind the Candelabra” was quite the performance well deserving of the publicity that Time Warner invested in the production. Buses plastered with Michael Douglas/Liberace’s visage ran up and down the avenues of New York for weeks prior…

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A Very Special Holiday Weekend

For the past eight Memorial Day weekends, I have celebrated the start of summer with my friends on Fire Island. But not this year. Rather than strolling the sandy seashores of our beautiful beach, I found myself wandering the hallowed halls of higher learning at Cornell University where…

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Popcorn – Danger In The Movie Theater

Oh to appreciate the simple pleasures in life: that first sip of coffee in the morning, a walk in the park on a beautiful spring day, seeing a much-anticipated movie in a theatre with a large bag of freshly popped popcorn on your lap. But you better be…

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Dental Fear (from a Dentist’s Perspective)

I’ve been a New York City dentist for 30 years, and believe me, we have a lot of everything here, including a lot of people who are scared of going to the dentist! Recently I decided to do some Google searches for terms such as: gentle dentist, gentle…

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Painless Root Canal Treatment: An Oxymoron?

So I was informed by one of my professional journals that this past week was “Root Canal Awareness Week,” which explains why I had noticed scores of people running fearfully down the streets of Manhattan while screaming in pain. (I’m only joking; not the part about root canal…

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Why Do You Have Sensitive Teeth?

Millions of people suffer from sensitive teeth. Here’s what causes it and what you can do about it. So, you just finished a hot cup of joe at your neighborhood coffee emporium. You walk back outside, and bam – your teeth are suddenly jolted with pain from the…

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