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Their inhabitants dwelled in sunken pits and lived from hunting, fishing, and the gathering of roots and nuts.
Over the last 50 years, the widespread usage of fluoridated water and fluoridated dentrifices have been cited as major reasons for a decline in caries since the early 1970s [ 1 ] , and for the appearance of a significant association between oral hygiene and caries experience [ 2 3 4 ] . An inverse relationship exists between salivary fluoride concentration and caries experience in the deciduous and permanent dentition [ 5 ] , but fluoride concentration is excluded from most caries prediction models [ 6 7 ] . Acids in bacterial plaques cause caries in pits, fissures and interdental regions of teeth, but they also enhance the inhibitory effect of fluoride on demineralization, confounding the ability to predict caries from the salivary fluoride concentration [ 8 9 ] .
The issue pits the rich countries against the poor ones, and no progress is made.
This results in an unusual list that pits the paperbacks of successful literary novels such as Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things against hardcover celebrity health books such as Marilu Henner's Total Health Makeover and inspirational titles such as Chicken Soup for the Pet Lover's Soul . The list even includes the occasional children's title.
The old way was to take a flat stick, hickory was good, and jab it with an ice pick hundreds of times, spread beef tallow over the pits, and finally sprinkle boiling spring sand on and work it in.
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