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  • Caries is not cancer, but Americans are spending too much money and time on this nuisance disease.

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  • Rosen, ‘Genetic factors in experimental rat caries’, in R. F. Sognnaes, ed., Advances in Experimental Caries Research Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1955, 66–81.

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  • Rosen, ‘Genetic factors in experimental rat caries’, in R. F. Sognnaes, ed., Advances in Experimental Caries Research Washington DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1955, 66–81.

    THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009

  • Caries super sweet blog, cupcake picture frames, ellecupcake comments:

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  • Caries super sweet blog, cupcake picture frames, ellecupcake

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  • DESCRIPTION, SYMPTOMS, AND CAUSES: Caries is the rotting of the teeth.

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  • Caries begins with the deposit of plaque in the teeth.

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  • Caries may be indicated at first by a dark spot on the table of the tooth, later by a cavity.

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  • 'Caries tuberculosa', hung at the head of the bed, and shook at each movement of the patient.

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  • -- _Caries_ is a word which appears to be used with a considerable amount of looseness.

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