Got Tooth Decay? Blame Your Mom.
| 'M' is for the million things she gave me... |
In a paper appearing in the current issue of the Journal of Dental Research -- read, rinse, spit -- UCSF professor Jane Weintraub notes that the rural Hispanic subjects in her study had nearly double the odds of developing tooth decay if their mothers had untreated tooth decay as well.
| ...No thanks to you! |
The doctor's recommendations: The government needs to work harder to get poor people to dentists; dentists need to keep an eye on entire families and not just the patient under the drill; and you -- you need to go to the damn dentist.



















