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By Scott Calvert | October 26, 2008
James Bennett hadn't seen a dentist in a decade. He had other priorities, like scoring heroin. Even if he'd been of a mind to do something about his rotting teeth, he wouldn't have known where to go or whom to call. Now, at long last, he sat in the blue exam chair in the Southwest Baltimore office of Dr. Larry Bank, a cramped space with a bucolic wallpaper scene of a waterfall. At 45, Bennett is trying to restart his life. That means getting a grip on his addiction through a residential rehab program - and fixing his ragged mess of a mouth.
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By Cassandra A. Fortin | October 19, 2008
The folks who work with the Berg Dental Group in Forest Hill are always looking for ways to make their patients relax. On a recent afternoon, about 25 employees at the dental clinic gathered in their break room for a class on magic and balloon sculpting. For more than an hour, the employees watched as Jeff Teate, the balloon man, showed them how to lighten up a visit to the dentist. "I was terrified of the dentist when I was a kid," said Teate, 42, of Aberdeen. "I wanted to do something to help kids become more relaxed when they go to the dentist.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen | May 1, 2008
Dr. August Raymond "Gus" Machen, a retired Towson dentist, died Saturday at the Blakehurst retirement community in Towson of complications from a fall he suffered a month ago. He was 87. Dr. Machen was born and raised in Baltimore and was a graduate of city public schools. He was a graduate of the University of Maryland Dental School. During World War II, he served as an Army dentist and was assigned to the European theater of operations. Dr. Machen, who maintained a general dental practice in Towson for more than 35 years, retired in the 1980s.
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By Tanika White | April 28, 2008
About 12 years ago, Carrie Lemon started losing teeth. One by one, to curb pain, Lemon had most of her teeth extracted. Today, at 72, she has only six left. Eating has become a daily chore, and Lemon wants desperately to be fitted for a set of dentures. "I've just been going from one dentist to another, but all of them tell me that our medical system doesn't cover it," Lemon said. "I don't have the money to get them." With the number of Americans over age 60 expected to increase by 70 percent by 2025, experts say dental care for seniors is a major issue - one that will only become more acute as the population ages.
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By Mary Gail Hare | October 14, 2007
The Harford County Health Department will open a dental clinic early next year that will provide care for some of the 7,000 children who are eligible for medical assistance but have little access to a dentist. The number of children receiving medical assistance has increased by 238 percent since 2000 and there could be many other eligible youths who are not enrolled in the program, said Dr. Andrew Bernstein, Harford County's health officer. "There is a real need for this service," Bernstein said.
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March 29, 2007
Dr. Jules J. Levin, a retired dentist, died March 20 of complications from Parkinson's disease at his Pikesville home. He was 75. Born in Baltimore and raised in Mount Washington, he was a 1948 City College graduate and earned a psychology degree at Western Maryland College, now McDaniel College. He then received a degree from the University of Maryland Dental School. He served in the U.S. Public Health Service and worked at Coast Guard stations in Cape May, N.J., and New London, Conn.
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By Susan Gvozdas | November 5, 2006
A dentist's office might be the last place you'd expect to find hundreds of pounds of Kit Kats, Skittles, Tootsie Rolls and Dum-Dums. But in the days after Halloween, Dr. Mairead O'Reilly takes it in by the bag and box. In hopes of keeping children from overdosing on their Halloween hauls, the Annapolis dentist has offered to take it off their hands. She pays $1 per pound of candy and then donates an equal amount (and then some) to a different charity each year. Last year, she took in 1,100 pounds, the record since she started the program in 2001.
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By Susan Gvozdas | November 5, 2006
A dentist's office might be the last place you'd expect to find hundreds of pounds of Kit Kats, Skittles, Tootsie Rolls and Dum-Dums. But in the days after Halloween, Dr. Mairead O'Reilly takes it in by the bag and box. In hopes of keeping children from overdosing on their Halloween hauls, the Annapolis dentist has offered to take it off their hands. She pays $1 per pound of candy and then donates an equal amount (and then some) to a different charity each year. Last year, she took in 1,100 pounds, the record since she started the program in 2001.
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By JUSTIN FENTON | July 29, 2006
When state police responded to a report that a patient had assaulted his Harford County dentist, they went straight to the frazzled man in the parking lot. Police arrested Aaron Abraham Newman, 34, of Havre de Grace on Tuesday afternoon after he told troopers that while he was being fitted for a mold for dentures he had a panic attack because he has a phobia of dentists. According to charging documents, Newman was having an impression of his mouth taken at Forest Hill Family & Cosmetic Dentistry in the first block of Colgate Drive when he became agitated.
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By FREDERICK N. RASMUSSEN | March 8, 2006
Dr. Donald Tiemeyer Frey, a retired Towson dentist who enjoyed waterfowl hunting, died of heart and lung failure Thursday at Suburban Hospital in Bethesda. The Homeland resident was 88. Dr. Frey was born and raised in Catonsville and graduated in 1934 from Catonsville High School. He attended the Johns Hopkins University for a year before entering the University of Maryland Dental School, from which he graduated in 1941. He joined the U.S. Public Health Service that year. After a two-year internship at the old U.S. Public Health Service Hospital in Wyman Park, he was assigned as a dentist at the Coast Guard yard in Curtis Bay. He concluded his service with the rank of lieutenant at Mayport, Fla., in 1946.