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CDC Says Lead Levels in Dental Crowns Are a “Highly Unlikely†Health Risk to Adults
A sample of the crown and bridge work available from China Dental Outsourcing
From the American Dental Association:
When news of lead contamination in an outsourced dental crown hit the presses in late February, the ADA called on the nation’s leading health agencies to address safety concerns raised by the reports. Association leaders are gratified by their responses.
The CDC explained that the level of lead reported in the crown in the media reports —approximately 200 parts per million—is “highly unlikely” to be a health risk to an adult.
“Such small amounts of lead as reported, are extremely unlikely to cause adverse health effects in adults,” the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told the ADA in its response. “Given the current information, CDC does not recommend that individuals defer needed oral procedures or have existing prostheses removed.”
That said, the CDC noted that it recommends against the unnecessary use of lead in consumer products, including dental crowns.
“I’m relieved that the CDC sees no threat to patients based upon the trace amount of lead reported,” said ADA President Mark Feldman. “We are still conducting our own test of dental prostheses and are gratified that CDC has offered to interpret any health impact of the results”.
So, patients will NOT need crowns which have been outsourced to China replaced. But, how would they ever know if their crowns or other prostheses have been made overseas in the first place – and to what standards.
Flap bets there will be state by state legislation requiring disclosure by dentists to their patients on where their prostheses are manufactured and the materials used.
In the meantime, outsourcing will continue but with increasing scrutiny by the feds and the protestations of American dental laboratories and patients alike.
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John McCain Watch: “Banking” on Jeremiah Wright
The North Carolina GOP ad featuring Jeremiah Wright Flap is a “bank shot on top of a bank shot.”
Obama’s relationship to Wright is relevant to his judgment, character, and — in his explanations of what he knew and when about Wright — his honesty. Are we to ignore all this because Wright is black? Are only videos of white pastors damning America fit for airwaves? It’s not Wright’s race that matters, but his racist and anti-American rantings.
We understand McCain’s desire to steer well clear of any racial foul-play, but there’s none in the ad and he’s foolish to be pushed into the position of speech cop for every other Republican in the country. It’s unclear what McCain’s principled standard for criticism of Obama is. The Illinois senator has a closer relationship to Wright than former terrorist William Ayers, but McCain has seen fit to condemn the latter association.
From now until November, any Republican criticizing Wright will be accused of playing the race card. It’s a way to shut down discussion of Wright’s poisonous worldview, and of what it says about Obama. These rules stack the deck and stifle legitimate debate. Republicans must reject them.
Is McCain afraid of taking on Obama’s religious mentor Jeremiah Wright BECAUSE Wright is black?
Why did McCain jump all over Flap’s friend Soren Dayton for merely twittering a link to a Jeremiah Wright video but yesterday went directly after William Ayers?
Please…….
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Challenges Obama to Lincoln-Douglas Debate
Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., waves to supporters as she and Sen. Evan Bayh , D-Ind., arrive ata rally at the Cove Ballpark in South Bend, Ind. Saturday, April 26, 2008.
It didn’t take long and Flap was right about the Clinton Cabal not allowing Barack Obama to duck a debate before the May 6 Indiana and North Carolina primary elections.
Democratic rivals Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton turned up the rhetoric Saturday in their increasingly heated primary battle as she issued a new debate challenge and he complained of a race that’s largely been reduced to trivia while working families feel economic pain.
Clinton took the debate dispute to a new level, challenging Obama to face off with her in a debate without a moderator, Lincoln-Douglas style.
“Just the two of us, going for 90 minutes, asking and answering questions, we’ll set whatever rules seem fair,” Clinton said while campaigning in South Bend.
Her campaign made the offer formal with a letter to the Obama campaign. Obama aides said they were studying the letter.
Team Obama MAY try to stonewall the debate issue but will the MSM let him off the hook?
But, time is short between now and May 6th.
Flap says Obama will stall and ultimately say no while the Clinton Cabal screams – “QUACK QUACK.”
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Barack Obama Watch: No debates Before May 6 Indiana Primary
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Barack Obama Watch: No debates Before May 6 Indiana Primary
Michael Ramirez on Barack Obama
News Item: No more debates, Obama tells Fox News
Chris Wallace: Why are you ducking another debate with Senator Clinton?
Obama: I’m not ducking one. We’ve had 21 (laughs)…We want to make sure we’re talking to as many folks possible on the ground, taking questions from voters.
Wallace: No debates between now and Indiana?
Obama: We’re not going to have debates between now and Indiana.
So, now Obama wants to talk with those rubes in Indiana that are “BITTER” and “CLINGY” to their guns and religion?
Well, rather than debate Hillary anyway.
Somehow Flap does NOT think the Clinton Cabal will let Barry get away with this one.
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Hillary Clinton Watch: Forcing Hillary Out
Gary Varvel on the Tortoise and the Hill
The African American block of Democrat House members are playing their race card in an attempt to force Hillary Clinton out of the Presidential race.
“If this party is perceived by people as having gone into a back room somewhere and brokered a nominee, that would not be good for our party,” House Majority Whip James E. Clyburn (S.C.), the highest ranking African American in Congress, warned yesterday. “I’m telling you, if this continues on its current course, [the damage] is going to be irreparable.”
Well, Hillary is NOT going anywhere. She and Bill know that if Obama is the disparaged nominee that Hillary will be resurrected after four years of a McCain presidency (McCain due to age constraints REALLY will only serve one term).
If Hillary wins Indiana while holding her own in North Carolina, the race will not be over until the convention.
But, the pleas for Hillary to withdraw will intensify:
- “If you have any, any kind of loyalty to the Democratic Party, perhaps you need to rethink your strategy and bow out gracefully in order to save this party from a disastrous end in November,” Rep. William Lacy Clay (Mo.), an African American Obama supporter, said in an appeal to Clinton.
Hillary will NOT withdraw until the Fat Lady sings and she is NOT even in the building.
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Day By Day by Chris Muir April 26, 2008
News Item: Bill: Stop selling Playboy, Penthouse on base
Concerned that the military is selling pornography in exchange stores in spite of a ban, one lawmaker has introduced a bill to clean up the matter.
“Our troops should not see their honor sullied so that the moguls behind magazines like Playboy and Penthouse can profit,†said Rep. Paul Broun, R-Ga., unveiling his House bill April 16.
His Military Honor and Decency Act would amend a provision of the 1997 Defense Authorization Act that banned sales of “sexually explicit material†on military bases.
There are plenty of opportunities for military personnel to procure these materials “off” base if they desire and the law is clear (tested through the U.S. Supreme Court).
And, we are not talking about the old pin-up photo – but sexually explicit materials.
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See-Dubyas terrorist-Democrat chart
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Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain accused North Carolina’s Republican Party of being “out of touch with reality” over its refusal to pull an advertisement criticizing Democrat Barack Obama. In an NBC interview aired on Friday, the Arizona
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While “Tom Coburn may be many things to people who are on the liberal side of the ledger,” McCain said, he isn’t the same as somebody who an unrepentant member of an organization that was responsible for bombings and killings.
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Team Obama: Everything That Hurts Us Is a Distraction
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Way to go, Bill……
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Barack’s problem is social, cultural and ideological.
Increasingly, he is seen not as a man of the middle, but as radical chic, a man of the liberal and leftist elite who confides to closed-door meetings in San Francisco that folks in Pennsylvania clin
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Incompetent terrorists indeed…..
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