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Dental Records Used to ID Katrina Victims (AP via Yahoo! News)
The three tiny pieces of film were crucial. Side by side on a light box, the X-rays matched perfectly with the digital images on the computer screen, down to each filling, crown and bridge.

Workers begin identifying Katrina victims by dental records (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
ST. GABRIEL, La. (AP) The three tiny pieces of film were crucial. Side by side on a light box, the X-rays matched perfectly with the digital images on the computer screen, down to each filling, crown and even the bridge work.

Medicaid provider will add dental (Boston Globe)
Network Health of Cambridge, which provides health insurance for 72,000 low-income people through the state Medicaid program, said it is adding a no-cost dental benefit for its adult members.

Ice-Encased Body Thought to Be WWII Airman (AP via Yahoo! News)
An ice-encased body believed to be a World War II airman who crashed in 1942 was chipped out of a Sierra Nevada glacier and taken to a laboratory for identification, a deputy coroner said Thursday.

Dental records used to ID Katrina victims (Sify News)
The three tiny pieces of film were crucial. Side by side on a light box, the X-rays matched perfectly with the digital images on the computer screen, down to each filling, crown and bridge. "We just got another one!" forensic dentist David Senn announced, poking his head outside a small trailer where a handful of people pored over computer images of teeth.

Experts get first look at serviceman encased in glacier (USA Today)
A glacier-encased body believed to be a World War II airman who crashed into the Sierra Nevada in 1942 was flown off the mountain and into a Fresno laboratory for identification. The body was chipped out of the ice that had entombed it on the side of the 13,710-foot Mount Mendel.

Fifth Dental Hygiene Program In New Jersey Underway Sponsored by Delta Dental Of New Jersey (E-Dental .com)
Parsippany, NJ - With help from a $240,000 grant from the Delta Dental of New Jersey Foundation, the fifth dental hygiene program in New Jersey is underway at Burlington County College (BCC). The college now offers a two-year program leading to an Associate of Applied Science degree, with a major in dental hygiene.

Katrina victims ID'd with dental records (Sun-Sentinel)
ST. GABRIEL, La. The three tiny pieces of film were crucial. Side by side on a light box, the X-rays matched perfectly with the digital images on the computer screen, down to each filling, crown and bridge.

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