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Choosing a dentist
Louis Napolitano, D.M.D. The American Dental Association offers these suggestions: Ask family, friends, neighbors or co-workers for recommendations. Ask your family physician or local pharmacist. If you’re moving, your current dentist may be able to make arecommendation. Call or write your local or state dental society. Your local andstate dental societies also may be…
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Choosing a chiropractor
Dr. Ira Shapiro of Plaza Chiropractic Center poses with Shani Davis What is a chiropractor? Chiropractors are well-trained doctors specializing in the structure and function of the spine and joints of the body. Chiropractors receive a doctor of chiropractic degree and their training involves intensive studies of spinal adjusting or manipulation techniques and advanced radiology.…
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Choosing a dentist for your child
Dr. Kerry Gallagher Moran, D.M.D., (r) of Adult and Pediatric Dental Studio, demonstrates a typical knee to knee position for an infant/toddler oral health screening. What is the difference between a pediatric dentist and a family dentist? Pediatric dentists are the pediatricians of dentistry. A pediatric dentist has two to three years of rigorous specialty…
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Choosing an MRI facility
What is an MRI? Magnetic resonance imaging is a state-of-the-art technology that uses a magnetic field and radio waves to show detailed pictures from within the body. Used most commonly to show the brain, spine, and joints, this painless technique also helps to uncover tumors or other abnormalities within the body’s soft tissue and organs.…
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Buying a generator
Storms and power failures go hand-in-hand in many neighborhoods at any time of year. Antiquated power grids and substations — many designed more than 50 years ago — can’t keep up with increased consumer electricity consumption, especially during the hot summer months. Mature trees tower precariously over power lines, often toppling onto live wires in…
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Brain training vs. tutoring
Learning Rx Is tutoring what your child really needs? Your child has difficulty in third-grade math. You send her to a tutor. The tutor works diligently for several weeks with her on her grade-level math concepts and assignments. She goes on to pass the third grade with Bs. So far so good. Summer comes and…
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Knicks’ star Smith lends support at school’s anti-bullying program
By MAUREEN DAYE Correspondent J.R. Smith of the New York Knicks joins Millstone Township Middle School teacher Audrey Ferraro at a June 4 anti-bullying event. Smith attended the school and returned to see a performance by students who wrote poetry about the issue of bullying. New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith returned to his hometown…
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TV ads may be fraudulent use of FEMA funds
Yes, we were stronger than the storm, but not stronger than the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and not strong enough to withstand the flood of TV ads paid for with $25 million in federal disaster aid that should have gone to victims (“Christie Gets Star Billing in State’s Tourism Ads,” Asbury Park Press, May…
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