11.   Because of poverty, alcoholism, a taste for sweets and bad dental care, many colored people in the Cape have no teeth.

12.   Boston-based Gillette also makes Parker and Paper Mate pens, Braun electric shavers and Oral-B dental care products.

13.   Additional money is then put aside in a tax-free account to pay for routine expenses or prescription drugs, dental care and the like.

14.   But this is a book whose author describes trading sex for extensive free dental care, so it also has a distinctly mundane side.

15.   Cafe Joshua provides drug and alcohol counseling, emergency vision and dental care, legal services, mental health therapy, even makeovers.

16.   Child Health Plus still does not cover dental care, vision needs or hearing aids.

17.   Costa Rica has done some limited marketing for so-called medical tourism, touting its expertise in everything from transplants to dental care.

18.   Dental care, and thus dental records, a valuable tool in the developed world in identifying decomposed corpses, are virtually nonexistent in rural areas of Rwanda.

19.   Dentists have learned to play on this vanity and anxiety, encouraging dental care that is medically unnecessary but attractive to patients.

20.   Dental care is even more daunting because immigrants complain there are no emergency clinics offering inexpensive care when a toothache strikes.