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Toothache

State cuts have dental patients hurting.

by Eve Silberman

posted 2/27/2010

It depresses LaShun Cooper to watch one of her front teeth turn a little blacker each day. It makes her feel worse to know that when the tooth goes, the partial denture next to it will probably fall out. Cooper, who's thirty-six, hates the thought of going through life with a gap in her mouth. "It's not supposed to matter what people think, but it's a big part

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