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Bad breath is everywhere: home, school and office, yet it remains the proverbial 2,000-pound gorilla unacknowledged in the room.

Billions of dollars are spent on toothpaste, mouthwash, mints and gums to mask or extinguish this social plague, which claims 12-year-olds, menopausal women and octogenarians among its victims. But don’t expect the subject to come up in conversation.

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Katz, with dental and bacteriology degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles, has turned a family emergency into a successful second career, trying to sweeten the smell of the planet one mouth at a time. After working in the 1990s with chemical giant DuPont to perfect an oral rinse and toothpaste to attack the main cause of bad breath sulphur-producing bacteria in the mouth the TheraBreath products are now available in Canada.

“It attacks the bacteria, which produce the sulphur compounds,'’ claimed Katz of clinical trials that repeatedly showed a 98 per cent elimination rate of the compounds.

Katz’ bad breath blitz began, ironically enough for a dentist, not with a patient, but when his then 13-year-daughter came home in tears after being told by schoolmates that her breath was bad.

source: canada.com

Mmm…interesting. Never heard of this product before…

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Pulp Chamber Pictures in association with Xylocaine Studio presents

“The Dental Student”

Cast: Tyler Verhaeghe, Sam Tsai, Hussein Khimani
Flim: attached below

This short documentary film “The Dental Student” depicting the daily life of a dental student at University of Alberta Dentistry was proposed by my dentistry classmate, Tyler Verhaeghe. He goes to church regularly, and his church is running a campaigne to raise $300,000 for an AIDS orphanage in Zambia, Africa, and so one of the things the church planned was a film festival which is tonight (January 21, 2006). The festival will showcase films produced by anyone in the young adult group of the church and the admission is $20. All the money from the admissions goes toward the orphanage. So Tyler came up with this idea of patient-dentist relationship and got me involved in the film. I was the first person and the only person he initially asked to help produce this film. The film turns out to be…oh, well, all I can say is…yes, my “dear” friend, Tyler, YOU SET ME UP! So, you’d better win at this film festival after all that I had done and sacrificed!! The film records the real but fun side of dentistry. This humorous video will be a blast at the festival…hopefully. Gotta watch it.

In fact, on the day of filming, another of my classmates, Hussein, came up and decided to join our production. We have to thank him, because it made the filming so much easier with three people’s effort. This hilarious short film depicts the day to day challenges that a UofA dental student has to face and overcome to become a professional dentist. I hope you enjoy the show! The video is attached below.

View this funny “The Dental Student” video clip..

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