He would accept Medicaid for oral surgery, which often meant treating lower-income people who popped up at emergency rooms and were transferred to him to do extractions and other procedures, she said.

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The statement said the merger might reduce the hospitals' incentives to improve the quality of specialist services, which include rheumatology, rehabilitation, general medicine, general surgery, geriatric medicine, dermatology, clinical haematology, oral and maxillofacial surgery, cardiology and palliative medicine.

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The machine is being tried for more applications such as thoracic procedures, neck surgery and oral cancer.

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One of the earliest texts 'The Chirurgia of Roger Frugard', which was written in Latin in Italy around 1180AD mentions oral cancer and suggests surgery.

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The FDA said exposure to topiramate in pregnancy "is likely to be associated with a two- to fivefold increased prevalence of oral clefts, " a defect of the mouth that can be later treated with surgery.

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