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CAKE DANGER The office “cake culture” is fuelling obesity and dental problems says the Royal College of Surgeons. They suggest workers should ditch the doughnuts and opt for fruit, nuts or cheese. They say this could help reduce the nearly 65,000 adults who require hospital treatment for tooth decay every year as well as removing temptation from the nation’s dieters. Source: BBC


TAKE A BREAK Dentists don’t take enough breaks at work and don’t drink enough. A survey by Dentists’ Provident found less than 40 per cent of dentists don’t stop for lunch while more than 60 per cent take no break at all. Seventy per cent drank only half a litre or less of water daily with more than half admitting they didn’t drink anything else during the day. Dentists’ Provident recommended taking a short break every hour.


GUN CONTROL A 72-year-old Ohio man reportedly accidentally shot himself in the hand after taking a (legally held) loaded pistol to his dental appointment. While under nitrous oxide sedation, it’s believed he reached for his ringing mobile phone but accidentally grabbed his gun instead. Police later advised him to leave his shooter at home next time he was being sedated.


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ACROSS 1. and 20 across, film musical about sadistic dentist and killer plant (6,4,2,7)


8. Victors (9) 9. Spoken word vocal (3) 10. Perform surgery (7) 11. Japanese cuisine (5) 12. Tooth protection (6) 13. Fee (6) 16. Principal concern of dentistry (5) 18. 1970s Austin car (7) 19. Party of Mandela and Zuma (3) 20. (see 1) 21. Temperance (10)


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1. Dairy sugar (7) 2. Thomas Cook (6,6) 3. French astronomer and mathematician (7)


4. Nocturnal grunt (5) 5. Band of Gallagher brothers (5) 6. 1970s Ford car (5) 7.


Article of nightwear (8,4)


14. Hinged trailing edge (7) 15. Lady of loose morals (7) 16. The sound of a guitar (5) 17. Weapon of mass destruction (1-4) 18. High-ranking Buddhist saint (5)


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