You probably think making something invisible is a product of science fiction or fantasy. Not so! When it comes to your teeth and creating the perfect smile, invisibility is reality thanks to Invisalign and Incognito technology! Your smile is a reflection of you, that's why Dr. Amir Davoody and his staff at Greater Houston Orthodontics are committed to using the best approach for making your smile the best it can be. Brushing and Flossing It's more important than ever to brush and floss regularly when you have braces, so the teeth and gums are healthy during orthodontic ...

Every day that you wait is another day that you could be enjoying a healthy, beautiful smile! At Garrett-Boyd Orthodontics, modern technology and personalized care are the ingredients that ensure your smile will last a lifetime. Choose What's Right For You Orthodontists Dr. Richard Boyd and Dr. Fred Garrett - with 2 locations in Sugar Land and Rosenberg, TX - offer a variety of solutions including traditional metal braces, Damon Braces, clear braces, Invisalign and Invisalign Teen ( the "brace-less" alternative to straight teeth) in addition to lingual invisible ...

Committed to providing his patients with the newest, most effective orthodontic treatments and technology, Dr, Brian Chamberlain of Supersmile Orthodontics in Las Vegas, NV understands what his patients are going through during their orthodontic treatment because he went through the exact same process while he had braces himself. It's a fact: patients act differently when they have the confidence of a smile that Dr. Chamberlain had a hand in creating. Technology and Treatment That Suits YOU When it comes to choosing the right orthodontic practice to help you or your ...

Close your eyes for a moment and think of the perfect smile. Now think of how great that perfect smile will look on you! A healthy, perfect smile isn't a dream. Not any more. Orthodontists Dr. Kohlman Apt and Dr. Christine Ferrell, with two orthodontic facilities in Herndon and Ashburn, VA can make the perfect smile a reality for you! Apt Orthodontics offers a wide-range of services tailor-made to suit your needs, your budget, and your schedule including ceramic aesthetic brackets, Invisalign and Invisalign Teen, Self-Ligating/frictionless brackets and lingual braces that ...

The Suffolk Community College Foundation will host an evening of dancing, dining, entertainment and goodwill as it celebrates student success and the accomplishments of the College, its staff, faculty and friends. The event will honor and recognize Terri Alessi-Miceli, President of HIA-LI, the recognized voice for business on Long Island, among an elite group of business and community leaders. The black-tie gala event will be held Friday, April 5, 2013 at the prestigious Oheka Castle in Huntington, NY. Information for tickets, sponsorships and donations are available at ...

Fueled by provider requests and the pending meaningful use Stage 2 requirements, KLAS completes their study into clinical usability of leading EMRs. After months of research, the report, entitled Acute Care EMR Usability 2013, Beyond Counting Clicks, published earlier today. "Provider requests for this data have been steadily increasing," said Colin Buckley, report author. "The overarching question providers want answered is which EMR best supports efficient and effective patient care. This report answers that question and finds that there is more to usability ...

Call center services provider, AnswerNow, recently returned from attending the 26th Annual StarTel National User Group (SNUG) conference. This year's event was held March 3-6, 2013 at the Hyatt Regency Newport Beach, California. SNUG consists of outsourcing call center service providers and health systems using Startel call center equipment. Ranging in size from three to 100+ seats, members work together to solve business challenges and leverage opportunities. The annual SNUG conference provides an excellent forum for learning and networking. AnswerNow actively participates ...

The Institute for Management Studies (IMS), a leading organization in executive leadership and management development, will be holding a full-day seminar titled "Achieving Extraordinary Results: Models for Innovative Thinking" on Tuesday, April 9th, in Los Angeles, California. The seminar will take place at The Double Tree Hotel, 120 S Los Angeles Street, starting at 9:00 AM. IMS may be a familiar name in executive management seminars. Four weeks prior, on March 7th, they held a seminar on "communications". Successful organizations operate on the ...

School Bus Logistics, LLC, a Denver-based transportation consulting and support business, saved Littleton Public Schools (LPS) $125,000 for the 2012-2013 academic year by evaluating the district's busing routes, implementing new software and eliminating unnecessary routes. "We hired School Bus Logistics to help implement our new routing software and assist our routers in developing new routes for the start of school," says Scott French, transportation director for LPS. "Their knowledge and experience in developing safe and efficient routes is unsurpassed." School ...

SWDTech is gearing up to debut Pixel Noir, a retro RPG that's "sure to scratch the itch that so many gamers have - finding a gritty 16-bit RPG that doesn't spoon-feed them a cute, cartoony game," says co-owner Kunal Majmudar. Players experience the game as The Detective, a good man who's suffered from bad luck. "Once an up-and-coming police detective, a bad lead has led to catastrophic consequences for him and his career," says lead writer Jennifer Keating. "Years later, you help him build his career and redeem himself as a private investigator." ...

In 2012, Anti-Job Poaching Pacts in Ohio garnered much attention. As of January 2013, 58 communities in Cleveland's Cuyahoga County signed a "no job poaching" pact. In the Columbus metro area, 14 communities did the same. However, some communities such as Upper Arlington and Dublin in Central Ohio and Middleburg Heights around Cleveland rejected or have held out signing an agreement. Some challenged whether they are legally binding. Does this mean an unraveling of anti-job poaching pacts? Unfortunately, whether formal agreements proliferate or not, the new reality ...

With tax season at its height, it can be very tempting for individuals filing their returns or even professional tax preparers to fudge the numbers a bit for a better refund. While many slight misstatements go overlooked by the IRS, when the agency does initiate an enforcement action, they come with everything they have. If you've been accused of fraud or making false statements on a tax return, you face potentially dire consequences and should contact a taxpayer defense attorney as soon as possible. Penalties range from 20 percent of tax underpayment to five years imprisonment Filing ...

When people think of dangerous jobs, they may first think about police officers or firefighters. Despite the well-known risks of these professions, neither firefighters nor police officers are working in the most dangerous jobs in the United States. In fact, these two occupations do not even make the list of the top 10 most dangerous jobs in America. The list, provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, is compiled by calculating the number of deaths per 100,000 workers. Some of the jobs on the list may surprise you. 10. Taxi drivers - Between vehicle accidents ...

A person who can no longer work due to injury or illness may apply to the Social Security Administration for disability benefits. The application process, however, is often unsuccessful in the early stages. Nearly two-thirds of applications are rejected initially. This does not mean the quest for benefits is over, but it does mean that many people must appeal in order to obtain the Social Security Disability benefits they need. For some applicants, an on-the-record decision, or OTR, is a worthwhile option during the appeals process. Types of Appeals When a claimant ...

Boston tax and estate planning law firm Cushing & Dolan, P.C. is proud to announce, Medicaid planning attorney Todd Lutsky will be the featured speaker at the upcoming Medicaid Planning Seminar, sponsored by the Foundation for Continuing Education. The seminar will discuss Federal Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 and related rule changes, life estates as a planning tool and much more. Todd E. Lutsky, Esq., LLM Boston attorney Todd Lutsky began his legal career concentrating in the preparation of estate plans. Since then, attorney Lutsky has expanded his practice to ...

Most Americans recognize that few things are as important as the quality of care we provide to our elderly citizens in hospitals, nursing homes and assisted living facilities. The increases in our lifespan because of improvements in medical science, environmental protection and improved safety don't mean much without quality of life to go along with greater quantity. Moreover, as our lives have lengthened, more and more Americans live long enough to need facilities to provide skilled assistance with the activities of daily living, nursing care, and even medical care. Enter ...

At midday on Sunday 21st April, a 41-gun salute will sound out across Hyde Park to commemorate the 87th birthday of Queen Elizabeth II. A spectacular show of pomp and ceremony, the Queen's Birthday Gun Salutes marks the only time horses can perform a full gallop in Hyde Park - with a ton and a half of cannon in tow. Along with other uniquely British traditions such as Trooping the Colour, Changing of the Guard and the Ceremony of the Keys, the Birthday Gun Salutes attract thousands of visitors to the capital every year. Taking place on Her Majesty's actual birthday, ...

Everyone knew that tennis was a rich man's sport but Ramesh Kris Nathan and his company, BaselineAgent, is redefining the word "rich". Mr. Nathan, who has a current net worth of approximately US $16.2 billion, founded the company in 2008, and never imagined that his company would become the empire that it has, a major player in technology and software and the world's largest sports management company. Mr. Nathan, who played on the professional tennis tour for just over ten years, recognized that there was something missing in the sport. Something to simplify ...

The creators of "Newborn Care 101 - What Parents Need To Know", have announced an update to their DVD and free newborn care information website. The website, www.newborncare101.com, offers a wide variety of information for new parents including SIDS risk and prevention, feeding, vaccinations, colic as well as a popular Frequently Asked Questions section. There is also a downloadable list of what to bring to the hospital when having a newborn and what to have at home for your newborn's arrival. "Overall, not much changes from year to year with regards to ...

Be it laundry detergent, paint, ketchup or salad dressing, even before it leaves the production line, gravity begins tugging at it, trying to separate the mixture into different parts. As products separate, they can become watery or gooey. To combat product collapse and increase shelf life, manufactures use stabilizers. The Advanced Colloids Experiment (ACE-M-1) is designed to help researchers understand how to optimize stabilizers to extend product shelf life, while also cutting development, production and transportation costs. ACE-M-1 launched to the International ...

The following research from Columbia University Medical Center and NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital is being presented at the 65th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN), March 16-23, 2013, in San Diego. For additional information, or to arrange an interview, please contact Karin Eskenazi at 212-342-0508 or ket2116@columbia.edu, or Christina Stolfo at 212-305-5587 or chs9135@nyp.org ORAL PRESENTATIONS Deoxypyrimidine Monophosphates Treatment for Thymidine Kinase 2 Deficiency Authors: Caterina Garone, Beatriz Garcia-Diaz, Valentina Emmanuele, Saba ...

Milan, 15 March 2013 – A genetic score based on PCa risk-associated single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) is an independent predictor of prostate biopsy outcomes, suggest the results of a new study conducted by a group from the Department of Urology Huashan Hospital, Fudan University in Shanghai, China. The authors, who relate their findings to the male population in China, also suggest that this score can improve predictive performance of existing clinical variables, especially for patients with a total PSA levels < 20 ng/ml "Genetic susceptibility to prostate cancer ...

Milan, 15 March 2013 - Men who participate in biennial PSA based screening have a lower risk of being diagnosed as well as dying from prostate cancer up to 9 years after their last PSA test, according to the results of a new study to be presented at the 28th Annual EAU Congress in Milan A joint Swedish-UK study aimed to examined the risk of developing prostate cancer after last invitation to screening. This investigation follows up on previous publication from the Göteborg randomized screening trial (part of ERSPC) by the same group which showed that biennial PSA screening ...

LOS ALAMOS, N.M., March 15, 2013 — Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team will present more than two dozen posters and talks next week during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas. "ChemCam has performed flawlessly in its first six months, providing more than a gigabyte of exciting new information about the Red Planet," said Los Alamos National Laboratory planetary scientist Roger Wiens, Principal Investigator of the ChemCam Team. "Since Curiosity's successful landing on Mars on August 6, 2012, ChemCam has ...

Milan, 16 March 2013 - At the 28th Annual EAU Congress currently ongoing in Milan until Tuesday, W. Tan and colleagues presented their study on neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy which showed that epigenetic changes are potential key drivers in the development of chemo resistance in bladder cancer. Neoadjuvant cisplatin-based chemotherapy is recommended for patients with muscle invasive bladder cancer. Cisplatin-based regimes have similar efficacy with complete response in 30% a survival advantage if 16% (HR, 0.84;CI 0.72 to 0.99), wrote Tan of the UCL, Dept. ...