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JIM DURKIN: Minnesota To The Philippines — It Wasn’t About The Numbers But …

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“It’s not about the numbers.” That was the mantra heard daily — sometimes several times a day — from Dr. Bernard Quebral and some of the other 100-plus Minnesota volunteers on a medical mission last week to Mariveles District Hospital in the Philippines. It was heard Sunday after a “soft opening” that was meant to screen 300 patients who were there for surgeries that …

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JIM DURKIN: Minnesota To The Philippines — Poor Oral Hygiene Habits Force Dentists To Take The Last Resort: Extraction

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Out came the teeth, 12 in all. The extractions would at least temporarily stop the pain of one Filipino man, but it was emblematic of a nationwide crisis that yanked at the heart of an American dentist. “He’s 28. He has two children, and this was the first time he had been to a dentist,” said Dr. Kordie Reinhold, a Minneapolis dentist. “I …

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