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Oral, Eye, and Hearing Health: Assessment, Treatment, and Equity
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... The first effective treatment for deafness Detecting Hearing Loss in Infants and severe hearing loss, the device converts sounds Detection of the auditory brainstem response 1972 into electrical currents that directly stimulate the (ABR) revolutionized hearing tests in infants auditory nerve to produce hearing, bypassing when it was introduced in 1970.
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... Many other cities and towns followed suit 1991 imaging of all the major structures inside the eye. over the next several decades, and by 1992 the By providing rapid, simple, precise, and non- majority of Americans were receiving fluoridated Invention of LASIK Eye Surgery invasive mapping at the microscopic level, water, contributing to a widespread decline in Invented in 1991, Laser-Assisted In Situ particularly the macula and optic nerve, the dental carries (tooth decay)
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... The approach used by sectors and a renewed universal commitment to about the difficulty in distinguishing voices from Invisalign and, subsequently, similar providers, ® tackling these persistent and systemic problems. background noise, a phenomenon called "the relies on an incremental series of transparent cocktail party problem." In 2012, researchers Free dental clinic held by volunteers from Remote developed a machine-learning computer program plastic aligners that gradually move the teeth into Area Medical in Los Angeles, CA (Shutterstock®)


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