September 2007



	*Harry "Buzz" Waterston*

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This could save your life

Have you seen it?

There’s an e-mail circulating the Internet that tells people what to do if they’re all alone and experiencing extreme chest pains. It shows a cartoon picture of a heart that appears to be beating out of control and suggests that the pains you’re experiencing could be because you’re having a heart attack.

Then a couple of clicks away, a solution is provided. It tells you to cough really, really hard, as if your life depends upon it. Well, believe it or not, your life does depend upon it and this is one e-mail that’s right on the mark.

Here’s the scoop:

The chest pain described could very well be the result of a myocardial infarction (MI) due to a blockage in the right coronary artery (RCA). When this artery is blocked it can lead to a common type of heart attack.

This became extremely apparent to me when I worked in a catheterization lab where we performed countless coronary angiograms. I saw firsthand the effects of injecting dye as it momentarily replaced oxygen-rich blood in this particular vessel. If the heart rate dropped, we literally shouted into the patient’s ear “Cough!” This would increase their heart rate so the vessel could once again fill with blood, displace the dye, and resume a more normal beating pattern.

Here’s exactly what you need to do:

If you find yourself alone, fearful that you might be having a heart attack, you need to cough and then take a deep breath. Do this repeatedly until the chest pain subsides and you can do more. You should also chew an aspirin (unless you’re allergic to aspirin, of course) and take nitroglycerine if you have a cardiac history. And, immediately call 911 and tell them you may be having a heart attack and give them your exact location.

I hope you’ll pass this important e-letter along to your family and friends. This information could, quite literally, save their lives.

How best to reach us

We have two incoming lines and two lines for outgoing calls. The main incoming line is 610-891-1718. If that number is busy, your call automatically “rolls over” to a second incoming line. If you see that we’ve called you from any other number, please don’t phone back on that number, since those numbers don’t always ring through. Please remember to use the main 610-891-1718 number. Thanks.

Smiles for Life wrap-up

Smiles for Life 2007 ended on June 30. I’m happy to report that my office raised $7150. My thanks go to my team for all the time and energy they gave to this cause, to Discus Dental for donating whitening materials, and to Leo DentaLab for making many of the bleaching trays we used.

Half of the monies we raised will be distributed to over 200 children’s causes through Garth Brooks’ Teammates for Kids Foundation. The other half will stay right in the neighborhood and go to Media’s Hometown Senior Center. As always, every penny goes to charity.

Tooth Fairy of the Future

Used to be, the “tooth fairy” left a quarter under the pillow of a youngster losing a baby tooth.

But now Babytooth Technologies, Inc. is making it possible for that baby tooth to potentially rescue its owner from hereditary, acquired and degenerative illnesses, years later, in adulthood. Thanks to research conducted by Dr. Sontag Shi, a pediatric dentist, a startling discovery was made: living baby teeth contain viable stem cells with the ability to form nerve, bone, and cartilage cells. These SHED cells (Stem cells from Human Exfoliated Deciduous Teeth) offer the future potential to treat severe illnesses including Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases, diabetes, heart disease, and spinal cord injury.

Located in the Green Mountains of Vermont, Babytooth Technologies, Inc. is the first company in the nation to provide preservation services for these unique SHED cells for parents who wish to store viable baby teeth. FDA registered, with over 15 years of life science preservation experience, the laboratory is exceptionally qualified to preserve fragile, precious SHED cells.

More information is available via their website, www.BabytoothUSA.com, or by calling 1-877-736-0508.

Who ever would have guessed the tooth fairy had plans for the future?

IMPORTANT! To remain viable (alive enough) to yield stem cells, a baby tooth must be treated with special care the moment it is removed from the mouth:

• Contact and arrangement must be made with Babytooth Technologies prior to loss of the baby tooth.

• Follow the directions in the Cryo-Tooth™ kit to collect and pack baby's tooth for delivery, inform Babytooth that the tooth is on the way and follow overnight shipping instructions.

• Under normal circumstances the cell life of a tooth is completely dead within 30 minutes of being removed from its socket. But the Babytooth hypothermic transport system provides adequate nourishment to sustain a tooth for over 72 hours.

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The Dalai Lama’s wisdom

? Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.

? When you lose, don’t lose the lesson.

? Follow the three Rs:

Respect for self

Respect for others

Responsibility for all your actions.

? Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

? Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.

? Don’t let a little dispute injure a great relationship.

? When you realize you’ve made a mistake, take immediate steps to correct it.

? Spend some time alone every day.

? Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

? Remember that silence is some-times the best answer.

? Live a good, honorable life. Then, when you get older and think back, you’ll be able to enjoy it a second time.

? A loving atmosphere in your home is the foundation for your life.

? In disagreements with loved ones, deal only with the current situation. Don’t bring up the past.

? Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.

? Be gentle with the earth.

? Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.

? Remember that the best relationship is one in which your love for each other exceeds your need for each other.

? Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.

? Approach love and cooking with reckless abandon.

I’d like to add a personal note to the above: be as quick to compliment those around you when they do something well as you are to point out when they do something wrong. I’m spending my life trying to get better at this.