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• Three Tips To Quit Smoking Before Your Dental Implant Surgery

  22 October 2014

  It's no secret: smoking causes long-term health damage, including an elevated riskfor lung cancer, heart disease, stroke and COPD. It can also have a profound effect on your mouth. Smokers have an increased risk of gum disease, which can cause you to lose your teeth. While dental implantscan restore your smile, the procedure may fail in up to 15% of smokers, versus just over 1% of non-smokers. If you're planning to quit smoking before your dental implant surgery, here are some tips that can help.

• Adverse Reactions From Beta Blockers That May Harm Your Health

  21 October 2014

  If you have high blood pressure, a cardiac arrhythmia or experience chest pain, your doctor may have prescribed beta blocker medications such as propranolol, metoprolol or nadolol. While these drugs help manage hypertension, alleviate episodes of angina and regulate your heart beat, they can lead to unpleasant side effects that have the potential of harming your health. Here are three significant side effects that may occur if you take beta blockers.

• Reducing Inflammation: Why Vitamin D Is Important For Men's Health

  21 October 2014

  After surgery, your orthopedic surgeon might ask you to get more vitamin D. Vitamin D's job is to help bones pull in more calcium, which can help with healing and overall bone structure after orthopedic procedures through a clinic like Surgery Center of Kenai​. But vitamin D goes a step further and also helps improve inflammation in your body, which is important for recovery and overall health. You can certainly take a vitamin D supplement, although if you consume lots of vitamin D-rich foods, you might not have to.

• Cataract Prevention: What You Need To Know

  20 October 2014

  Taking care of your eyes may not always be your top priority. In fact, you probably take your eyes and vision for granted more often than not. However, because proper vision is so important to your daily life, now is the time to start getting proactive about your eye health. Cataracts are a common affliction among people as they age and the only cure is cataract surgery. Any optometrist will tell you that the onset of cataracts can be prevented (or at least delayed) as long as the patient knows exactly what to do to protect their eyes.

• Ordering Your Medication For Delivery

  17 October 2014

  For decades, the only way most people could obtain prescription medication was to have their doctor call in the order to a local pharmacy and then they would pick it up once it was filled. Now pharmacies also fill prescriptions based on an actual written version, but they still call the doctor's office to verify. In recent years, automated telephone systems have allowed customers to call in their prescription refills and pick them up rather quickly.