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Healthy Partners Primary Care physicians Ovidiu Ghita, D.O. and Fulvia Banu, MD.
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Healthy Partners Primary Care Set For March 28th Event
Healthy Partners Primary Care has exciting news for Hallandale! They are proud to announce the opening of their brand new Healthy Partners Primary Care practice located at: 1724 East Hallandale Beach Blvd. Hallandale Beach, FL 33009 For over 20 years, the Healthy Partners team has been dedicated to bringing together health plans, physicians and patients to improve the health and wellness of seniors. Healthy Partners’ approach to patient care recognizes the complexities of care delivery and the need for true care coordination in the era of Medicare Advantage and Value Based Care health care plans. Healthy Partners is dedicated to consistently providing the services and support necessary for
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By Larry Blustein sfsuntimes@aol.com Sweetwater - A year ago this Friday, lives were changed forever. It was to be a $14.2 million pedestrian bridge that was supposed to open in 2019 as a safe way for students to cross busy Southwest Eighth Street. The 174-foot span was assembled off-site by Munilla Construction Management and moved into place. But on Thursday, March 15, 2018, something went wrong. With workers adjusting tension on the two rods at the north end of the span, the bridge collapsed, killing 6. For Hollywood resident Andi Morales, a student at FIU in her last year, the collapse indeed hit close to home. She travelled that road every day and passed under the bridge construction just around the time that it came crashing down. With over 50,000 students - as well as businesses in the area - many got lucky - but unfortunately - many didn’t!
What was supposed to be a foot bridge, like many areas of south Florida has to help move many around quicker, FIU's doomed pedestrian bridge morphed into something far more ambitious: The school had a grand plan to create a true college town in Sweetwater.
“You just never know when your time is up and in this case - it was certainly something thatsimply came out of nowhere - without warning,” Morales pointed out. “I usually have late morning and early afternoon
classes, so yes, it would have been easy for me to be in that vicinity.” Because of the heavy traffic in that area of Sweetwater, the bridge was something that was needed - and many who were normally forced to
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Hidden Consequences Dramatic Change In Vision of Losing Your Teeth For Dr. Henry Cherrick As a result of continued research in the development of diagnostic tools and innovative treatment, predictable success is now a reality in many challenging dental situations. This is a blessing, because tooth loss has some serious consequences — particularly for older people, who are more likely to be missing teeth.
When it comes to tooth loss - or any dental question that you may have, Dr. Patricia Bobadilla and her staff have the answers to so many things that affect us all.
The goal of modern dentistry is to restore normal function, comfort, aesthetics, speech, and health to individuals who are missing teeth. Given that our population is both aging and growing, an increasing number of people are being affected by the loss of teeth. However, the more teeth a person is missing, the more challenging this task can become.
The Unseen Effects of Tooth Loss The most obvious effect of missing teeth is aesthetic. The way you look affects the way you feel, and the psychological and social consequences of tooth loss can also be profound, as we shall see. But it's not just about unsightly gaps; there's something less apparent going on in the area of a lost tooth that can affect function, health, facial aesthetics — just about everything. Believe it or not, in the beginning and at the end — it's not so much about teeth as it is about bone, which needs stimulation to maintain its form and density. In the case of alveolar (sac-like) bone which surrounds and supports teeth, the necessary stimulation comes from the teeth themselves. Teeth make hundreds of fleeting contacts with each other throughout the day. These small stresses are transmitted through the periodontal ligament (“peri” – around; “odont” – tooth) that suspends each tooth in its socket, prompting the bone to remodel and rebuild continually. When a tooth is lost, the lack of stimulation causes loss of alveolar bone — its external width, then height, and
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Retired Dean of UCLA School of Medicine, Seeing Colors For The First Time In 10 Years! Hollywood - You will have to excuse Dr. Henry Cherrick if he spends more time than usual looking at the lake behind his home. For nearly 10 years both of his eyes had started to develop cataracts - and while he really never noticed that things were going downhill - it took a trip to the DMV to change everything. He then realized that he had been slowly losing his vision. “I knew I was having problems with my left eye,” Dr. Cherrick said. “When I failed the eye test to get my license renewed; that was it. Something had to be done - I was not living a quality life, not being able to see very well.” When his own ophthalmologist Dr. Alan Lane suggested he go visit Dr. Stanley Braverman at The Braverman Eye Center’s new stateof-the-art facility in Hollywood, it was indeed a life-changing decision. “From the first time my
Dr. Stanley Braverman, left, with patient Dr. Henry Cherrick after another successful procedure in his spacious Hollywood office. wife and I met with Dr. Braverman, it was amazing,” Dr. Cherrick, 78, said. “He not only found that I needed to get my left eye done, but said I had cataracts in both eyes.” Because of the presurgery workup (chest Xray, EKG, etc.) that is required for cataract procedures, Dr. Cherrick opted to have both surgeries done within three
weeks - and the results completely blew this one time dean of dental and medicine at UCLA, completely away. “I really never have had problems with my eyes in the past - other than wearing glasses for the past 30 years,” Dr. Cherrick said. “Someone who was a pathologist like myself and constantly
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