No wonder Coke-Cola Tastes Sooooooooo Good

1. In many states (in the USA) the highway patrol carries two gallons of Coke in the trunk to remove blood from the highway after a car accident.

2. You can put a T-bone steak in a bowl of coke and it will be gone in two days.

3. To clean a toilet: Pour a can of Coca-Cola into the toilet bowl and let the "real thing" sit for one hour, then flush clean. The citric acid in Coke removes stains from vitreous china. 

4. To remove rust spots from chrome car bumpers: Rub the bumper with a crumpled-up piece of Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil dipped in Coca-Cola.

5. To clean corrosion from car battery terminals. Pour a can of Coca-Cola over the terminals to bubble away the corrosion.

6. To loosen a rusted bolt: Applying a cloth soaked in Coca-Cola to the rusted bolt for several minutes.

7. To bake a moist ham: Empty a can of Coca-Cola into the baking pan, wrap the ham in aluminum foil, and bake. Thirty minutes before the ham is finished, Remove the foil, allowing the drippings to mix with the Coke for
a sumptuous brown gravy.

8. To remove grease from clothes: Empty a can of coke into a load of greasy clothes, add detergent, and run through a regular cycle. The Coca-Cola will help loosen grease stains. It will also clean road haze from your windshield.

9. The active ingredient in Coke is phosphoric acid. Its Ph is 2.8. It will dissolve a nail in about 4 days.

10. To carry Coca-Cola syrup (the concentrate) the commercial truck must use the Hazardous material place cards reserved for Highly corrosive materials.

11. The distributors of coke have been using it to clean the engines of their trucks for about 20 years 

So.......The question is...Would you like a glass of water or a Coke ?

October 29th- National Prescription Drug Take Back Day

Oct. 29th is National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.  Salem Police Department is holding an open house and will be collecting unwanted and unused prescription drugs on the 29th.
More than 7 million Americans currently abuse prescription drugs.  Each day approximately 2,500 teens use prescription drugs to get high for the first time.  Studies show that a majority of abused prescription drugs are obtained from family and friends, including the home medicine cabinet.  Previously, 4,000 state and local law enforcement agencies throughout the nation participated in these events, collecting more than 309 tons of pills.

Caroline Wallace DDS
Complete Dental Care
103 South Colorado Street
Salem , Virginia, 24153
540-387-3844

“An unemployed man dies after a “Treatable” tooth infection”

September 6^th 2011 

A 24 year old father has died, after a tooth infection spread to his brain, because he had no health insurance and couldn’t afford treatment.

Kyle Willis, who is the nephew of famous bassist , Bootsy Collins , was truck down with a toothache a fortnight ago. The aspiring para-legal from Cincinnati was told he needed to have one of his wisdom teeth removed. But the single father was out of work and couldn’t afford the treatment.

This was a preventable tragedy; Kyle Willis was out of work and didn’t have health insurance. When the father on one began getting headaches and his face swelled up , he went to an emergency room, New York Daily news reported. Doctors told him he had a serious infection which was spreading to his brain.

Willis’ Aunt, Patti Collins told WLWT-TV , the doctors gave him prescriptions for antibiotics and pain medication, but he couldn’t afford to pay for the antibiotic, so he chose the pain medications, which is not what he needed. He should have gone to the dentist to take care of the toothache, and all this would not have escalated to all of this.

The pain lessened but the infection grew, spreading to his brain that caused his death.

Willis died, leaving a 6 year old daughter.

Dr. Irvin Silverstein of the University of California at San Diego to ABC News, “People don’t realize that dental disease can cause serious illness and people end up dying from one of the most preventable diseases in the world”

This Blog post is not intended to be any sort of indictment on anyone or the system, just as a caution to what Dental Heath can mean to your overall well-being.

Caroline Wallace DDS

103 South Colorado Street

Salem, Virginia, 24153

540-387-3844

Afraid of Dentist's Needles ??????

“I’m terrified of dental injections. They hurt like hell! And the look of the syringe scares me to death.”

“I’m completely petrified of all needles. It’s the thought of injections that I can’t tolerate, to the point where I avoid them even when they are absolutely necessary.”

New developments in needle technology may ease your fears.

Painless needles.
Transcodent Painless Steel Injection Needles have been shown to greatly reduce pain from an injection, thus reducing the anxiety and fear of getting an injection. We are presently using these needles for our patients and the response has been excellent. Along with our Sedation Dentistry Program, we are using these needles as another tool to insure our patients are as comfortable and pain free as possible.

Caroline Wallace DDS
Complete Dental Care
103 South Colorado Street
Salem , Virginia , 24153
540-387-3844