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Oral hygiene is important for the health of the whole body. Usually, those with healthy gums and teeth have better overall health. Oral health can also relate to health issues in other parts of the body. There are many different diseases and conditions that can affect the mouth, just as there are a lot of treatments for oral health.

Since the mouth is the gateway to the rest of the body, it is important for it to remain healthy. Sometimes, this can be difficult because there are so many different diseases and infections that can get into the mouth.

However, with proper dental hygiene, it is possible to prevent nearly any kind of problem that your mouth might face. One of the diseases that can strike the mouth is gum disease, or gingivitis. This is a disease that is caused by deterioration of the gums.

Symptoms of gum disease usually involve bleeding and swollen gums, blackened and thin gums, sensitive teeth, receding gums and sometimes a deteriorated jaw and loose teeth. Gingivitis is simple to treat in the earliest stages, but is much harder to treat when it has been allowed to grow undeterred.

China’s colossal number of think tanks on international relations are earning greater international recognition and exerting increasing influence on China’s foreign policymaking. Leading think tanks, such as the China Institute of International Studies, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations, China Center for Contemporary World Studies and Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, have made significant progress in the past decades. Beijing Review reporter Li Li recently interviewed Professor Jin Canrong, Associate Dean of the School of International Studies, Renmin University of China, to find out the latest development trends of these organizations.

In early 2009, the United States was engaged in an intense public debate over a proposed $800 billion stimulus bill designed to boost economic activity through government borrowing and spending. James Buchanan, Edward Prescott, Vernon Smith, and Gary Becker, all Nobel laureates in economics, argued that while the stimulus might be an important emergency measure, it would fail to improve economic performance. Nobel laureates Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, on the other hand, argued that the stimulus would improve the economy and indeed that it should be bigger. Fierce debates can be found in frontier areas of all the sciences, of course, but this was as if, on the night before the Apollo moon launch, half of the world’s Nobel laureates in physics were asserting that rockets couldn’t reach the moon and the other half were saying that they could. Prior to the launch of the stimulus program, the only thing that anyone could conclude with high confidence was that several Nobelists would be wrong about it.

But the situation was even worse: it was clear that we wouldn’t know which economists were right even after the fact. Suppose that on February 1, 2009, Famous Economist X had predicted: “In two years, unemployment will be about 8 percent if we pass the stimulus bill, but about 10 percent if we don’t.” What do you think would happen when 2011 rolled around and unemployment was still at 10 percent, despite the passage of the bill? It’s a safe bet that Professor X would say something like: “Yes, but other conditions deteriorated faster than anticipated, so if we hadn’t passed the stimulus bill, unemployment would have been more like 12 percent. So I was right: the bill reduced unemployment by about 2 percent.”