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Dental Cleaning During Pregnancy

Activities that are often part of your normal routine — eating sushi, coloring your hair or riding your bike — may be potentially dangerous when you’re pregnant. In fact, so many things are potential risks during pregnancy that it’s easy to become paranoid about safe activities like getting your teeth cleaned.

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How to Clean a Suede Handbag

Yes, it would be easier to tote cotton, linen or denim. Those fabric handbags are so easy to wash, and you can breathe easy when a toddler comes charging at it. But you have swagger. You don’t need to hide behind cotton. You aren’t afraid to trot out of the house with a suede bag. You bring it everywhere with your kiddos, even around spit, paint, dirt and mouthfuls of crackers and apple juice. You walk with confidence into the playgroup, and all the other moms just bow down to your suede-covered courage.

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What Are Some Treatments for Wrinkles Around the Mouth?

As skin ages, it loses elasticity. This natural decrease in collagen and elastin causes wrinkles to look more pronounced, especially around the mouth area. Doctors often treat patients for three common types of wrinkles around the mouth. Lipstick lines, also called smoker’s lines, are the fine wrinkles that extend vertically from the top lip. Marionette lines extend downward from the corner of the mouth and give it a puppet-like appearance, and parentheses lines are the shallow, curving lines at the corners of the mouth.