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There’s a good reason that the University of Washington in Seattle runs a Dental Fears Research Clinic. Between 5 and 8 percent of Americans are so fearful that they don’t visit a dentist at all, and another 20 percent wait until it is unavoidable. A growing body of research, however, is showing that skipping the […]