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<b><font size="4" color="black" face="Georgia"><span style="font-size:14.5pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:black;font-weight:bold">Dentists discover microbeads in toothpaste<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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<i><font size="3" color="#d62c2e" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#D62C2E;font-style:italic">Posted: Sep 17, 2014 8:06 AM EDT</span></font></i><font color="black"><span style="color:black"><em class="wnDate">Wednesday, September 17,
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">A dental hygienist in Phoenix noticed something strange in the mouths of her patients and spoke up about it.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">I didn't have any clue what it was," Trish Walraven said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Walraven has seen lots of things as a dental hygienist. But until a few years ago, she had never seen anything like this.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"We thought it was a cleaning product or something that people were chewing," Walraven said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Little blue dots, trapped in the tiny spaces between people's teeth and gums.
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Some weeks I'll see 5 or 6 patients," Walraven said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">She started asking around and other hygienists were seeing it too. It took a while, but they finally figured out what it was.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Polyethylene," she said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">It's a plastic used in all kinds of things. Garbage containers, grocery bags, bullet proof vests, even knee replacements and now in toothpaste.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Walvaren says one brand appears to use the plastic microbeads more than others.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"Pretty much everyone was saying that they were using some form of Crest toothpaste," she said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Valley dentist Dr. Justin Phillip says the microbeads shouldn't be anywhere near your mouth.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">"They'll trap bacteria in the gums which leads to gingivitis, and over time that infection moves from the gum into the bone that holds your teeth and that becomes
periodontal disease. Periodontal disease is scary," Phillips said.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Walvaren wants the beads gone too. She wrote a blog that has gotten national attention. It even caught the eye of proctor and gamble.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">In a statement the crest manufacturer says: "while the ingredient in question is completely safe, we understand there is a growing preference for us to remove the
ingredient. So we will."<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<font size="3" color="black" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Anyone wanting to make sure the product they're using is microbead free, take a look at the ingredient list and make sure it doesn't include polyethylene.</span></font><font size="1" color="black" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:7.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="2" color="navy" face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Deborah L. DeBiasi</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><b><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy;font-weight:bold">Email: Deborah.DeBiasi@deq.virginia.gov</span></font></b><b><i><font size="2" color="red"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:red;font-weight:bold;font-style:italic"><br>
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<a href="http://www.deq.virginia.gov/">www.deq.virginia.gov</a></span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Virginia Department of Environmental Quality</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
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</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Industrial Pretreatment/Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Program</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">PPCPs, EDCs, and Microconstituents<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:navy">Location: 629 E. Main Street, Richmond, VA 23219</span></font><font size="2" color="navy"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:navy"><br>
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