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Fluoride treatments cost anywhere from around $25 to $55. Though many insurers cover the cost for kids, adults generally pay out of pocket.Boyer, who used to get the treatments as a child, paid $30 for her first adult treatment. Though she wishes it was covered by insurance, she said that’s a small price to pay to prevent decay, expensive dental procedures and possible tooth loss.

“We only have one set of teeth,” she said. “The longer you can keep them, the longer you should.”The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.Mari McGavin is on the run from a powerful religious cult and her controlling husband, fleeing with her young son back to the tiny island in Maine where she grew up.

On Little Great Island, she crosses paths with an old friend from her childhood, Harry Richardson, who is fleeing his own demons, in his case grief and painful memories after his wife’s death. Harry is so bereft he can barely function as he returns to sell the home where his family spent summers when he was kid.In her novel “Little Great Island,” author Kate Woodworth explores the relationship between the two as they navigate pain and loss, as well as their connections to an island being reshaped by

Harry reluctantly allows Mari, who lived for years in a religious farming community in South Carolina, to plant a vegetable garden on his family’s property while he clears out its contents and readies it for sale. They grow closer as Harry helps Mari and her 6-year-old son, Levi, with gardening chores and he slowly starts absorbing his loss.

Distinguished retired diplomat Tom Estabrook, who knew Mari and Harry as children, is also a key character in the book released this month byMore than 5,600 people were killed across Haiti last year, and more than 1,600 others from January to end of March, according to the U.N. Gang violence also has left more than 1 million people homeless

Pélissier noted that Haiti’s National Police is severely understaffed — there is one officer for every 12,000 residents. He said that intelligence and counterintelligence also is greatly lacking.Jean-Michel Moïse, Haiti’s defense minister, echoed those concerns.

The military has about 1,000 members with limited training, he said.“They are unable, still now, to effectively (fight) the gangs, which are very strong, very well armed, very well financed,” Moïse said. “Haiti is on the brink of being fully controlled by criminal gangs, and we cannot allow that to happen.”