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After my teeth were professionally scraped, polished and flossed, I told my dentist about my recent trip to Iran. In the midst of waxing on about chadors and secularism, gas lines and fabulous chicken kebabs, he asked, "How are their teeth?" I've been to Iran four times already and no one's asked me about teeth before. But he, of course, is my dentist.

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