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Pediatric Dentist
As a parent, your child's well-being is your top priority. But did you know that good oral health is key to good overall health?
At Designing Smiles in Hackensack, NJ, we want to help young patients maintain healthy, beautiful smiles for life.
Here's what a pediatric dentist does and how they can help your entire family live healthier lives...
What Is a Pediatric Dentist?
According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, a pediatric dentist is a doctor dedicated to a child's oral health from the time they are infants to the time they reach adolescence. Pediatric dentists are familiar with common oral concerns among pediatric patients and can provide special care for the teeth, gums, and whole mouth.
Schedule a Free Consultation with a Pediatric Dentist Contact Our Practice Today
At Designing Smiles in Hackensack, NJ, we want to help patients of all ages maintain healthy, beautiful smiles for life.
Dr. Judith Mamah has been practicing dentistry since 1989. Her caring demeanor, gentle touch, and advanced treatment options can help your little one feel at ease during their next visit to the dentist.
To schedule an appointment for your child at our Hackensack, NJ, practice, request a consultation online or call us:
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Dr. Mamah is the best doctor in the world. She is so kind and gives you all the time. Her team is professional. She likes the patient to be happy. Only doctor I can trust.
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At what age should a child begin seeing a pediatric dentist?
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends that children see a dentist as soon as their first tooth erupts. Dr. Mamah sees patients as young as three years old. In addition to pediatric dentistry, Dr. Mamah offers comprehensive dental care to treat your child's developing smile.
How often should a child see a dentist?
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends that you take your child to the dentist every six months. However, your child may need more frequent check-ups if they have poor oral health or preexisting conditions that increase the risk of dental disease.
How can I make sure my child's dental care is affordable?
The key to affordable dentistry is preventing serious oral health issues. The earlier and more often you take your child to the dentist, the sooner our dentist will be able to detect and treat oral health issues. Prompt treatment can protect your child's teeth now and in the long term, preventing the need for more expensive treatments in the future. If you are worried about costs, our Hackensack, NJ, practice accepts financing.
How Do I Keep My Child's Teeth Healthy Between Visits?
The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry recommends using any soft-bristled toothbrush with a small head to clean your child's teeth. You should brush your child's teeth at least once per day, especially before bedtime.
When brushing, you should use a small amount of fluoride toothpaste and gently brush your child's teeth. As your child gets older, you can gradually increase the amount of toothpaste and start showing them how to properly brush their own teeth.
Lastly, you should help your child maintain a healthy, balanced diet. Limit your child's sugar and starch intake, as these can increase the risk of cavities.

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Anju Vasudevan
Associate Professor of Neuroscience; Chair/Scientific Director, Department of Neurosciences
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Dr. Anju Vasudevan serves as HMRI's Associate Professor of Neuroscience and Chair/Scientific Director of the Department of Neurosciences, which conducts basic, translational, and clinical research in developmental neuroscience, migraine, aging, and neurodegeneration.
Dr. Vasudevan received her PhD in neuroscience from the University of Cologne, Germany, and completed her postdoctoral work at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. From 2007 to 2020, she was a faculty member in the Departments of Neurology and Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Vasudevan established the Angiogenesis and Brain Development Laboratory at McLean Hospital in 2011. In June 2020, Dr. Vasudevan joined HMRI as the Scientific Director of the Neurovascular Research Program (www.hmri.org/neurovascular/) and served as the Director of the Postdoctoral Program from 2020 to 2022.
Dr. Vasudevan's research areas:
Dr. Vasudevan's work on early embryogenesis of the forebrain vascular system has opened an entirely new conceptual framework from which to view this critical component of brain development. The research in her laboratory focuses primarily on defining mechanisms that govern central nervous system (CNS) angiogenesis, as well as how CNS angiogenesis influences key events in brain development and how that shapes our postnatal and adult behaviors. This work has implications for understanding and treatment of a variety of neuropsychiatric diseases like autism, epilepsy, schizophrenia, anxiety, and depression. Dr. Vasudevan has received the NARSAD Young Investigator Grant and the NARSAD Independent Investigator Grant from the Brain & Behavior Research Foundation, as well as awards from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.
One in four people in the USA and worldwide suffers from some form of neuropsychiatric illness during their life. While drugs and therapies exist to treat some of the symptoms, there are no cures. Dr. Vasudevan's research program investigates key events of brain development and the ways those can go wrong, with the long-term goal of ensuring that early brain development remains on track. The lab uses a combination of developmental biology, genetics, cell biology, biochemistry, and imaging techniques in their research.
Endothelial cells are the building blocks of blood vessels. Work in Dr. Vasudevan's laboratory has shown that blood vessel development molds brain cell development, and that there is remarkable endothelial cell diversity and function in the embryonic forebrain—a new insight. Blood vessel-related defects that originate during the brain's earliest developmental stages play a role in neuropsychiatric illness in a way never imagined. Intrinsic neuronal defects thus far believed to cause schizophrenia, epilepsy, autism, and depression may in fact be a consequence of common molecular signals being defective, specifically in these endothelial cells. The lab is working to better understand how, why, and when this happens.
In addition, Dr. Vasudevan and her group are tapping into the potential of embryonic forebrain endothelial cells (mouse and human) in multiple ways to prevent the origin of diverse psychiatric symptoms by rescuing vascular defects in the prenatal brain, or by developing vascular therapies for repair and regeneration in the postnatal and adult brain.
Dr. Vasudevan's contributions to science:
Dr. Vasudevan's early works changed the dogma that endothelial cells are uniform, and that blood vessel formation is a passive process in response to neural signals. It depicted the diversity in embryonic forebrain vascular networks by differentiating them as pial versus periventricular, based on anatomy, origin, growth patterns, and developmental mechanisms. It changed notions of cerebral vascularization that implied that blood vessels sprout passively into the brain parenchyma from pial vascular plexuses to meet metabolic needs of growing neuronal populations.
Vasudevan A, Long JE, Crandall JE, Rubenstein JLR and Bhide PG. Compartment-specific transcription factors orchestrate angiogenesis gradients in the embryonic brain. Nature Neuroscience. 2008; 11(4): 429-39. PMID: 18344991
Vasudevan A and Bhide PG. Embryonic CNS angiogenesis: A new twist on an old tale; Cell Adhesion and Migration. 2008; 2(3): 167-169. PMID: 19262109
During 2011-2020, research from Dr. Vasudevan's laboratory documented new mechanisms by which periventricular endothelial cells instruct neurogenesis (the generation of neurons/brain cells) and neuronal migration (the movement of brain cells to the appropriate circuits) in the embryonic forebrain. It illustrated the intimate and symbiotic relationship between endothelial cells and neurons of the developing brain that respond meticulously and independently to common signals, depending on the cell type that secretes it. It showed that periventricular endothelial cells have intrinsic programs that can significantly mold neuronal development and uncovered new insights into concepts and mechanisms of CNS angiogenesis from developmental and disease perspectives. It implicated periventricular endothelial cells as being contributory to a wide swath of neuropsychiatric diseases—with schizophrenia, epilepsy, autism, mood and depressive disorders topping the list—revealing an important new problem. Furthermore, it established direct links between abnormal blood vessel development and alterations in behavior, bringing fresh perspectives on the vascular origin of mental illness.
Won CK, Lin Z, Kumar PT, Li S, Ding L, ElKhal A, Szabo G and Vasudevan A. Autonomous vascular networks synchronize GABA neuron migration in the embryonic forebrain. Nature Communications. 2013; 4: 2149 (1-14). PMID: 23857367
Li S, Haigh K, Haigh JJ, and Vasudevan A. Endothelial VEGF sculpts cortical cytoarchitecture. The Journal of Neuroscience. 2013; 33(37): 14809-15. PMID: 24027281
Li S, Kumar PT, Joshee S, Kirschstein T, Subburaju S, Khalili JS, Kloepper J, Du C, Elkhal A, Szabó G, Jain RK, Köhling R and Vasudevan A. Endothelial cell derived GABA signaling modulates neuronal migration and postnatal behavior. Cell Research-Nature. 2018; 28(2): 221-248. PMID: 29086765
Choi YK and Vasudevan A., Mechanistic insights into autocrine and paracrine roles of endothelial GABA in the embryonic forebrain, Scientific Reports. 2019; 9(1): 16256. PMID: 31700116
Her current work in the laboratory focuses on identifying new cellular and molecular substrates of neuropsychiatric disease origin and uses innovative approaches to harness the potential of CNS angiogenesis to find new cures. One project investigates whether pro-angiogenic compounds can serve to rescue neurovascular interactions during a critical developmental window and whether, in doing so, it may be possible to ameliorate behavioral symptoms. In another project, human endothelial cell transplantation is being used for the possibility of rescue of neural circuits in the diseased brain. A third project evaluates common molecular players in the brain and the heart vasculature that can lead to concurrent development of psychiatric and cardiac dysfunction. A fourth project seeks to identify new diagnostic tools and biomarkers to specifically distinguish between psychiatric disease categories through blood tests. Dr. Vasudevan envisions a future where the "healing touch" of angiogenesis therapy will bring relief to patients suffering from mental health disorders.
Sivan S, Kaye S, Choi YK, Baruah J, Datta D, Ren J, Kumar AS, Fukumura D, Jain RK, Elkhal A and Vasudevan A. NAD+ mediated rescue of prenatal forebrain angiogenesis restores postnatal behavior. Science Advances. 2020; 6(41): eabb9766. PMID: 33036972
Datta D, Subburaju S, Kaye S, Baruah J, Choi YK, Nian Y, Khalili JS, Chung S, Elkhal A and Vasudevan A. Human forebrain endothelial cell therapy for psychiatric disorders. Molecular Psychiatry. 2021; 26(9): 4864-4883. PMID: 32661257
Agrud A, Subburaju S, Goel P, Ren J, Kumar AS, Caldarone BA, Dai W, Chavez J, Fukumura D, Jain RK, Kloner RA, and Vasudevan A. Gabrb3 endothelial cell-specific knockout mice display abnormal blood flow, hypertension, and behavioral dysfunction. Scientific Reports. 2022; 12(1): 4922. PMID: 35318369


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Devpost for Teams
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Drive innovation, collaboration, and retention within your organization.
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Will a pitcher pitch the Konami Code?
An iOS game to help you learn your team's top prospects
Find craft brewery locations near MLB ballparks.
Want to prove that you're the greatest baseball fan ever? 10th Man Trivia lets you compete to prove that you are!
Going to the Game, Maybe you'll get a ball!
How much value are MLB teams getting from their pitchers? Quickly compare cost per strikeout, cost per game, etc.
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Texturize your photos with a baseball theme. Goal is to take a photo or image and "baseballize" it.
Visualizations of wins, losses, and the run differentials for each game for each MLB team
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African Agri-Tech Scale Up program is Helping the promising startups of the African continent become investment-ready
About this program
Endeavor SA and FMO have partnered together to launch the African Agri-Tech Scale Up program. This program provides entrepreneurs with highly-tailored, structured mentoring through Endeavor's global network of industry experts and investors as well as other critical resources to accelerate the growth of their early-stage agribusinesses. Through a cohort-based approach supported by FMO, Endeavor will focus on helping agritech ventures across Africa (with a specific focus on Morocco, Tanzania & Ghana) scale quicker
What does this program entail?
Tailored 1:1 business building, mentoring and a dedicated Endeavor portfolio manager to guide you through the year and curate your mentoring:
- Monthly expert mentoring (from specialist mentors) backed by experienced Endeavor portfolio manager, used to define a strategy or overcome challenges.
- Quarterly in depth business reviews to prioritize strategies and actions.
- Regular peer-to-peer sessions on topical issues facilitated by experts in the field.
- A significant focus on capital raising and being "investment-ready".
- Access to additional Endeavor Webinars and Meetups.
Who can apply/selection criteria?
You are able to apply, if you and your company meet the following criteria:
- Founder led
- African-based operations (preferably in Morocco, Tanzania & Ghana)
- Focus on or servicing the Agricultural industry
- Scalable business model (preferably tech-enabled)
- The company is post revenue
Duration of the African Agri-Tech Scale Up program
The structured component of the program will run from January 2022 to January 2023, with additional touchpoints until April 2023
For queries or additional information, please email: [email protected]
Closes January 7, 2022
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When it comes to ways to market your practice, the options seem endless with more being added almost every day. Every service comes with pages of data backing up why they're the most efficient way to attract new patients. Does that make them all the same?
In a word, no. Not all marketing and analytics options are created equal but there is one that you should always set up, even if you have little interest in analytics, and that is Google My Business . This should come as no surprise, Google accounts for over 70% of online search traffic. If you're going to be found online, it's probably going to come via a Google search query. This dominating market share has been hard earned and didn't come by mistake. Google has continued to roll out and optimize features that allow business owners like you to track how people are searching for services in your area and tailor that effort in response.
One of the most ubiquitous and easy to use features is Google My Business. Setting up your account for your practice requires entering some basic information about your business. Once you submit your information to Google, they will verify your business by mailing you a postcard with a verification code that you'll enter into your Google My Business account. Once your business is verified, your practice will appear in Google Maps and Google search results. You will then be able to run ads on Google, create special offers, link to your scheduling service, direct traffic to your website, collect and respond to reviews and more.
Even if you do not take advantage of the more technical features that Google My Business has to offer, taking the time to set up and claim your business is well worth it. With your location entered, your practice will show up on map searches and visitors can view your profile to contact you via phone, visit your website or even book an appointment using your scheduling service. If you're going to engage in any type of SEO efforts, setting up Google My Business should be step number one.
If you need help setting up your Google My Business account or, if you would like us to audit your account to make sure it is up-to-date and working for you and your practice, please reach out to us by contacting support. We have also provided step by step instructions to help you set up your Google My Business account.


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The Oregon Standoff leader and son to Cliven Bundy, who infamously attacked federal agents with militia members over a public land dispute, compared his struggle to that of Rosa Parks. Ammon Bundy tweeted this morning that the actions of the Oregon militia are similar to the stand Rosa Parks made during the height of segregation and lynching.
We are doing the same thing as Rosa Parks did. We are standing up against bad laws which dehumanize us and destroy our freedom.
— Ammon Bundy (@Ammon_Bundy) January 6, 2016
The tweet which has been revealed to be a fake according to Gizmodo was met with outrage by Twitter users. However, this whole ordeal makes for a great teaching moment nonetheless.
The fact is, Bundy and his merry group of white armed terrorists would not have supported the Civil Rights Movement because they are outspoken critics of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Militia member "Fluffy Unicorn" told the Huffington Post on Monday: "The Black Lives Matter movement, they can go and protest, close freeways down and all that stuff, and they don't get any backlash, not on the level that we're getting."
This person with the strange name has been living under a rock for the past year. The BLM has received the Right's vitriol all year, racism on social media, and even more police brutality on the streets.
"One could not imagine a group of armed Black men taking over an unoccupied federal building in one of our nation's cities as they have in Oregon," Senate candidate Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) said to Talking Points Memo. "It is time to tell that tough truth."
The truth is that Bundy and his group of militia may have terrorized Rosa Parks for taking a stand against the injustices of racism in this country.
What makes this even more strange is that Bundy's own father, Cliven is a racist who has said derogatory things about Black people in this country. According to a 2014 New York Times interview, this is what Cliven Bundy thinks about Black people:
"I want to tell you one more thing I know about the Negro," he said. Mr. Bundy recalled driving past a public-housing project in North Las Vegas, "and in front of that government house the door was usually open and the older people and the kids — and there is always at least a half a dozen people sitting on the porch — they didn't have nothing to do. They didn't have nothing for their kids to do. They didn't have nothing for their young girls to do.
And because they were basically on government subsidy, so now what do they do?" he asked. "They abort their young children, they put their young men in jail, because they never learned how to pick cotton. And I've often wondered, are they better off as slaves, picking cotton and having a family life and doing things, or are they better off under government subsidy? They didn't get no more freedom. They got less freedom."
Fake or otherwise, Twitter did not let this troll and/or Oregon Standoff supporter slide.
@Ammon_Bundy you terrorists are no Rosa Parks and it's an insult to her to compare yourselves to her.
— Amy (@Amy0227) January 6, 2016
Rosa Parks would have been active with Black Lives Matter Standing for equal rights. Not stealing a bus with an AK-47 and saying "It's Mine"
— Wisdom Rocks (@GetWisdomDude) January 6, 2016
Nice try. Rosa Parks didn't hijack a bus with an assault rifle because she didn't want to pay the bus fare. @Ammon_Bundy
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) January 6, 2016
I was so excited to see Rosa Parks trending. Then, cruel disappointment.
— gwen ifill (@gwenifill) January 6, 2016
If you're not a fearless activist who learned your trade investigating the rape of black women in the rural South, you're not Rosa Parks.
— Dave Zirin (@EdgeofSports) January 6, 2016
The closest Ammon Bundy will ever get to being Rosa Parks is when he's in custody in the back of a police car.
— InternetActionForce (@InternetAction) January 6, 2016
Wait, you're telling me Ammon Bundy actually compared himself to Rosa Parks? This isn't an Onion headline? pic.twitter.com/emOsURCwXm
— John Haltiwanger (@jchaltiwanger) January 6, 2016
I love Kim Davis and Ammon Bundy's invocation of Rosa Parks. Name me the extreme right wingers who saluted her on 12/1/55? I'll wait.
— Bijan C. Bayne (@bijancbayne) January 6, 2016
What kind of gun did Rosa Parks use when she refused to give up her seat? https://t.co/QP5tLxo2XQ
— Nana (@HighOnBlack) January 6, 2016
Remember that time Rosa Parks hijacked a bus at gun point because she didn't want to pay bus fare.
— Andisheh Nouraee (@andishehnouraee) January 6, 2016
Cliven Bundy: "You know, black people was better off being slaves." Ammon Bundy: "Shut UP, dad, we're TOTES Rosa Parks!"
— GAIL SIMONE (@GailSimone) January 6, 2016
These people here wilding. Don't utter Rosa Parks in the same sentence with armed terrorists that probably could care less about Rosa Parks.
— PantheR (@____PantheR) January 6, 2016
…only if Rosa Parks had set fires to cover her tracks, commandeered a federal facility and vowed violence if forced to comply w/ the law.
— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) January 6, 2016


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Real benefits from creating a trans-national community of Jamaicans in view of effectively incorporating the Diaspora into prospects for Jamaica's development demands an altered approach to networking. Since 2003, the 'culture of camaraderie' exhumed by Jamaicans at home and abroad gained tremendous recognition and rightly so. The contributions made by Jamaicans living abroad to 'the rock' – as Jamaica is affectionately called – are well noted and has played a role in the country's development as far back as Jamaicans migrated in noticeable numbers. Now that these contributions are being formally incorporated on several levels into Jamaican development, the growing awareness of the Diaspora's viability raises some large questions. For one, the Jamaican Diaspora Conferences highlighted the need for an official yet flexible framework of exchange in expertise. Policy makers, however, can not think of the trans-national community as a generic entity. The challenge is not so much harnessing a borderless community of Jamaicans but to identify the type of network that best suits Jamaica and Jamaicans. Policy makers should consider Hometown Associations (HTAs) as a good starting point for establishing the right network of Jamaicans.
The phrase 'Jamaican Diaspora' is inherently collaborative and communal as the term Diaspora does not single out persons who migrate to other countries and maintain meaningful ties with the home country but specifically refers to a collective. Therefore, if the Diaspora is the social groupings that are formed by Jamaican migrants, which maintain a meaningful link with the home country then the HTA is the quintessence of 'diasporization'. HTAs are organizations of immigrants that, using identity and/ or affiliations, have some program geared towards helping another group, community or institution in the home-country. While there is no definite idea of how many HTAs are a part of the Jamaican Diaspora, there is no doubt that they are numerous and active. Jamaica boasts HTAs ranging from those which are established by past students of some high schools (such as St. Georges Old Boys Association and St. Jago Past Students Association) to those which are organized around a specific cause (such as Project for the Advancement of Childhood Education -PACE) or a specific community (the Friends of Trelawny Association – FOTA).
The capacity of the Diaspora to channel expertise or other contributions towards the development of Jamaica is unquestioned but the technique of maximizing the benefits is still undeveloped. The work of historians shows that West Indian emigrants were always key players in the movements for change in their countries, dating back to the first major waves of West Indian migrations since emancipation. It is no co-incidence that some of the most renowned nationalist leaders of West Indian nations were at some point members of the Diaspora. As labour migrants were instrumental to the decolonization process so is the present Diaspora to overcoming legacies of colonisation. A partnership between Jamaicans at home and abroad that is to accomplish any sustained measure of development must have at its base a functional set of connections – an aptly tailored trans-national community of Jamaicans. The trans-national network must take into account the nature of the Diaspora's attention to 'the rock' to identify a suitable networking process. In order to understand the nature of the networking process for Jamaicans, the Jamaican government and other policy makers must pay much more attention to HTAs.
If the Diaspora is to play a part in development initiatives, the approach to networking and ideas of national identity embedded in HTAs are vital guidelines to a tailored trans-national community. Having a recognizable Diaspora is not a blanket of unwavering ties since the attention and devotion of Jamaican emigrants vary. Smadar Lavie and Ted Swedenburg argued that a degree of de-territorilization occurs among migrants because identities are not fixed to geography. If there is any degree of de-territorialization among Jamaican immigrants then HTAs are symbols of a re-territorialization since they indicate a more sustainable relationship between immigrants and the home-country. In 2004, the Jamaica Association of North Carolina (JANC), for example, launched a 'calling of Jamaica' project which doubled their Roster to 800 people and increased thier mailing list by 300 percent. These were the amazing results of a community building effort within a single HTA. While organizations like JANC call, Jamaicans in the Diaspora answer by enrolling. It is the very nature of HTAs to retain strong links with the home country that should inform the characteristics of a Jamaican trans-national community. HTAs provide a theoretical and practical base for a tailored trans-national community of Jamaicans.
It makes sense to approach HTAs as the heart of any movement towards establishing a trans-national community. While the Diaspora's financial contributions are vital, the idea of a trans-national community places fiscal gains secondary to the value of HTAs as socio-political networks. Jay Mandle, in a study of underdevelopment in the Caribbean, argued that developing countries in the region failed to achieve significant economic transformation throughout the 20th century because the social institutions limited technological change. For Mandle, a country like Jamaica is not developed because scientific and technical knowledge was not applied to production to effectively stimulate innovation even throughout what is known as a decolonization phase. With that knowledge of what went wrong or what ought to have happened in the decolonization process, there is still the question of how to get the changes needed. A viable approach to getting a trans-national community to stimulate innovation in Jamaica is developing an appropriate model based on lessons from HTAs.
As HTAs swell in membership, policy makers need to give meaningful attention to HTAs. They should think of how these rapidly increasing groups approach the process of networking and examine how they identify with Jamaica; lessons for the trans-national community itself lay in the HTAs' approach to Jamaica. HTAs are therefore valuable for the insight they may add to understanding and adapting the networking process. HTAs are pillars upon which a trans-national community of Jamaicans must rest.


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