ARE some of your patients having trouble sleeping?
Many pharmacies are introducing new professional services in this area - but they are unlikely to have helped a Chinese man whose snoring was found to be due to a tooth growing in his nostril.
Zhang Binsheng, 30, was admitted to hospital after telling doctors he had struggled to breathe through his nose for about three months, and had also experience a "constant smell of decay".
An X-ray revealed a shadow at the rear of his nasal cavity, which it turns out was a long-lost tooth which had been knocked out when he had an accident at the age of 10.
Somehow the errant denture had managed to take root in his nose, and Zhang is believed to be breathing easier now, after minor surgery to extract it from his sinuses (below).
British bakery Greggs has come up with a unique approach to dealing with the global obesity crisis.
The breakthrough consists of basically removing the centre of their popular jam-filled pastries to create - guess what - a donut!
Greggs CEO, Roger Whiteside, told delegates at a recent obesity conference in London that the revolutionary initiative "takes some of the calories out".
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