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Thanks BG - very useful

The missus tells me there's a dental wing at the HH hospital Pleng. She's trying to summon up the courage to go there to get a tooth sorted. I think a dental hospital is more likely to put you out than a dentist. I was put out with gas as a 15 yo with an impacted tooth - got to agree with you on the...

I'm going to try BKK hospital, to see if I can have it extracted under general anaesthetic. The dentist said asking might be worth a try but she didn't think they'd do it. Failing that I guess I'll just have to grow some, and get it done under local :( That reminds me Pleng. About 7 years back I re...

Also a little off topic Ric - plant stanol esters - i.e. Benecol or the like and also in lots of foodstuffs.

My cholesterol went marginally above 5 and tried them. A couple of months later I was retested and it had lowered to 4.2.

You can get them in Tescos in Market Village.

I don't know the law on this but would imagine that for a 'leuk krung' or farang child the authorities won't give diddly squat about their education! Perhaps they should care though, because with either home or extra curricular schooling some leuk krung could pose a future threat to their Thai chil...

That's really good news Dr Mike.

Any idea what stage they're at with the testing and when it might be available?

When my wife and daughter came to live in the UK (she was 3 at the time) we translated her immunisation record so that we could check whether anything was missing. She was born and spent the first 2 years of her life in a little village in Isaan. We actually discovered that she had had all the vacci...

Very often there are few or no materials, meddling incompetent bean-counters telling you how to teach, no support for the teacher whatever in the face of parents demanding to know why Somchai is not fluent after three weeks despite his absences and his gnat-like attention span. Made me chuckle John...