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Northshore October 2025
  Since retiring from his Peabody dental practice and from teaching at Tufts medical and dental schools, Dr. Mel Miller, DDS, has traveled to the poorest corners of the earth, where he has lived in dorms, brushed huge spiders out of his bed, used a hole in the ground for a toilet, guarded himself against deadly diseases, and paid hefty sums in airfare—all of which was done voluntarily.  In 2007, Dr. Miller joined his colleague, Aidee Herman, DMD, M.Sc.D., of the Periodontal Department of Tufts School of Dental Medicine, in a venture far outside the comforts of the Western world. At least once a year, the two dentists, as
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