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Re:After simple dental surgery, William lost his ability to ... by randomdestructn on Sunday July 05, 2015 @12:24PM (#9833992)
Clicking through your link gets some stats that agree with them [1], based on this paper [2]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preventable_causes_of_death#Ac...

2. http://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/0...

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Re:After simple dental surgery, William lost his ability to ... by schrodinger on Sunday July 05, 2015 @04:20PM (#9834767)
Those are preventable causes of death, not all causes of death.
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