VA Dental Care. VA offers comprehensive dental care benefits to certain qualifying Veterans. In addition, Veterans enrolled in VA health care may purchase dental insurance at a reduced cost through the VA Dental Insurance Program (VADIP). Beneficiaries of VAâs Civilian Health and Medical Programâa health insurance program for dependents of Veteransâare also eligible for VADIP. Services offered through VADIP include diagnostic, preventive, surgical, emergency, and endodontic and restorative treatment.
CFU is an acronym (type of abbreviation) commonly seen on products containing probiotics. It stands for colony forming unit and is a measurement of the good bacteria and yeasts inside. A colony forming unit is a bacteria or yeast that is capable of living and reproducing to form a group of the same bacteria or yeasts. Microbiologists use CFU to describe the number of active, live organisms instead of the number of all the bacteria-dead, inactive and alive-in a laboratory sample.
For example, an ant colony is comprised of ants that live closely together due to mutual benefits, such as to make stronger defense. Single-celled organisms can also form colonies, as coenobium is a colony of single-celled Volvox species. Bacteria form colonies when grown in a solid medium. The colony is actually (and ideally) a group of bacterial clones since they are all derived from only a single parent cell.