Dr. Thomas Overmeyer, owner of Overmeyer Family Dental, recently hired the dental assistant Brittany Ogilvie. Dental assistants in Florida must be a graduate of a state-certified program or school and be certified by the state in dental radiography.
Orlando Family Dental Office Adds Dental Assistant to Growing Staff
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– August 25, 2015
Why does going to the dentist feel like a trip back in time to the stone age?
In this era of hi-tech surgery and medical innovation, dentistry can feel a little left behind. But is this fair, or just an image problem?Who among us hasn’t had this thought, as a dentist industriously and cheerfully chisels and scrapes and drills away at your teeth: surely there is a better way?When anthropologists last month discovered evidence of dental handiwork in a 14,000-year-old tooth, the surprising thing about it wasn’t the fact that people in the stone age had cavities and tried to do something about them. It was the fact that the procedure seemed so … familiar. Continue reading… (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
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– August 24, 2015
Oral health of school children in Western Australia
ConclusionsThe study highlighted poor dental health associated with living in non?fluoridated areas, Aboriginal identity, poor oral hygiene, lower socio?economic level and having extended intervals between dental checkups. Timely assessments and preventive measures targeted at groups, including extending community water fluoridation, may assist in further improving the oral health of children in Western Australia.This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved. (Source: Australian Dental Journal)
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– August 23, 2015
Andy Warhol
“In the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes.”
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– August 22, 2015
Mother’s Perception of General Family Functioning and Sugar Consumption of 3- and 4-Year-Old Children: The East London Family Study
This study analysed data from 3- and 4-year-old children (n = 698) and their mothers and included logistic regression, conceptual hierarchical modelling and mediation analysis. The results showed that 17% of the sample consumed sugary foods more than 4 times per day, and that effective general family functioning may help reducing frequent consumption of sugary foods. There was a 67% reduction in children’s frequent consumption of sugary foods with every unit increase in the general family functioning score. Mother’s higher education may also help reduce the frequent consumption of sugary foods by children. The negative impact of mother’s lower education was buffered by the effect of effective general family functioning. The study findings underscore the prospect of identifying factors that…
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– August 22, 2015
To boost job prospects, younger Americans seek dentures
Some areas that top the nation for unemployment also fare worst in a health measure that can keep people from getting jobs – missing teeth, USA TODAY reports. West Virginia is the starkest example.
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– August 22, 2015
“Inadequate” dementia care home ordered to improve by CQC
A CARE home in Poole for dementia sufferers has been deemed “inadequate” after one nurse was left to look after 23 residents. Delph House, based on Upper Golf Links Road in Broadstone , has been told it is “not safe”, “not effective”, “not responsive” and “not well led” in a Care Quality Commission report published on July 29. Among the “serious shortfalls” identified by inspectors, who visited unannounced in May, were concerns over the staff’s “skills and ability to provide safe care”.
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– August 21, 2015
In Okey-Panky, Gina Williams tells the story of her teeth
There are, I must admit, a lot of resonances for me in Gina Williams’ essay “Tooth and Nail,” up at Okey-Panky this week. Not because Williams and I have so much in common – our experiences are very different – but because teeth have long been a particular obsession of mine.
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– August 20, 2015
Modern Dentistry of Shrewsbury provides a complete range of services
“My philosophy is to educate myself as thoroughly as possible so I know what can be done in terms of techniques and materials, and then give that information to my patients so we can discuss the options, and they can make the decision that is best for them. The patient is as much a part of the process as I am,” said Dr. Todd Pizzi, who started the practice in 2001.
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– August 19, 2015
