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Early detection of heart attacks aided by gold nanoparticles
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– January 21, 2015
David Letterman
“I’m just trying to make a smudge on the collective unconscious.”
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– January 20, 2015
Association between oral conditions and functional limitations in childhood
Summary The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of oral conditions on functional limitations among preschoolers. A preschool?based, cross?sectional study was carried out with 843 preschoolers in Campina Grande, Brazil. Parents/caregivers answered a questionnaire addressing socio?demographic characteristics and perceptions regarding the general/oral health of their children as well as the Brazilian version of the Early Childhood Oral Health Impact Scale. The nonparametric Kruskal–Wallis test followed by Mann–Whitney test (? = 5%) was used to compare mean children’s quality?of?life scores for each independent variable. Poisson regression analysis was used to test associations between the independent and dependent variables (difficulties eating, drinking and speaking…
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– January 20, 2015
Good Oral Health Care Can Lead to Better Management of Diabetes
Jeanne Eder Rhodes didn’t realize how the simple acts of regularly brushing and flossing her teeth could lead to better health for diabetics. Rhodes, 66, who recently retired as head of the University of Alaska’s history department, was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes in 1998.
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– January 20, 2015
Heavy bone loss aound implants in grinder: feedback?
Note the massive bone loss around the implants. Patient is a heavy bruxer but is too lazy to wear the protective nightguard. (Source: Dental Implants Discussed by Experts)
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– January 19, 2015
Enhanced ICU oral care may reduce risk of lower respiratory tract infection, study shows.
Authors: PMID: 25577820 [PubMed – in process] (Source: Journal of the American Dental Association)
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– January 18, 2015
Your chance to own David Bowie’s teeth
Dental artist Jessine Hein has created dentures of David Bowie’s old teeth from acrylics, plaster and acrylic paint. The toothless can now what it feel like to hold, lick and suck on David Bowie’s teeth.
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– January 18, 2015
Issues arising following a referral and subsequent wait for extraction under general anaesthetic: impact on children
Conclusions: It is clear that pain, sleepless nights and missed school are a feature during a wait for dental GA and can be exacerbated by an extended wait. These data support the need for not only effective prevention of caries within primary care to reduce wait times and experience of GA but also effective management of pain and infection during a prolonged wait for treatment. (Source: BMC Oral Health)
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– January 17, 2015
3-D technology becoming common in dental offices
Wielding a 3-D scanner that looked like a bulky electric toothbrush, dentist Randy Raetz spent a few minutes in a patient’s mouth one morning last week, getting three-dimensional images of a set of front teeth, the opposing arch, and how they fit together in a bite. Then, while the patient sat back in the Brighton, N.Y., practice’s dental chair and tapped away on his laptop, Raetz tweaked some of the imagery on a computer screen before sending the data to a mill sitting feet away.
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– January 17, 2015
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
“There are people who think that everything one does with a serious face is sensible.”
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– January 16, 2015
