An Ottawa woman who flushed her lower denture down the toilet after she became violently ill last spring from drinking has a new upper and lower set, worth about $ 3,000. Dr. Patrick Roy, a long-time local dentist, decided he would replace Margaret Lanouette’s lower denture at no charge after reading about her plight in The Public Citizen in September.
Adami: Ottawa woman who lost lower denture gets a free upper and lower set
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– November 20, 2014
A retrospective analysis of prevalence and characteristics of pre?eruptive intracoronal resorption in unerupted teeth of the permanent dentition: a multicentre study
ConclusionPre?eruptive intracoronal resorption defects occurred in 40 subjects. Increased awareness and careful radiographic examination of unerupted teeth may improve early detection and treatment of PIR defects. (Source: International Endodontic Journal)
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– November 19, 2014
What causes a canker sore?
Q: I have a small, white, painful sore under my tongue. I have had this several times before and it usually goes away after a week or so, but it seems to come back again.
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– November 19, 2014
Levels of interleukin?37 in gingival crevicular fluid, saliva, or plasma in periodontal disease
ConclusionsIL?37 was expressed in all biofluids. According to our findings, the total amount of IL?37 in gingival crevicular fluid, or salivary or plasma concentrations of IL?37, may not be useful diagnostic markers to differentiate periodontal disease and the periodontally healthy condition. The difference in gingival crevicular fluid IL?37 concentration between the study groups may be a result of the variation in gingival crevicular fluid volume, as suggested by the negative correlation between gingival crevicular fluid volume and gingival crevicular fluid IL?37 concentration. In the light of our findings, it seems that IL?37 is not involved in periodontal disease. Further comprehensive studies may clarify this issue more clearly. (Source: Journal of Periodontal Research)
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– November 18, 2014
Topless Miley Cyrus Has a New Job: Dentures Salesman
That crazy girl Miley Cyrus revealed on Instagram yesterday that she has a new business venture: Billy-Bob dentures. You know, those gross-looking fake teeth that people wear for laughs and fun.
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– November 18, 2014
Just one 10-second kiss transfers 80 million bacteria
A new study examining oral microbiota finds that when couples kiss intimately at high frequencies, their salivary microbiota become similar.
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– November 18, 2014
Kent Nichols and Douglas Sarine
“Here’s a tip to avoid death by celebrity: First off, get a life. They can’t touch you if you’re out doing something interesting.”
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– November 17, 2014
Non-antibacterial tetracycline formulations: clinical applications in dentistry and medicine.
Authors: Gu Y, Walker C, Ryan ME, Payne JB, Golub LM Abstract In 1983, it was first reported that tetracyclines (TCs) can modulate the host response, including (but not limited to) inhibition of pathologic matrix metalloproteinase (MMP) activity, and by mechanisms unrelated to the antibacterial properties of these drugs. Soon thereafter, strategies were developed to generate non-antibacterial formulations (subantimicrobial-dose doxycycline; SDD) and compositions (chemically modified tetracyclines; CMTs) of TCs as host-modulating drugs to treat periodontal and other inflammatory diseases. This review focuses on the history and rationale for the development of: (a) SDD which led to two government-approved medications, one for periodontitis and the other for acne/rosacea and (b) CMTs,…
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– November 17, 2014
How George Washington’s Bad Teeth Helped Win the Revolutionary War
As he aged, George Washington gradually lost his teeth. Throughout his life, he consulted a variety of dentists to provide dentures for him.
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– November 17, 2014
Fletcher Knebel
“Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.”
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– November 16, 2014
