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ADA Catalog ideas for NCDHM activities

The ADA Catalog offers resources for National Children’s Dental Health Month activities, which the ADA sponsors annually in February to raise awareness about the importance of oral health.

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Dental implants are a viable alternative for compensating oligodontia in adolescents

ConclusionDental implant treatment in maturing adolescents with extensive oligodontia before is supported by the data of the present study. Providing that other treatment options are considered, the areas of skeletal growth are respected and the patients are well informed. To enhance quality of life of growing children with oligodontia clinicians are asked to evaluate their long?term outcome on dental implant treatment in adolescents. (Source: Clinical Oral Implants Research)
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Dentists remain cautious about economy, ADA survey shows

Dentists are more optimistic about the economy than they were at this time last year, but they still are far from being fully confident, according to new survey results.

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Sir Arnold Bax

“A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, “You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing.””
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Marginal bone loss as success criterion in implant dentistry: beyond 2 mm

ConclusionImplants with increased MBL rates at early stages (healing and immediate post?loading periods) are likely to reach MBL values that compromise their final outcome. Initial (healing, immediate post?loading) MBL rates around an implant of more than 0.44 mm/year are an indication of peri?implant bone loss progression. (Source: Clinical Oral Implants Research)
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Now, smart toothbrush that ‘can track and improve your dental hygiene’

Kolibree’s smart toothbrush analyzes your brushing and lets you track your habits over time through an app for Android and iOS devices, the Verge reported.

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Snapshots of American Dentistry-Dec. 9

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Andre Malraux

“The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.”
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Peri?implant conditions around sintered porous?surfaced (SPS) implants. A 36?month prospective cohort study

ConclusionThis prospective cohort study revealed that the biological behavior of SPS implant system was characterized by high tissue stability during the observation period, both as regards soft and hard tissues. In particular, the crestal bone remodeling pattern was very similar to that reported in other studies, confirming that the bone loss around SPS implants, at least at 36 months, seems to be predictable. (Source: Clinical Oral Implants Research)

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Program provides free dental care to Wis. homeless

That’s where she first heard about the Madison Dental Initiative. Thames was afraid to go to the dentist, she recalls, but was in an awful lot of pain with what turned out to be a mouth full of diseased teeth.

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