Oral-Systemic Link: Page 65

Surgeon general updates tobacco, oral health links

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The U.S. surgeon general's 50th anniversary review of tobacco science and research adds to the evidence of oral health problems from tobacco use while continuing to expand the list of associated health problems.

January 19, 2014

DrBicuspid.com Oral Cancer & Diagnostics Insider

By Donna Domino

January 15, 2014

LED Medical develops risk assessment test for oral cancer

By Donna Domino

LED Medical Diagnostics has signed an agreement with two Canadian research groups to create and market a progression risk assessment test for oral cancer. The test is based on a quantifiable genetic phenomenon known as "loss of heterozygosity."

January 15, 2014

U.K. dentist: HPV vaccine should be offered to men

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The U.K.'s policy of offering the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine only to women is unfair and unethical to men, according to a member of Parliament who is also a practicing dentist.

January 13, 2014

Grant awarded to improve oral health of diabetes patients

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The DentaQuest Foundation has awarded a $186,000 grant to support a Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation pilot project designed to improve oral health of people with diabetes.

January 12, 2014

LED Dental launches new website for VELscope

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

LED Dental has a new website at VELscope.com.

January 12, 2014

OralID now includes SmartFilterID camera filter

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Forward Science is now offering a SmartFilterID camera filter with the purchase of the OralID, an oral cancer screening device that uses fluorescence technology.

January 8, 2014

Study finds increased activity of oncogene in HNC

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The increased activation of a key oncogene in head and neck cancers (HNCs) could be the result of mutation and dysfunction of regulatory proteins that are supposed to keep the gene in check, according to a new study.

January 8, 2014

Biomarker may improve diagnosis of esophageal SCC

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Researchers in Singapore have discovered a biomarker that may improve the diagnosis and treatment of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (SCC), according to a new study in Cancer Research.

January 7, 2014

Basaloid SCC not an adverse factor for head/neck cancer

By Donna Domino

Compared with squamous cell carcinoma, basaloid squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is not an independent adverse prognostic factor for head and neck cancer patients, according to a new study in JAMA Otolaryngology -- Head & Neck Surgery.

January 6, 2014

Device identifies cancer cells by electrical properties

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

British researchers have developed a device that can differentiate between normal and unhealthy cells by analyzing their electrical properties, which may provide early detection of oral cancer and other medical conditions.

January 5, 2014

Obesity & perio therapy; the oral-systemic link; and Moby Dick's dental connection

By Tony Edwards

January 1, 2014

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