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Dentist climbs Mt. Kilimanjaro to raise awareness, money for diabetes

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A Kentucky dentist will climb Mount Kilimanjaro to raise awareness and money for diabetes on behalf of his wife who has diabetes.

January 23, 2014

LED Dental, Patterson Dental sign distribution deal

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

LED Medical Diagnostics announced that its U.S. subsidiary LED Dental has entered into a nonexclusive partnership with Patterson Dental.

January 22, 2014

New imaging system can detect malignant and premalignant tumors

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A team of Indian researchers has developed a noninvasive spectral imaging system that could provide rapid, inexpensive mass screening for oral cancers in dental and clinical settings.

January 21, 2014

Association of marijuana use with HNC differs by tumor site

By Donna Domino

Marijuana smokers have an elevated risk of a certain type of head and neck cancer (HNC) but a reduced risk of tongue cancer, according to a new study in Cancer Epidemiology Biomarkers & Prevention. But the authors noted that human papillomavirus infection could explain the increased risk among marijuana smokers.

January 21, 2014

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

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