Oral-Systemic Link: Page 91

Billboards, radio ads deliver effective oral cancer message
By Kathy Kincade
A two-year media campaign in Detroit that utilized print, radio, billboards, and mailed surveys was effective in raising public awareness of oral cancer and influencing healthcare providers to screen for the disease, according to a study in the Journal of the American Dental Association.
September 24, 2012
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French firm brings candidiasis drug to U.S.
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
BioAlliance Pharma has signed a licensing agreement with Vestiq Pharmaceuticals to commercialize its Oravig product in the U.S. for the treatment of oropharyngeal candidiasis in adults.
September 23, 2012
FTC: Tobacco firms spending less on advertising
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The amount spent on cigarette advertising and promotion by the largest cigarette companies in the U.S. declined from $9.94 billion in 2008 to $8.53 billion in 2009, and again to $8.05 billion in 2010, according to a new report from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC).
September 23, 2012
LED Dental to sell VELscope directly
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
LED Dental has amended its distribution agreement with Henry Schein and will now sell its VELscope Vx product directly to customers.
September 23, 2012
Henry Schein to be exclusive Identafi distributor
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
DentalEZ Group has signed a letter of intent to make Henry Schein the exclusive global distributor of the Identafi oral cancer screening device, a product of DentalEZ's StarDental division.
September 23, 2012
Study links rapid weight gain with perio disease risk in men
By Rabia Mughal
Several studies have shown that obese patients are at an increased risk for periodontal disease. Now a new study in the Journal of Dental Research has found that tracking adiposity changes in men may help predict their risk of periodontitis progression.
September 23, 2012
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Secondhand smoke takes heavy physical, economic toll
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Secondhand smoke is accountable for 42,000 deaths annually to nonsmokers in the U.S., including nearly 900 infants, according to a new University of California, San Francisco study published in the American Journal of Public Health.
September 20, 2012
Lower income linked to later thyroid cancer diagnosis
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Thyroid cancer among people with lower socioeconomic status is diagnosed at a more advanced stage, according to new data presented this week at the American Thyroid Association annual meeting in Québec City.
September 20, 2012
Oral-systemic link offers dental hygienists great opportunity
By Rabia Mughal
If dental hygienists don't integrate the growing evidence on the oral-systemic link into their practices, they will have forfeited a great opportunity to define themselves as healers rather than mechanics, according to Casey Hein, BSDH, at the Pacific Dental Hygiene Conference in San Francisco last week.
September 19, 2012
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NIH grant to support PolyMedix oral mucositis treatment
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
PolyMedix has received a phase I grant from the National Cancer Institute division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to further explore the profile and properties of its defensin-mimetic compound, brilacidin, in treating oral mucositis.
September 18, 2012
Studies question value of certain HNC biomarkers
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Human papillomavirus DNA positivity alone, particularly when assessed using polymerase chain reaction methods, is a poor biomarker for HPV-driven head and neck cancers (HNCs), according to two studies published in Cancer Research.
September 18, 2012
Oral bacteria linked with pancreatic cancer risk
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A new study in the journal Gut has found significant associations between antibodies for multiple oral bacteria and the risk of pancreatic cancer. The authors speculate that the underlying mechanisms that link Porphyromonas gingivalis to pancreatic cancer could be causal but that more research is needed.
September 17, 2012
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