Dental Hygiene: Page 340

UF provides pediatric dental sedation training
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The University of Florida (UF) College of Dentistry in Gainesville is helping pediatric dentists get specialized training in dental sedation and office emergency preparedness.
May 22, 2013
Kerox joins IdentAlloy materials verification program
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Labs sourcing zirconium oxide blanks and blocks from Kerox Dental will now have the products' content verified through the IdentAlloy/IdentCeram Council's materials certification program, the company announced.
May 21, 2013
Who gets more oral cancer exams, smokers or drinkers?
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Smokers do not receive oral cancer exams at a rate consistent with their risk of developing oral cancer, according to a new study in the Journal of Public Health Dentistry.
May 21, 2013
Can primary care physicians help prevent dental caries?
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force this week released a draft evidence report and draft recommendation statement on how primary care physicians can help prevent dental caries in young children (birth through age 5 years).
May 21, 2013
Listerine ad banned for oral health claim
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A U.K. radio advertisement for Listerine stating that "brushing alone isn't enough" has been banned by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following a complaint that the claim was misleading and unsubstantiated.
May 21, 2013
Voters reject water fluoridation in Portland, Ore.
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Voters in Portland, OR, definitively rejected water fluoridation May 21 for the fourth time in the city's history since 1956 with a 60%-40% split, the Oregonian reported.
May 21, 2013
Brasseler offers hands-on product experience at trade shows
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Brasseler USA has added a new feature to its trade show presence by dedicating a substantial portion of its exhibit booth to the Innovation Station.
May 20, 2013
NM offers aid to patients of nondentist
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The New Mexico Department of Health is offering free counseling and blood tests to those who received dental services in their homes or other nonclinic settings, particularly former patients of a man known as "El Dentista" and other names, including Eliver Kestler or Eliver Lopez.
May 20, 2013
Leaders in Dentistry: Dr. Ezra Cohen
By Donna Domino
Ezra Cohen, MD, an associate professor of medicine and the co-director of the head and neck cancer program at the University of Chicago, has spent much of his career studying head and neck, thyroid, and salivary gland cancers and therapies. What does he see as the next big advance in oral cancer diagnosis and treatment?
May 20, 2013
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Wide-area biopsy can detect esophageal dysplasia
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
CDx Diagnostics has released data that support the company's WATS3D (wide-area transepithelial sample biopsy with 3D analysis) as an additional surveillance tool to increase detection of dysplasia and Barrett's esophagus.
May 19, 2013
Genetic diversity predicts head/neck cancer
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A new measure of the heterogeneity of cells within a tumor appears to predict treatment outcomes of patients with the most common type of head and neck cancer, according to a new study in Cancer.
May 19, 2013
Maine debates dental therapist bill; experts tackle implant complications
By Kathy Kincade
May 19, 2013
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