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Dr. Fresh offers special price on FireFly toothbrushes
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Dentists across the U.S. will once again collect excess candy from young patients on November 1 as part of the 9th annual Halloween Candy Buy Back Program. And Dr. Fresh is offering a special promotional price to dentists who participate in the program.
September 20, 2012
Calif. dentist faces trial in disabled son's death
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A Coalinga, CA, dentist whose developmentally disabled son died after the dentist gave him Valium and morphine before treating an abscessed tooth has been ordered to stand trial by a Fresno County Superior Court judge.
September 20, 2012
NY inmates sue over lack of dental floss
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A group of inmates in a New York county jail is suing the Westchester County Department of Corrections for $500 million over dental floss -- or lack thereof, according to a story in the Journal News.
September 20, 2012
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
Ultrathin 'artificial enamel' may have myriad dental uses
By Rob Goszkowski
Japanese researchers have created an ultrathin, flexible hydroxyapatite sheet that could have several applications in restorative and cosmetic dentistry, from preventing decay and restoring enamel to giving teeth a whiter appearance.
September 20, 2012
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Anlit offers probiotic oral health supplement for kids
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Anlit Advanced Nutrition Supplements, a developer of consumer vitamins, minerals, and dietary supplements for children, will present a new, child-friendly supplement for oral health next month at CPhI Worldwide in Madrid, Spain.
September 19, 2012
FDA OKs Zimmer's implant description 'osseoincorporation'
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Zimmer Dental has received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use the term "osseoincorporation" in describing the bone-healing process made possible with its Zimmer Trabecular Metal dental implant.
September 19, 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
Study links BPA to childhood obesity
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Children and adolescents with higher concentrations of urinary bisphenol A (BPA) face had significantly increased odds of being obese, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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
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