Pediatrics: Page 131

Ad Council launches landmark kids' oral health campaign

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The Ad Council is joining the Partnership for Healthy Mouths, Healthy Lives -- a coalition of more than 35 leading dental health organizations -- to teach parents, caregivers, and children about the importance of oral health.

August 13, 2012

Colgate asked to drop whitening toothpaste claims

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The National Advertising Division of the Council of Better Business Bureaus is recommending that Colgate-Palmolive discontinue certain marketing claims for its Optic White toothpaste, including "Same Whitening Ingredient as Strips."

August 13, 2012

Poor oral health can mean missed school, lower grades

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Poor oral health, dental disease, and tooth pain can put kids at a serious disadvantage in school, according to researchers from the Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California.

August 12, 2012

Brazil's new middle class invests in orthodontics

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Brazil's burgeoning middle class is using its new-found disposable income to invest in the latest status symbols -- including straight, white teeth.

August 12, 2012

Calif. balks at expanding dental managed care scheme

By Donna Domino

California's efforts to expand Medi-Cal dental services to a managed care model have been rebuffed after a pilot program designed to test the scheme failed to provide adequate dental care for children in Sacramento County.

August 12, 2012

Which common meds put pregnant women, infants at risk?

By Kathy Kincade

Dentists should be familiar with the risks that five types of medications commonly used in dentistry pose for pregnant and breast-feeding patients, according to an article in the current Journal of the American Dental Association. Some of them might surprise you.

August 8, 2012

Xylitol/sorbitol gum + toothbrushing can reduce plaque

By Rabia Mughal

While the benefits of sugar-free gum for caries prevention have been well documented in the literature, a new study has found that sugar-free chewing gum used as an adjunct to toothbrushing may provide a small but significant reduction in plaque.

August 8, 2012

U.K. health groups urge color-coded nutrition labels

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The British Dental Health Foundation is supporting an initiative to color-code the front labeling of food products to help consumers make healthier food choices.

August 7, 2012

PerioChip available online for U.S. market

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Dexcel Pharma Technologies' PerioChip for dental professionals is now available in the U.S. market through its new website.

August 6, 2012

Blood pressure meds linked to lip cancer risk

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Long-term use of photosensitizing antihypertensive drugs increase the risk for lip cancer by two- to fourfold, according to a new study in Archives of Internal Medicine.

August 6, 2012

Oragenics forms strategic partnership for S. America

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Oragenics has entered into a new, three-year contract with Central Business USA that makes Central Business USA the exclusive distributor of Oragenics' oral care probiotics in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay.

August 5, 2012

Recruiters target Medicaid youths for dental treatment

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Recruiters for a Texas dentist have been soliciting young people on the street and taking them to his clinic for procedures, allegedly without their parents' permission.

August 5, 2012

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