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How can dentists help reduce dental sports injuries?

By Lori Roniger

Dental trauma in sports may be more common than you think. To further develop injury prevention strategies, researchers investigated dental injury rates in young athletes playing medium- and high-risk sports, as well as the players' awareness and use of strategies to minimize them.

March 21, 2018

New study links missing teeth and diabetes risk

By Tony Edwards

Is there a link between missing teeth and a patient's risk of developing diabetes? The findings of a new study, presented on March 19 at the 2018 Endocrine Society annual meeting, suggest there is. Researchers found a connection between a decline in glucose tolerance and an increased number of missing teeth.

March 20, 2018

Aging reduces translucency of zirconia ceramics

By Tony Edwards

Teeth become more translucent as we age, but is the same true for uncolored zirconia ceramic restorations? Researchers put four of these restorative materials through an aging process to find out if their translucency changed over time and if these changes were noticeable to the human eye.

March 20, 2018

Biolase reports decreased revenues in Q4, 2017

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Laser and CAD/CAM scanner company Biolase has reported a decrease in net revenues for the fiscal fourth quarter of 2017 and the year.

March 14, 2018

ADA releases revised book on water fluoridation

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The ADA has released the 2018 edition of Fluoridation Facts.

March 14, 2018

Southern Implants gets FDA clearance for 2 new implants

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Dental implant company Southern Implants has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for two new implants.

March 14, 2018

Cosmetic Dentistry Insider: Aging reduces translucency of zirconia composites

By Tony Edwards

March 13, 2018

UNLV dental school warns of possible implant failure

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Dental Medicine is informing more than 180 patients that the implant they received at the school's Faculty Dental Practice may fail.

March 13, 2018

Legal Cases: Implant placement into the maxillary sinus

By William S. Spiegel and Marc R. Leffler, DDS

A group practice's dentists proposed a treatment plan of three implants for a 60-year-old man with missing teeth. However, after the implants were placed, an x-ray showed one of the implants projected beyond the bony floor of the patient's sinuses. As William S. Spiegel and Dr. Marc Leffler write, sometimes there is a difference between acceptable clinical practice and what a jury may see.

March 13, 2018

CDC investigates cluster of dentists with lung disease

By Tony Edwards

A March 9 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) detailed a cluster of nine cases of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis among dental personnel treated at one care center in Virginia from 2000 to 2015. Occupational exposure to dental materials may be the culprit behind these cases, the authors speculated.

March 12, 2018

Infographic: 12M U.S. kids live with untreated decay

By Theresa Pablos

More than 12 million children experienced untreated coronal caries between 2011 and 2014, even in the era of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The statistic comes from a new study that looked at demographic and socioeconomic factors associated with untreated decay.

March 12, 2018

Could nanotechnology ease orthodontic surgery?

By Lori Roniger

What if the invasiveness of orthodontic surgery could be supplanted by something kinder and gentler for patients with a severe malocclusion? Enter a novel developing technology that uses nanoparticles containing a deactivated form of collagenase to remodel oral tissue.

March 7, 2018

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