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Smile Reminder teams with CareCredit
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Smile Reminder and CareCredit have created the CareCredit Edition of Smile Reminder, designed to help practices that offer CareCredit enhance and streamline their patient communications.
December 13, 2010
Patient compliance with retainers declines over time
By Rabia Mughal
A new study that followed 428 orthodontic patients for two years after debonding has found that although compliance rates tended to decrease over time, most patients continued to wear their retainers at least one night per week.
December 13, 2010
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Dr. Fresh to offer special discounts in Feb.
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Dr. Fresh has relaunched its professional website with a new look and special offers for National Children's Dental Health Month in February.
December 12, 2010
Acrylic dentures show weakness for biofilms
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
Acrylic dentures can make patients more susceptible to Candida albicans infections and stomatitis, according to a new study in Molecular Oral Microbiology.
December 12, 2010
Oral microbiomes offer insight into human disease
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The first metagenomic analysis of a bacterial immune system in humans over time has found that the defenses of the oral microbiome are unique and traceable, information that could help personalize oral healthcare in the future, according to a study in Genome Research.
December 12, 2010
Age, gender affect third-molar surgery recovery
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
A patient's age and gender can play a key role in how comfortably and quickly they recover from third-molar surgery, according to a new study in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics.
December 12, 2010
Mo. charity donates $80K for kids' dental care
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The Daughters of Charity Foundation of St. Louis has approved an $80,000 grant to Give Kids A Smile to provide preventive and restorative services to babies, toddlers, and preschool-aged children.
December 12, 2010
First aid kits should have tooth-saving systems
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The Mayo Clinic advises that first aid kits should have the Save-A-Tooth emergency tooth-preserving system that can save knocked out teeth, according to Phoenix-Lazerus, the manufacturer of the tooth storage device.
December 12, 2010
Medicare changes coverage for sleep apnea appliances
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The Durable Medical Equipment Medicare Administrative Contractors has released a new local coverage determination for oral appliances used in the treatment of sleep apnea, according to a story in Sleep Review.
December 12, 2010
Zometa aids patients with head and neck cancer
By DrBicuspid.com staff writers
The bisphosphonate Zometa appears to reduce bone loss and decrease tumor size in patients with head and neck cancer, according to a study in Cancer Research.
December 12, 2010
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WHO report lays groundwork for amalgam use-reduction laws
By Rob Goszkowski
The World Health Organization (WHO) is set to issue a report that confirms the ongoing need for amalgam and outlines the risks of an outright ban on the material, but also sets the stage for phasing down its use worldwide.
December 12, 2010
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W.Va. puts dental clinics in grade schools
By Rob Goszkowski
A grassroots effort to address the access-to-care issue in West Virginia has yielded a school-based dental clinic program that is bringing much needed oral health services to the state's most underserved regions.
December 9, 2010
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