If you have a cosmetic dentistry procedure coming up it may be essential that you go and visit your general dentist first to ensure that your cosmetic dentist is able to perform the cosmetic dental procedure. By visiting your general dentist, he may be able to eliminate certain risk factors that would likely alleviate your cosmetic […]
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Wat is the Way to Prevent and Manage Jaw Bone Disease?
A review of more than a decade’s worth of research on osteonecrosis of the jaw- a jaw bone disease when the bone in the jaw is exposed and begins to starve from a lack of blood–points to an increased risk for patients taking certain drugs for osteoporosis, anticancer drugs or glucocorticoids, those undergoing dental surgery, […]
Dentists Save Lives
Think about the people who come to mind when you think about saving lives: firemen, policemen, emergency room physicians. But did you know that dentists save lives also? Your dentist knows a lot more about your overall health than you may think. By interpreting signs and symptoms appearing in your mouth your dentist can pinpoint […]
The Relationship between Tooth Loss and Declining Physical and Cognitive Function
The memory and walking speeds of adults who have lost all of their teeth decline more rapidly than in those who still have some of their own teeth, finds new UCL research. The study, published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, looked at 3,166 adults aged 60 or over from the English Longitudinal Study […]
Choosing the Right Dentist For Your Child
So you have a dentist you’ve been going to for most of your adult life. The dentist seems nice enough and you’ve had your occasional cavities filled with minimal issue. Now, later in your life, you’re fortunate enough to have a child who also needs dental care. Now think back to when you were a […]
Sugary drinks duty will save countless teeth, charity says
A 20p per litre duty on sugary drinks would help to eradicate tooth decay and save the NHS millions of pounds in wasted resources. The Children’s Food Campaign has published figures showing that the introduction of a 20 pence per litre duty on sugary drinks would benefit Londoners’ health, as well as save the NHS […]
Getting Over the Fear of Going to the Dentist
As if it were programmed into our genes, it seems as though many of us have this fear of going to the dentist. Maybe it is because of media influence; television movies, or maybe you had a bad experience as a child. Nonetheless, many people suffer from the fear of going to the dentist and […]
Research finds tooth enamel fast-track in humans
Research has discovered a link between prenatal enamel growth rates in teeth and weaning in human babies. The research found that incisor teeth grow quickly in the early stages of the second trimester of a baby’s development, while molars grow at a slower rate in the third trimester. This is so incisors are ready to […]
