The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) announced new officers and trustees inducted during its annual meeting in Chicago May 27. John R. Liu, D.D.S., president: Dr. Liu has a private practice in Issaquah, WA, and has been an AAPD member for 22 years. Most recently, Dr. Liu has served as the AAPD’s vice president (2008-2009), secretary-treasurer (2007-2008), and trustee at large. Dr. Liu said that in his term of
Komet USA has introduced four diamonds designed to recontour and mill zirconia restorations, the company announced. Kit 4432 contains four diamonds (medium, fine, extra fine, and ultra fine grits) for grinding zirconia primary crowns. Due to its high resistance, zirconia is not easy to work on. Although the main cutting and grinding in the lab is carried out by the CAD/CAM system, manual reworking by technicians is often still necessary
Oragenics, makers of ProBiora probiotic treatment for oral diseases, has received a National Science Foundation grant of $500,000 to support its research into a new antibiotic with potential against bacteria resistant to other antibiotics. The money supplements a previous grant to support the company’s lantibiotic synthesis platform. The antibiotics made with the platform have proved effective preclinically against Gram-positive bacteria, including methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), and Clostridium,
Untreated tooth decay in mothers almost doubles the odds of tooth decay in their children, according to a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) study that examined the oral health of rural Hispanic families (Journal of Dental Research, May 2010). The population-based study included low-income Hispanic families working in agriculture in a small, rural community in California’s Central Valley. The analysis included 179 mothers and their 387 children, and found
An effort to reduce cavities by applying fluoride varnish and sealants in Pierce County, WA, schoolchildren failed, the county health department reported this month. While those children who got sealants had less tooth decay, most didn’t get sealants because of difficulties in securing parental consent, according to the report by the Tacoma-Pierce County Health Department. Migration of families and the recession may have confounded the results, the report stated. The
A synthetic biphasic calcium phosphate material proved as reliable after a year as deproteinized cow bone for sinus augmentation in a clinical implant trial reported online May 11 in Clinical Implant Dentistry and Related Research. Researchers from Gayle County Hospital, Göteborg University, and other Swedish institutions said they used the two materials on each side of the mouths of nine edentulous patients and two partially edentulous patients with a bilateral
Sybron Dental Specialties has donated dental products valued at more than $39,000 to National Children’s Oral Health Foundation (NCOHF) to provide vital dental treatment for children from vulnerable populations. The Children’s Dental Center of Greater Los Angeles, a member of the NCOHF affiliate network, received the donation of dental products to expand and enhance oral health services for underserved pediatric patients in the Los Angeles area, according to the foundation
Biolux Research will present results from its accelerated orthodontics research program next month at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) meeting in Barcelona, Spain. Principal investigator Alpdogan Kantarci, D.D.S., Ph.D., an associate professor of periodontology and oral biology at Boston University, will share findings from a study that examined the effects of noninvasive photobiomodulation on tooth movement in an animal model. Effects of treatment on quantity of tooth movement,
A global ban on amalgam would be “problematic” in the near term, but the United Nations should pursue measures to “phasedown” the material, a World Health Organization (WHO) expert said at a conference on mercury reduction. Carolyn Vickers spoke June 11 on behalf of WHO at a meeting of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where representatives from around the world are trying to negotiate
Aurum Ceramic Dental Laboratories is now offering Opalite all-zirconia crowns and bridges as an aesthetic alternative to metal occlusion or full-cast posterior, the company announced. Created from monolithic, solid medical-grade zirconia, each CAD/CAM-milled Opalite restoration is hard-sintered to reach a final flexural strength of 1,100 MPa, more than enough to meet posterior high load demands, the company said. In addition, as little as 0.5 mm occlusal reduction is required, far less
Dental Optimizer, a free online oral health application, now features a pharmacy module designed to allow patients to find out if the medications they are taking may impact their oral health. In addition to learning about the side effects of their medications, users can access recommendations from dentists and pharmacists aimed at helping them alleviate potential oral health issues. “Medication-related oral health side effects range from relatively mild to some
Achieving a perfect shade match is always a challenge. One trick to achieving better results is to rearrange the Vita Classical shade guide according to value. It has been suggested that using this approach can yield more successful color determination because human vision is more sensitive to changes in value than in hue. But new research to be presented at the upcoming International Association for Dental Research (IADR) conference in
