Dental care is often overlooked by everyone; most people have the misconception that visiting the dentist’s office is only necessary when their teeth ache. Paying a visit to the dentist every now and then for a check-up can save you all the hassle that comes with any dental health-related issue, like infections. Tooth infections are usually more common than we’re told that they can be. The pace with which we
A consortium has been created to accelerate tissue engineering and regenerative therapies for dental, oral, and craniofacial tissue and oral regeneration to human clinical trials. The Dental, Oral & Craniofacial Tissue Regeneration Consortium (DOCTRC) will serve as the U.S. resource center for speeding these therapies, according to a presentation on March 24 at the 51st Annual Meeting & Exhibition of the American Association of Dental, Oral, and Craniofacial Research (AADOCR).
Dear Anesthesia & Pain Management Insider, A combination of the opioid class drug tramadol and nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID) dexketoprofen proved more effective than ibuprofen alone for managing pain after third-molar extraction. This opioid-NSAID combination is sold outside the U.S. and reportedly has a somewhat different effect than other types of similar medications. Read more in this edition’s Insider Exclusive. Also new in the Anesthesia & Pain Management Community, some
Some clinicians are urging dentists to use a new method to better monitor sedated dental patients after a 5-year-old boy didn’t wake up for an hour following intravenous sedation. The correspondence was published March 16 in the Journal of Dental Sciences. To combat the challenge of managing the accurate level of sedation of dental patients, dentists should consider using electroencephalographic density spectral array (DSA) monitoring. This monitoring system provides real-time
Dental implants have been around for a few years now. They’re the number #1 solution for patients who have lost a tooth or multiple and are looking to replace them. Dental implants are a post-like device that is installed in the socket that the lost tooth left behind. Dental implants are made out of different materials, usually metal or zirconia. Zirconia implants are a great option for patients who have
Do you encounter crazy assumptions about braces, such as caring for braces is challenging or that the pain braces cause is too much to handle? You can’t blame patients. If they are uninformed, it’s because they haven’t met a dental professional who knows how to explain orthodontic aftercare in simple terms. Dr. Satish Pai. As a dental professional, you can prevent your patients from committing a blunder after getting braces.
Imaging helped treat a healthy 17-year-old girl’s pseudoaneurysm, a rare, life-threatening vascular lesion, that developed following routine third-molar extractions. The case report was published in the March issue of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Cases. A few days after the extractions, the teen developed mouth pain and uncontrollable bleeding. A computed tomography angiography (CTA) showed a lesion emerging from the girl’s inferior alveolar branch of her right internal maxillary artery. An
Dear DrBicuspid Member, A Wisconsin dentist was convicted last week on multiple counts of fraud and making false statements in a scheme worth more than $4 million. The U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin claimed the dentist used his drill to damage patients’ teeth so he could bill insurance for crowns instead of fillings. Read more details in this week’s top story. If legal cases interest you, you
That dental problem you’ve been dealing with for the past few months has not improved at all; you probably shrugged it off as a simple toothache, or maybe you thought that pesky wisdom tooth would only grow out to a certain extent and stop there, but it didn’t. These problems have reached a point in which they started affecting your overall health and day-to-day life; the pain won’t let you
About 94% of U.S. adults plan to visit a dentist in 2022, according to survey findings recently published by Delta Dental. The company surveyed over 1,000 U.S. adults and their oral health behaviors as part of World Oral Health Day. Other findings from the survey include the following: ul.editorialList li {margin-bottom:12px;} About 3 in 4 U.S. adults (74%) credit the COVID-19 pandemic for making them more aware of their health.
The American Academy of Implant Dentistry (AAID) is calling for abstracts to be presented during table clinics at the 2022 AAID annual meeting, to be held in Dallas, TX, September 21-24. The AAID said anyone interested in sharing oral implantology research — including students, residents, educators, and private practice dentists — can submit, and complimentary 2022 annual meeting registration will be provided for up to two students per submission. The
Frontier Dental Laboratories has invested in California-based Burbank Dental Laboratory, which makes dental restoratives, including implants and dentures. The partnership is expected to position both companies for growth, but details of the investment were not disclosed. Currently, Burbank’s customer base includes more than 1,000 private practices, government institutions, and dental service organizations across the U.S. Additionally, Tony Sedler, Burbank’s president, will join Frontier’s board of directors.
