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.
Getting inoculated with a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine may change a person’s oral microbiome for the better. The vaccines could have a direct positive effect on oral health conditions, according to a recent study published in BMC Oral Health. Vaccination for COVID-19 may significantly increase oral bacteria diversity and dramatically decrease Bacteroides, a genus of bacteria naturally found in the body that are not pathogenic to specific oral diseases but can
Designer braces provider WildSmiles has partnered with orthodontic and dental marketing company Kaleidoscope. The partnership will provide WildSmiles customers with consumer-focused marketing on the web, social media, and in-office displays with exclusive WildSmiles and Disney products.
Researchers from the University of Colorado (CU) School of Dental Medicine in Aurora, CO, have created a targeted, antibiotic, regenerative dental coating that hampers bacteria that causes caries, paving the way for a new method to prevent tooth decay. In addition to inhibiting cavity-causing oral germs, the new coating material made of acrylated hydroxyazobenzenes (AHA) sheds bacterial biofilms and helps regenerate dental pulp that houses the connective tissue, blood vessels,
A Wisconsin dentist was convicted on March 10 of multiple counts of fraud and making false statements, according to a press release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Eastern District of Wisconsin. The dentist reportedly used his drill to damage patients’ teeth so he could bill insurance for crowns instead of fillings. Following a U.S. grand jury trial, Dr. Scott Charmoli was convicted of five counts of healthcare fraud and
Holistic Health Therapeutics plans to highlight its transdermal relief cream at the 2022 Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting to be held March 17-19 in Atlanta. The cream offers relief to patients suffering from acute or chronic craniofacial pain and is an alternative to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatories, analgesics, and opioids, the company said. It is indicated for use with temporomandibular joint and muscle disorders, myofascial pain, and postoperative pain from extractions for