Have you ever experience a serious dental injury? They can really affect the aesthetic and function of your smile. When you suffer something serious you need to be treated by a specialist. Oral and maxillofacial surgery is the specialty of dentistry which includes the diagnosis, surgical and adjunctive treatment to correct any kind of problem with the mouth, jaws, cheeks, nose, eye sockets, and forehead. The face, neck, and jaw
Dear DrBicuspid Member, The biggest story in dentistry this week was the announcement that medical device company Align Technology must close its Invisalign stores after an arbitrator ruled that it violated its noncompete agreement with SmileDirectClub. Align Technology must also sell back its 17% share in SmileDirectClub. Interactive technology and online toothbrushes were two of the trends HuangshanDental.com Associate Editor Theresa Pablos noted at the recent Chicago Dental Society 2019
You know you should brush and floss twice a day every day. But what’s the deal with mouthwash? Is it even important to dental care? Do you really need it? Absolutely! Mouthwash is a liquid. It has the unique ability to access all areas of the mouth — the back teeth, the roof of your mouth, in-between the teeth — places a brush and even dental floss cannot. Mouthwash destroys
Richard Kao, DDS, president of the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP), sat down with HuangshanDental.com at the recent Chicago Dental Society 2019 Midwinter Meeting to talk about the academy’s classification system for periodontal disease and the upcoming report on changing the gingival phenotype to prepare a patient for implants or orthodontics. The new classification system was introduced in 2018 when the Journal of Periodontology published the proceedings from the World
What in the world is functional this or functional that? The term functional medicine is being used throughout the alternative medicine community. And now, there is a new term on the block: functional dentistry. What if functional dentistry could identify the essential causes of dental diseases — once and for all? Intent The adjective functional in functional medicine and functional dentistry attempts to describe the intent of determining the most
Medical device company Align Technology has announced that it will close its Invisalign stores after an arbitrator ruled that it violated its noncompete agreement with SmileDirectClub (SDC). The decision also prohibits Align Technology from providing certain services in physical retail establishments in connection with the marketing and sale of clear aligners. The arbitration began in April 2018, and the ruling was released on March 4. The first Invisalign stores opened
Scott Gottlieb, MD, has resigned as the commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Dr. Gottlieb has served as the FDA commissioner since May 2017. He will leave his current post sometime in the next month, according to a multiple published reports. In a tweet, U.S. President Donald Trump praised Dr. Gottlieb for his service, stating the commissioner’s talents will be greatly missed. During his tenure, Dr. Gottlieb took an aggressive
What might motivate parents to take steps that could prevent early childhood caries (ECC)? To find out, researchers studied the emotional responses of mothers of 1-year-old children to visual stimuli and text related to the risks of developing dental caries. In this pilot study, investigators found that visual stimuli with negative pictorial and text warnings produced the strongest emotional responses. They identified stimuli that could be used in future motivational
What are All-on-4, All-on-6, and All-on-8 dental implants? They’re implants you can use to replace your missing teeth if you have most or all of your teeth missing. Dental implants are your permanent solution for tooth loss aside from using a bridge between two remaining natural teeth serving as its anchors. The implants serves as the anchors for the dental bridges that you can connect together to form a row or rows
A dental implant is when you put metal frames or a post into the mouth, positioning them into the jawbone and tooth socket wherein your missing tooth used to be by means of surgery. This procedure entails the studies of dental surgery and dental prosthetics combined. It screws the implant tight unto the jawbone beneath your gums itself. Bone-grafting and gum-grafting might also be called for in case you lack a jawbone
You are spending time playing and biting ice inside your mouth when you noticed that there is something hard that did not break down. That hard material can be your chipped tooth. Chipping a tooth can result from different instances – using your teeth to open packages, eating hard foods, playing some physical sports and being hit in the face or mouth, falling, etc. The enamel is the hardest part
The Thantakit International Dental Center is the first dental clinic in Thailand to pioneer the dental implant treatment in 1973 and the Invisalign treatment in 2002. It is considered one of the oldest and most esteemed Bangkok dental centers. Housed in a 5-storey Central Bangkok building, Thantakit has been practicing the art of dentistry for more than half a century – 70 years to be exact. Thantakit International Dental Center employs sophisticated dental technology – such
