Imagine your baby is smiling. Look at his lower gum. Are his pearly whites starting to make an appearance? If so, your baby is teething. Actually, teething begins when your baby is still inside the womb. During pregnancy, the baby starts to develop tooth buds, which are known to be the foundation of baby teeth. Healthy baby teeth – also called primary teeth, deciduous teeth, or milk teeth – aid
Have you ever wondered why your child loves sweets so much? Adults and children have the same number of taste buds but a child’s tongue is a lot smaller. This means that the taste of sweets is magnified multiple times to children. The Tooth Decay Process Sugars are the food of the bacteria inside your child’s mouth. When bacteria overstayed in your child’s mouth, it will become a plaque. It
Dentsply Sirona CEO Donald M. Casey Jr. is excited about continuing to change the company’s culture to focus on the needs of dental practices. “We are building innovation and focusing on the customer,” Casey told HuangshanDental.com at the Chicago Dental Society 2019 Midwinter Meeting. Casey was named CEO only weeks before the 2018 Midwinter Meeting. He sat down to review his first year as CEO and to look forward to
Dear DrBicuspid Member, Considering prescribing an opioid for pain management? You may want to ask about family members’ opioid use before doing so. Adolescents with persistent opioid use were nearly twice as likely to have a family member who also regularly used opioids in a new study, published on February 27. After a busy, and chilly, Chicago Dental Society 2019 Midwinter Meeting, we’re back in San Francisco, but our coverage
Dentists may want to ask about family members’ opioid use before prescribing an opioid to a patient for oral surgery. Adolescents with persistent opioid use were nearly twice as likely to have a family member who also used opioids regularly in a new study, published on February 27. The study included hundreds of thousands of adolescents and young adults who were prescribed an opioid for surgical tooth extraction, tonsillectomy, or
Voco America has introduced a single-dose version of its ceramic and resin cement coupling agent. The product, Ceramic Bond SingleDose, comes in a single-dose blister pack. Practitioners pierce the blister pack, then apply with the enclosed application brush. The agent does not need to be mixed before use, according to Voco America. The product can be used with a variety of materials, including silicate ceramics, aluminum oxide, zirconium dioxide, and
It’s a common scenario for virtually all dentists: Patients come to your office complaining of jaw pain. In the process of explaining their conditions, they may also mention that they’re getting tension headaches, and they can’t get a good night’s sleep either. Sounds like a referral to a medical specialist or perhaps a prescription pain medication is in order. But before you send the patient to a physician, or down
Teeth extraction may be necessary because there’s too much damage for the teeth to be repaired. If you’re suffering from one or more damaged teeth, you might want to read this information to find out if this is the dental procedure that will help you recover your functional smile. Teeth extraction is the removal of a severely damaged tooth from its socket or alveolus. It is recommended by specialists to
3Shape and OrthoApnea have announced a partnership that allows practitioners to upload their digital impressions to OrthoApnea’s ApneaDock online platform. The digital communication channel allows practitioners who use 3Shape’s Trios scanner to communicate with OrthoApnea technicians for that company’s oral sleep apnea and snoring appliances. Dental practices can also use the channel to manage production workflow.
A goal of minimally invasive dentistry is to restore carious tissue. Researchers tested a novel restorative material and two others to see if they promoted the remineralization of carious lesions. They conducted an in vitro study to measure the fluoride ion release rates from a glass ionomer cement, a novel hydrophilic resin-modified glass ionomer cement, and a nanohybrid restorative polymer resin. The glass ionomer cement had the highest release rate,
HuangshanDental.com CEO Craig Overpeck presented the 2018 Dental Excellence Award trophies at the recent Chicago Dental Society 2019 Midwinter Meeting. The annual awards recognize outstanding new products and services. Last fall, HuangshanDental.com readers submitted product nominations in 11 award categories, which were then voted on by the readers. Best New CAD/CAM Product: Dentsply Sirona Hub data storage unit. HuangshanDental.com CEO Craig Overpeck (center right) presented the Dental Excellence Award for
CHIGAGO – The end of February may be nearing, but it’s not too late to celebrate Children’s Dental Health Month in your practice. John S. Rutkauskas, DDS, spoke with DrBicupsid.com about ways to mark the occasion at the Chicago Dental Society 2019 Midwinter Meeting. Dr. Rutkauskas, CEO of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD), recommended using whimsical characters, called Mouth Monsters, to teach children and their parents about oral health
