Week in Review: Kids’ dental screenings | Fluoridation and caries | Cancer’s oral health damage

Dear DrBicuspid Member, February is Children’s Dental Health Month. We kick off our coverage with a look at how difficult it is to have children receive dental screenings before the school year. The District of Columbia and 14 U.S. states have passed laws encouraging this, but these laws struggle to have a measurable impact, according to a report published on January 31. This may be something that seemed intuitive, but

How Much Does Dental Work in Mexico Cost in 2023?

Have you been avoiding going to the dentist for many years? When the time came for you to assist in your dental appointment, did your doctor tell you to need extensive dental procedures you cannot afford? This might be a great time for you to get a dental vacation in Mexico and save up to 70% on dental Mexico. Thanks to its proximity between countries, Americans, and Canadians have chosen

Water fluoridation may reduce caries disparities

Community water fluoridation may reduce dental caries disparities due to income levels, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics. Researchers found low-income children were less likely to experience caries in their primary teeth if they lived in fluoridated counties. The study investigated various factors that influence caries development, including family income-to-poverty ratio, county fluoridation status, and time since last dental visit. “By age 11 years, an American child

Does Ice Cream Hurt? What Tooth Pain is Trying to Tell You

Does it hurt to eat ice cream, suck on an ice cube, or even drink a cold glass of water? You’re experiencing tooth sensitivity — a kind of dental pain — which means your teeth are trying to tell you something. What is Tooth Sensitivity? Tooth sensitivity is a kind of dental pain that happens when the gums recede or the enamel protecting your teeth wears away. This exposes

Liquid medications pose risk for cancer patients’ oral health

Liquid formulations of medications are often prescribed for patients who are receiving treatment for cancer. These patients may have problems swallowing capsules or tablets, which makes liquid formulations a superior, or even necessary, option. Jill Meyer-Lippert, RDH. However, oral liquid suspensions of antibiotics, antifungals, and analgesics may contain varying levels of sugar, mainly sucrose. This sugar is used to make medications more palatable, to act as a solvent, demulcent, and

Top 5 Best dentists in Los Algodones according by patients

When you’re looking for a dentist, you’re searching for more than someone to just clean your teeth, but sometimes the one we thought was the best, ends with a bad experience and paying a lot for bad dental work. Devote more time to searching for a good dentist, help you find exactly what you’re looking for, and keep you away from spending a lot of money and having bad experiences.

Elevate Oral Care relaunches pediatric ID system

Elevate Oral Care has relaunched the Toothprints dental identification system. The system collects a bite impression and a salivary DNA sample from a pediatric patient. The imprint and DNA can then be stored by the patient’s parents to provide identification services in case a child is missing, according to Elevate Oral Care.

Align Tech reports increased Q4, 2018 revenues

Medical device company Align Technology has reported increases in revenues and clear-aligner shipments for the fourth quarter of 2018 and the year. For the quarter (end-December 31, 2018), the company reported net revenues of $534.0 million, up from $421.3 million from the same quarter in 2017. The company also reported that shipments of its clear-aligner product totaled 333,800 for the quarter, compared with 255,000 from the same period in 2017. The company’s

Proximity to periodontal care doesn’t equate to access

Most people in the U.S. live within a reasonable distance of a periodontal practice, according to a November 2018 report. The researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that 97% of U.S. adults between the ages of 30 and 79 reside within a 50-mile radius of a periodontist. They also reported that 60% of these adults are no more than 5 miles away from the nearest gum

Which technologies are best for removing filling material?

No shaping file system completely removes root canal filling material during retreatment, but passive ultrasonic irrigation and other treatments may be helpful. To learn more about the best devices for this task, researchers compared retreatment with two shaping file systems and two irrigation devices in extracted molars. After preparation and obturation, researchers retreated the teeth with either the Reciproc R25 instrument (VDW) or the TS2 file of 2Shape (Micro-Mega), then

All On 4 Dental Implants in Los Algodones

As we age, tooth loss can be very common. Dental Implants can be a solution if you are missing just a couple of teeth, but what happens if you want to replace more than just a few to get your smile back? If you are on the search to recover most or all of your teeth, you might be interested in the All On 4 Dental Implants. It works just

Dentsply Sirona partners on denture printing

Denstply Sirona has announced a collaboration with digital manufacturing company Carbon to bring a premium printable denture material system to market. Carbon’s 3D printers use light and oxygen to produce high-quality end-use products from a pool of resin. Dentsply Sirona will introduce new denture materials for use in Carbon’s 3D printers. The materials are expected to be introduced to the U.S. market in 2019, according to Dentsply Sirona.