If you want your teenage patients to brush and floss regularly, you may want to text them. In a new study, teenage orthodontics patients who received daily text reminders showed remarkably improved oral hygiene within a few weeks. The teenagers’ scores for bleeding, plaque, and gingival indexes improved with daily text reminders, and the teens also reported that the frequent texts were helpful, with some patients wanting even more frequent
Dental implant surgery company Neocis has appointed three new vice presidents. The company appointed Christopher Sells as its new vice president for sales and marketing, Erik Beuckelaers as its new vice president for finance and human resources, and Dennis Moses as its new vice president for engineering. The new vice presidents will report directly to company CEO Alon Mozes.
How do potential patients and their families make decisions about undergoing orthodontic treatment? The process can be complicated, in part because of the treatment’s expense and largely cosmetic status, as well as the involvement of mental health factors. Researchers interviewed orthodontic patients to learn more. The investigators conducted semistructured interviews with orthodontic patients and others involved the decision-making process. They found that responses fell into a number of categories, which
Dear Anesthesia & Pain Management Insider, For many children, seeing a long, silver needle headed for their mouth is one of the most fear-inducing parts of dentistry. But a bee-shaped distraction device may help ease this pain and anxiety, according to the findings of a new study. Read more on how this device uses vibration and cold to mask injection pain in our Insider Exclusive. Also in the Anesthesia &
Dear DrBicuspid Member, If you’ve added a laser to your practice’s armamentarium, you may be looking for new ways to incorporate it into patient treatment. Dr. Joshua Weintraub offers one such treatment example in his case report of a 67-year-old man found to have recurrent subgingival decay under an old composite restoration. Dr. Weintraub describes performing a gingivectomy and restoring the tooth using a laser for treatment. It’s a question dentists and
3Shape and 3M have announced a partnership that allows practitioners to use 3Shape’s scanner to digitally integrate with 3M’s Oral Care portal. 3Shape users who are planning treatment with 3M’s Clarity aligners can submit scans from the Trios scanner directly to the 3M Oral Care portal. The Trios scanner now integrates with more than 50 orthodontic and sleep device services, according to 3Shape.
Where are the periodontists? As the number of people with periodontitis continues to increase in the U.S., are periodontal specialists located where they’re most needed? To find out, researchers examined the geographic proximity of periodontal offices throughout the U.S. to the homes of the people who need their care. Researchers examined the percentage of adults, in particular those with severe periodontitis, within various distances of a periodontist as well as
If you are suffering from one or more missing teeth, then dental implants might be the right solution for you! These are metal posts that are surgically positioned to replace tooth roots. Once the procedure is finished, a tooth implant will have the same look, strength, and stability of a natural tooth and you won’t even feel the difference. With the proper care, dental implants can last a lifetime. How
Is an image from a panoramic radiograph sufficient, or is a cone-beam CT image needed for an accurate diagnosis? Researchers asked residents in oral surgery and orthodontics this and other questions to measure imaging accuracy and more. Both sets of residents reported that they considered the CBCT images to be more accurate. The study was published in the International Journal of Implant Dentistry (December 2018, Vol. 4:37). “Overall diagnostic accuracy
Our kids have tooth decay not because they’re deficient in fluoride. Alvin Danenberg, DDS. Our kids have bleeding gums not because they don’t brush and floss twice a day. The primary reasons our kids have tooth decay and gum disease are because their nutrition is deficient, their drinks are acidic and sugary, their healthy gut bacteria are compromised, and their lifestyles are sedentary. These deficiencies also manifest in childhood as
This case involved a 67-year-old man, a long-time patient of the practice, who presented for a restorative appointment. The dentist’s oral evaluation had revealed recurrent subgingival decay on tooth No. 8 under an old composite restoration. Above: Preoperative image of tooth No. 8. Below: Preoperative radiograph of the tooth. All images courtesy of Joshua Weintraub, DDS. Treatment plan The clinical objective was to restore the tooth while performing a gingivectomy
Carestream Dental and 3M have announced a partnership that allows Carestream’s CS 3500 and CS 3600 intraoral scanners to digitally integrate with 3M’s Oral Care portal. The new integration allows practitioners who are planning treatment with 3M’s Clarity aligners to send their files directly to 3M using the CS Connect portal in CS Imaging software version 8. Carestream also announced that its CS 3600 scanner can now stream music during