Sunstar Americas has launched GUM Crayola Squeeze-A-Color toothpaste. The toothpaste comes in a variety pack of child-friendly tubes (1.5 oz. ea,ch) with three nonstaining colors and flavors — blueberry burst (blue), melon blast (red) and jazzy apple (green) — to keep children interested in brushing, according to the company. Safe for use by children ages 2 and older, the small nozzle cap tube design encourages kids to get creative by
The Illinois State Dental Society (ISDS) Foundation is accepting community grant applications from Illinois community health organizations for oral health projects. The group plans to make grants from a pool of $50,000 to organizations that promote and encourage improved oral health and oral health education in Illinois, according to the organization. Applicants must live in Illinois and be endorsed by an ISDS local dental society, and projects must benefit Illinois
The next paradigm for dental healthcare will be more personalized care, and scientific advances such as genomics and oral biomarkers will play a key role in better addressing head and neck cancer, orofacial pain, and oral infectious diseases, according to an article in the Journal of Dental Research (JDR, May 20, 2013). While some practitioners may take offense at the notion because they already provide personalized care, others — such
A 2013 survey by 1-800-DENTIST has found 91% of respondents ranked cleanliness as a reason why they would return to the same dentist for a follow-up appointment. The newly released findings are part of a major national survey of patient attitudes toward dentists and dentistry. The only factors patients rated as higher priorities when deciding whether they would return to a dental office were the quality of the dentist’s work
Scientists investigating the link between diet and oral cancer have been given a $285,000 boost by healthcare insurance provider Simplyhealth. Simplyhealth is supporting a three-year University of Sheffield project examining the influence diet has on oral human papillomavirus (HPV), a risk factor for some cancers. The research team, led by Hilary Powers, PhD, a professor of nutritional biochemistry at Sheffield, is investigating the association between oral HPV infection and a
Preliminary studies by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) have begun to establish a connection between periodontal disease and kidney disease, according to an article on the university’s website. The study of oral health and kidney disease is new and largely uncharted, according to Vanessa Grubbs, MD, a kidney expert and an assistant professor and pulmonary specialist in the UCSF’s School of Medicine who is focusing on
The dental implant market, after years of double-digit growth as high as 15%, has clawed back from negative growth inflicted by the global economic downturn, with reports of flat or single-digit growth in some markets. As positive economic news rolls in about the U.S. economy, there also appears to be optimism about the role of implants in dental practices. Dental professionals are seeking to diversify the services they offer, as
Consuming cheese and other dairy products may help protect teeth against caries, according to a new study published in the May/June 2013 issue of General Dentistry (Vol. 61:3, pp. 56-59). The study sampled 68 subjects ranging in age from 12 to 15, and the authors looked at the dental plaque pH in the subjects’ mouths before and after they consumed cheese, milk, or sugar-free yogurt. A pH level lower than
Align Technology has introduced a new clear aligner product and signed an exclusive deal with Henry Schein Dental to distribute it. Realine is a five-stage clear aligner product designed for very minor crowding and spacing issues that general practitioner (GP) dentists see in their practices every day, including dental relapse, the companies noted in a press release. Realine offers non-Invisalign GP dentists a competitively priced, easy-to-use product for patients with
Cargill, an international producer of food, agricultural, financial, and industrial products and services, is poised to step into the global oral health market with a noncaloric sweetener that the company says rivals — perhaps even bests — xylitol in preventing caries. Erythritol, which Cargill has sold commercially under the brand name Zerose since 1994, “looks like sugar, behaves like sugar, tastes like sugar, but has no calories and is noncariogenic,”
A survey by Atomik Research on behalf of the British Dental Society has found that almost 7 million people in the U.K. are unlikely to brush their teeth. The February 2013 study, which had a sample size of 2,044, also found that 21% of respondents were likely to forget flossing and 25% forget to cover their mouth when coughing or wash their hands after going to the bathroom. The findings
Kerr has launched its newest cement, Nexus RMGI (resin-modified glass ionomer) with “One-Peel cleanup.” It is the first RMGI with the company’s Nexus technology and has a two- to three-second tack cure capability, Kerr noted in a press release. It also features self-adhesive paste/paste dual-adhesive technology for higher bond and compressive and flexural strengths. It is also free of benzoyl peroxide and Amine for improved translucency and color stability. The