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Tobacco chewing leads to dental caries

...ore prone to caries.The researchers studied dental caries and tobacco use data from more than// 13,000 adult...uct is associated with an increased risk of dental caries on tooth roots and crowns. A typical user holds a wad of chew in his cheek for 30 minutes at a time...

Composite fillings to hasten work procedures

...xyapatite in areas of the tooth damaged by decay — caries — helping the tooth structure to repair itself.ACP has been around for decades, but this new compound has the unique ability to incorporate with photocurable polymer composite resins — making it stable or degradable, depending on your intended applic...

Medications linked to xerostomia and caries

...als who use asthma medications more susceptible to caries and periodontal disease. Dr. Carlos Salinas, prof...xtended research will allow researchers to compare caries in patients with different levels of clinical severity of asthma as well as patients in different ge...

Smokers children likely to develop caries

...to cavities despite the overall decrease in dental caries throughout the rest of the population over the last few decades Fifty eight percent of the children involved in the study had cavities in deciduous teeth and 28 percent had cavities in permanent teeth. passive was most associated with c...

Preventing cavities in children

...C were associated with fewer tooth surfaces having caries experience.” Researchers say their findings support the need for guidelines for children that include: two or more servings of dairy foods daily, limiting juice to four to six ounces daily and restricting other sugary drinks to occasional use. They ...

Testing Of Saliva May Predict Dental Caries

... of Dentistry has devised a test to predict dental caries in children. This is a test of saliva// to measure... USC researchers, it is possible to predict dental caries in a child almost exactly using the Caries Assessment and Risk Evaluation (CARE) test. A variant o...

New Tooth Paste Is Here To Fill In Dental Cavities

... to fill in the gap. Conventionally, when dental caries affects a tooth, the affected part is removed and ...arly attack of dental caries. The paste encourages caries control by nanocrystalline growth with very little damage to tooth’s natural enamel. The study was...

Is caries in primary and permanent tooth related?

...ccording to a study in Journal of Dental Research, caries in primary teeth may cause developmental defects in permanent teeth.// A primary tooth can have caries for a wide variety of reasons such as gender, family health or history, socio-economic status, years...

Watch out those of you planning for a predetermined Cesarean Section

...ed on a caries-causing bacterium that mothers with caries transmit to their newborns. Known as Streptococcus... The findings suggest that mothers who have dental caries should inform their family dentists if they had a C-section delivery because of the potentially high...

Researchers Discover New Clues To Identify Tooth Decay

...to determine a possible correlation between dental caries (tooth decay) prevalence in children and salivary concentrations of three types of antimicrobial peptides. Antimicrobial peptides, or AMPs, are one of the body's natural defenses against bacteria, targeting and killing invading microbes. Results ...

Water fluoridation and tooth decay

... Fluoride toothpastes are also recommended. Dental caries is caused as a result of the dissolution of tooth enamel by acids. Improper brushing, eating excess chocolates as well as a general neglect of oral hygiene also cause dental caries. Fluoride is recognized as a protection against the same. Water fluor...

Unilever And World Dental Federation Team Up To Improve Oral Health In North Africa, Middle East and Turkey

...or at Unilever. In these countries, tooth decay or caries is on the rise, sugar consumption has jumped by 30 percent between 1991 and 2002 and "smoking and the consumption of smokeless tobacco called 'shammaah'" is very high. These result in the increase in rates of oral cancer as well. "This is a pioneerin...

A potent causative agent of dental flourosis: Fluoride

...cavities. Latino children had significantly higher caries experience than African-American and Caucasian children, thus indicating that disparities exist among different ethnic groups even when the water is fluoridated. According to Paul Beeber, NYSCOF President and General Counsel, “Today, fluoridation p...

Alternative to Open Heart Surgery

...n incision in the groin into the upper aorta which caries blood from the heart. On the other hand conventional cardiac pumps have to be inserted with an open heart surgery. The new cardiac pump is created by Dr Ashraf Khir, from the Institute of Bioengineering at Brunel University with the help of Dr Michae...

Chikungunya Strikes Chennai, India

...ease spreads mainly by Aedes aegypti species which caries the alpha virus and breeds in fresh water. The treatment includes medicines, intake of large amounts of fluids and adequate rest. The disease is thought to have spread from the Andhra Pradesh border. Blood samples were collected from 22 persons who w...

Unhealthy Oral Habits among Teenagers – Reported Dental Health Authoritie

...differences among geographical regions in terms of caries prevalence in deciduous teeth, and the factors associated with dental caries prevalence. (Japan) Schoolchildren in a school-based oral health program showed lower levels of ca...

Delhi to get New Dental Centre to Boost Oral Health

...th leaders in the country to help eradicate dental caries in children. The new centre will provide critically needed preventive dental services, conduct education training for local dental health professionals and distribute one million dental health packs containing a toothpaste and a toothbrush over fiv...

India needs dental health leadership, says expert

...ment the ambitious global plan to eradicate dental caries among children by 2026, says a British expert//. ...th Taskforce programme in India to eradicate tooth caries problem among children in the next 20 years, we need a good dental leadership," said Professor Raman...

New Screening System For Early Detection Of Dental Caries in Toddlers

...'s inner city toddlers. Early childhood dental caries (ECC), more commonly called as baby bottle tooth d...or costs. "Unfortunately, early childhood dental caries tends to occur in children who are not yet under the care of dentists, so there is no existing syste...

Improved Oral Health with Fluoridated water

...roval of bottlers’ claim of reduced risk of dental caries or tooth decay by fluoridated water, is being backed by the American Dental Association (ADA). // "Whether you drink fluoridated water from the tap or buy it in a bottle, you're doing the right thing for your oral health," says ADA executive directo...

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