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Gum disease can lead to Heart attacks

Researchers have found that people with a bad tooth had an increased chance of getting cardiovascular ...acks. Gum disease occurs due to non-maintenance of tooth surface, which requires daily brushing and rinsing after food which clears the bacteria which covers...

Uncontrolled Diabetes Spells Doom for Dental Implants

... implants do not work as in uncontrolled diabetes, tooth grinding and clenching. Smoking and alcohol abuse ...e to the patient. “Implants are a good solution to tooth loss because they look and feel like natural teeth,” Kenton Ross, DMD, FAGD, an AGD spokesperson. sa...

Distinguished Scientist Award Conferred on University of Rochester Scientists for Work on Preventing Cavities

...eir work on ways to stop microorganisms that cause tooth decay and cavities. Koo, who is a member of the faculty on the Eastman Department of Dentistry, will receive the Young Investigator Award, while Marquis, who is a professor in the Department of Microbiology and Immunology, has been conferred the Seni...

Compounds in Licorice Can Fight Tooth Decay

...occus mutans, the bacteria that is responsible for tooth decay. This plant root is used to manufacture licorice candy. The details of this study are to appear in the Feb. 24 print version of the Journal of Natural Products, a monthly peer-reviewed joint publication of the American Chemical Society and th...

Fluoride Varnish prevents Tooth Decay In Milk Teeth

...e varnish plays a key role in preventing childhood tooth decay. // The use of varnish along with parental c...ll go a long way towards reducing the incidence of tooth decay in childhood, the study says. The researchers examined 376 children, primarily of Chinese an...

Annual Dental Checkups in Children Lagging Behind

...one a year. This scenario is prevalent even though tooth decay is a major problem in childhood and can be prevented by simple measures. AHRQ's Medical Expenditures Panel Survey (MEPS) said that 49 percent of the 32 million American children did not get dental checkups in 2003. * The survey also reveale...

Children Need Regular Fluoride Varnishes

...en who did not receive fluoride varnish developing tooth decay are much higher, according to the research study. Parents should take their children for a dental visit right from the age of one year, in addition to ensuring regular dental varnishes to the children. Most of the children who participated in t...

Gum Disease Affects Diabetic Children Earlier Than Anticipated

...sses to periodontitis, which could result in early tooth loss. The study is progressing and ultimately aims to examine 700 children. "It will be extremely interesting to see the results from the entire cohort and to further explore if specific diabetes-associated factors are related to the early developmen...

Baby Bottle Tooth Decay Affects Kids Physically and Emotionally

...Dental Health Month and the focus is on preventing tooth decay. Despite the widespread use of fluorides and...eeth are decayed that is called as the baby bottle tooth decay syndrome. Indeed, it leaves quite a lot of scars, physical and emotional as the kid enters ear...

Smoking Increases Chances Of Needing Root Canal Treatment

...ent is necessary when the pulp or the nerve of the tooth gets diseased. It was found that 998 teeth received the treatment in the said period. It was found that people who smoked had a higher risk of undergoing the treatment. "For example, the teeth of a man who smoked for less than four years had a likeli...

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

...arketing Director 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. "Thi...

A potent causative agent of dental flourosis: Fluoride

...mally fluoridated water (41% vs. 21%); but no less tooth decay. Cavity prevalence increased by 15% in 2 to...sk of dental fluorosis without any benefit of less tooth decay and growing evidence links fluoride to hypersensitivities, bone damage, thyroid problems and m...

Tooth Enamel Eaten Away By Popular Drinks

...ar drinks could just be sufficient enough to erode tooth enamel and cause dental damage, suggests a new stu...alcified tissue that overlies the root area of the tooth can be damaged. The researchers of the present study studied the acid corrosive potential of five ...

Red Wine: Is It A Cure For Periodontal Disease?

... 200 deaths. Professional wine-tasters suffer from tooth erosion. Dr Graham Chadwick, from Dundee Dental Sc...al, said that excessive alcohol consumption causes tooth erosion and removal of enamel from the teeth....

Salivary Test Could Predict Future Oral Bone Loss

...s is detrimental for teeth since the bone around a tooth is vital to hold it in place. // Researchers compared the dental x-rays of more than a 100 patients and related them with the levels of salivary proteins. It was found that IL-1-beta levels were higher in patients with considerable bone loss. Anoth...

Children In Scotland Denied Access To Dental Care

...l health is taken into consideration. The level of tooth decay among 5-year olds, in Scotland was 2.76 teeth per child, as revealed by a dental survey conducted in 2003. This is much greater compared to a 1.47 per child in England. About 66% of all youngsters in Scotland (712, 000) have registered themse...

Tongue Piercing Is Unhealthy

...lot of damage caused by piercing—-tooth fractures, tooth chips. Patients don’t see the relation between them and piercing, which weakens the tooth. The damage is almost always in the pre-molars, the middle teeth, almost parallel to the piercing. The best way to prevent damage is to not get your tongue pier...

Overweight Kids More Prone To Cavities

...dies in the 1990s found that children with rampant tooth decay appeared to be underweight, and this was att..., a more recent study found that the children with tooth decay did not have reduced bodyweight. Given these conflicting results, we thought a more definitive...

Teething Problems – Fight Sugar For Children’s Dental Healh

...s are extremely crucial in offsetting cavities and tooth decay, according to the American Academy of Pediat...r extended periods of time, increasing the risk of tooth decay.” The AAPD has offered some useful hints that will give teeth to your efforts in cutting dow...

How Did Early Man Treat Tooth Decay?

...o you think early man had when he had to drill// a tooth to treat decay? While you can indulge in some creative thinking on the endless possibilities that early man could have tapped, researchers have dug up the past and chewed upon available evidence to suggest that a flint head served the purpose of a dr...

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