News tagged with dental caries
Research shows sharp rise in hospital admissions for children's dental care
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Researchers from Peninsula Dental School and the UCL Eastman Dental Institute have used data from the Hospital Episodes Statistics resource to identify a marked increase in the number of hospital admissions for children with ...
Seeing through tooth decay
Aug 22, 2008 |
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Dental caries afflict at least 90% of the world's population at some time in their lives. Detecting the first signs of this disease, which can be lethal in extreme cases, just got easier thanks to work by researchers in India ...
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Modern lifestyle prevents tooth decay
Feb 26, 2009 |
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New research has found that modern lifestyle habits may play a bigger role than food alone, when it comes to tooth decay.
Topical oral syrup prevents early childhood caries
Jul 05, 2008 |
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Dental researchers at the University of Washington have reported a significant reduction of tooth decay in toddlers who were treated with the topical syrup xylitol, a naturally occurring non-cavity-causing sweetener. Their ...
Overweight kids have fewer cavities, new study shows
Apr 02, 2008 |
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Contrary to conventional wisdom, overweight children have fewer cavities and healthier teeth compared to their normal weight peers, according to a study published in this month’s issue of Community Dentistry & Oral Epidemiology.
Dental fillings without gaps
Sep 05, 2008 |
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Tooth cavities are usually closed with plastic fillings. However, the initially soft plastic shrinks as it hardens. The tension can cause gaps to appear between the tooth and the filling, encouraging more ...
Why do women get more cavities than men?
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 14, 2008 |
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Reproduction pressures and rising fertility explain why women suffered a more rapid decline in dental health than did men as humans transitioned from hunter-and-gatherers to farmers and more sedentary pursuits, ...
Nasal Spray May End Dental Needle Injections for Upper Teeth Repair
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 17, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A nasal spray shown to numb the upper jaw is set to be tested in an FDA Phase 3 trial, which will assess the spray's effectiveness compared to the current "gold standard" treatment -- painful anesthesia injections.
Computer program useful tool in dental care
Feb 25, 2005 |
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Gunnel Hänsel Petersson at Malmö University in Sweden has received an award for her studies of Cariogram, a computer program created in Malmö to assess patients’ risk of developing tooth decay, dental caries. The program was ...
Smoking is a major cause of gum disease: study
Apr 30, 2008 |
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Almost a third of the more than two million cases of gum disease among Australians are caused by smoking, according to research by University of Adelaide researchers in the Australian Research Centre for Population ...
Researchers find stem cells from monkey teeth can stimulate growth and generation of brain cells
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Nov 11, 2008 |
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Researchers at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center, Emory University, have discovered dental pulp stem cells can stimulate growth and generation of several types of neural cells. Findings from this study, available ...
Does the stress of being a parent lead to decay in children's teeth?
Apr 03, 2009 |
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A team of scientists from The Ohio State University has examined the stress levels of parents whose young children either had no cavities or so many cavities that the children had receive anesthesia before undergoing dental ...
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