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Simulation helps students learn dental implant procedures

Simulation helps students learn dental implant procedures

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A realistic computer game will soon be used to help dental students worldwide learn and reinforce dental implant procedures.


Advancement in tissue engineering promotes oral wound healing

Medicine & Health / Research

created Feb 03, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Oral tissue engineering for transplantation to aid wound healing in mouth (oral cavity) reconstruction has taken a significant step forward with a Netherlands-based research team's successful development of a gum tissue (gingival) ...





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Placement of dental implants results in minimal bone loss

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Dental implants are frequently used as a replacement for missing teeth in order to restore the patient's tooth function and appearance. Previous research demonstrates that the placement of a dental implant disrupts the host ...


Crowning glory: Bonelike coating for dental implants makes everyone smile

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created Apr 04, 2008 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

Research present in a forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Nanomanufacturing from Inderscience Publishers suggests that coating dental implants with a synthetic bone material prior to implantation allows such i ...


Nanostructures improve bone response to titanium implants

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 03, 2008 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Titanium implants were successfully introduced by P.-I. Brånemark and co-workers in 1969 for the rehabilitation of edentulous jaws. After 40 years of research and development, titanium is currently the most frequently used ...


Building Up Broken Bones

Building Up Broken Bones

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Any one of the 8 million Americans who suffer bone fractures each year knows how hard it is to wait for the bones to knit, or heal. Bone healing is also important for integration of dental ...


Less common procedures less common than thought

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery announces the results of its 2009 Less Common Cosmetic Procedures consumer survey. While the media has coined these cosmetic procedures as 'fringe' and made it seem that they are ...


Porous structures help boost integration of host tissue with implants, study finds

Biology /

created Jan 30, 2008 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Results published today in FASEB (the journal of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology) by researchers at Columbia University, including Jeremy Mao of the Columbia College of Dental Medicine, demonstrate ...


Pair of Bionic Ears Helps to Distinguish Left from Right

Medicine & Health / Research

created May 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Can a pair of bionic ears benefit a hearing-impaired child? Cynthia Zettler, a postdoctoral fellow in Ruth Litovsky's laboratory at the University of Wisconsin-Madison thinks so.


Dentists urged to take a role in identifying children suffering from neglect

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

A new policy urging dentists to check for tell-tale signs of neglect when treating children with severe oral disease has been published.


New generation of orthopedic, dental and cardiovascular prostheses

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 27, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (3) | comments 0

The futuristic technology of the Six Million Dollar Man -specifically a part metal and part flesh human being - won't be exclusive to Hollywood anymore. While the main character in the Six Million Dollar Man was outfitted ...


Research shows sharp rise in hospital admissions for children's dental care

Medicine & Health / Health

created Apr 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...



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