Archive for the ‘General’ Category
Interplast Lends a Hand
Interplast has developed a new ‘Visiting Educator Programme’ which sends medical volunteers to developing countries to give hands-on training. Interplast, changing lives for over 40 years, is the first organisation to provide all kinds of medical treatment and solutions to poorer countries by sending devoted medical volunteers to give direct training and donated equipment. The […]
Computer Games for Dental Students
All work and no play isn’t a problem anymore – a new simulation game has been introduced, soon to be worldwide, to aid dental students with dental implant procedures. The Virtual Dental Implant Simulation Programme has been designed by the Medical College of Georgia, School of Dentistry. The game is designed to assist students in […]
NHS dentistry to be rebooted under the Conservatives
NHS dentistry will be overhauled under a future Tory government, including reintroducing dental screening for five-year-olds in schools and scrapping incentives and missed-appointment charges. The initiative, launched by shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley, will also require dentists trained at the taxpayers’ expense to work for the NHS for at least five years. Lansley said: “Over […]
Pocket-sized breath test on its way
You’re about to head into a meeting and become paranoid that last night’s garlic is still on your breath. Although the cupped-hand check has been around for ages now, it’s not very accurate. So what do you do? Good news: researchers at Tel Aviv University have come up with a new pocket-sized breath test to […]
Mother arrested for neglecting to take her child to the dentist
A young mother from South Carolina has been charged with child neglect after failing to take her child, who had advanced tooth decay, to a specialist. The 19-year-old mother was advised by a dentist to seek treatment from a specialist in child tooth decay. However, as the specialist did not accept Medicaid, she did not […]
Potential mouth cancer breakthrough
Campaigners against mouth cancer have welcomed a potential breakthrough in the treatment of the cancer, made by the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University. Every five hours, one person dies from mouth cancer in the UK. The researchers found an “anti-cancer compound” that killed off mouth cancer cells. The compound – hisdone deacetylase […]
Bone damage from cancer and osteoporosis drug can be predicted by X-rays, study finds
Not many of us will have heard of bisphosphonates, drugs that have been found to cause a rotting of the jawbones. Bisphosphonates are fortunately not in very many drugs – rather, they tend to be in drugs for the treatment of breast cancer and bone cancer and in drugs given to individuals at risk for […]
Scientists closer to finding out why there′s no smoke without a fire
We all know that smoking is bad for your general health, and in recent years, we’ve learnt that it’s especially bad for your oral health. Dentists and scientists have long observed that chronic gum disease (periodontitis) is more common in smokers, but now they’re one step closer to understanding why. A recent study published in […]
Don′t let the credit crunch crunch your teeth
With everyone having to tighten their belts during the recession, dentists are warning patients not to neglect regular check-ups in an attempt to save money. Some families are forgoing dental treatment because of its cost or because they lack insurance. However, neglecting problems in your mouth could lead to infection, which may lead to life-threatening […]
Teeth-grinding largely ignored by dentists, survey finds
Around 80% of dentists fail to question their patients about teeth-grinding, also known as bruxism, a survey has found. Bruxism can lead to headaches, jaw pain and worn-down teeth. The survey was conducted by NoBrux, a UK provider of dental guards, which cites a dentist in a Mail on Sunday article as saying that bruxism […]
