Dental Headlines & News
Smoking is Bad For Your Teeth Plus Smoking and Bad Breath
Smoking Dangers RevealedTobacco intake is the single most preventable cause of premature death in today’s times. Tobacco or nicotine is the chemical that narrows our blood vessels thereby reducing the life giving air that we intake, which in turn forces us...
Too Much Fluoride Is Not Good For Your Health
Are your childrend getting too much fluoride in their water or your toothpaste?Studies have found that an over abundance of fluoride in children undergoing tooth formation tends to lead to a condition called, dental fluorosis.- a condition indicated by the...
New things in store at airport (The News-Press)
A cuppa joe and a cruller, manicures and massages are now being served at Southwest Florida International Airport.
Smokers: Win a Laser Teeth Whitening Session
Win a laser teeth whitening session with a silly quiz and go to England! Seems silly and it is but it is all about taking notice of your smile and what smoking can do to darken your teeth. An ad going around the UK reads as follows:Is your New Year resolution...
Number of patients seeing NHS dentists falls by one million following Government reforms Almost a million fewer people are now seeing an NHS dentist than before the Government's reforms, figures revealed today. A total of 800,000 fewer people saw a dentist in the two years to December 2007 than in the two years to April 2006, data from the Information Centre for health and social care showed.
Caters to those others reject Dubbed "the United Nations of dental clinics,'' St. Paul's Community Dental Care has expanded into Maplewood, offering dental care to immigrants and low income patients from around the globe.
New Advances In Cosmetic Dentristy Stimulate Tooth Tissue Growth
What if there was a drug that could revive the tissues of your mouth that support your teeth?Well, it seems that there is a biopharmaceutical company that says it has a such a drug. It's called, Acologix and it is said to be able to restore the dental pulp...
Men, Teeth Whitening and the Big Wedding Day Plan
In the UK (but you can bet it is everywhere), looking their best on the big wedding day is important to the man as much as the woman. More and more men are worrying about their matrimonial appearance with many taking drastic measures to look good, a survey...
Teeth whitening at Independence Mall (WECT 6 Wilmington)
Teeth whitening is a booming business and now you can get it done at Independence Mall.
Public Dental Clinic For Kids Opens MD Three years ago, members of a nonprofit group conducted dental health screenings at Mt. Hope-Nanjemoy Elementary School, which is in the lowest-income part of the county. They found that a large percentage of children needed dental care, but they did not return to treat the students. After Merida was hired in April, she and other clinic staff members visited Head Start programs and Judy Centers at schools across the county to conduct additional screenings. Of the 123 children examined, 14 percent were found to have urgent dental needs, Webb said. An additional 23 percent had non-urgent needs.
Local dentist offers whitening to Iraq veteran fathers (The Desert Sun)
In honor of Father's Day, a Palm Desert dentist office is offering free one-hour teeth-whitenings to fathers returning from Iraq.
Think Yellow Teeth Are Funny?
Think having yellow teeth is funny? Well, since it's close to the holidays, I thought that I would just look around and find a funny story to tell about teeth rather than promote the number one, one and only teeth whitening kit that I recommend.After all, if...
Dentists who prey on children Some dentists intentionally perform unnecessary dental work just to be able to bilk the government? The Department of Justice recently settled a case with a chain of dentists that were performing baby root canals on children who didn't need them, just so they could bill Medicaid for a more expensive procedure. (The technical name for this work is "pulpotomy." It's used when the infection from a cavity spreads into the pulp chamber around the tooth and requires removal of the pulp. Ouch!)
Kidney Foundation Drops Fluoridation Support The National Kidney Foundation withdrew its support of water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research Council (NRC) report indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to fluoride's bone and teeth-damaging effects.
Drop in dentists' patient numbers UK THE number of people seeing an NHS dentist in Suffolk and Essex has tumbled despite the introduction of government contracts aimed at improving accessibility, new figures have revealed.
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