Osseointegration and Dental Implants offers a comprehensive guide to the state of the art of implant dentistry. Based around the proceedings of the Toronto Osseointegration Conference Revisited, it gathers together information on all aspects of dental implants and osseointegration, from basic scientific background, such as the biology of osseointegration and the biomechanics of implant surface [...]
Hundreds of Colorado dentists and dental professionals will provide free dental treatment to about 4,000 uninsured, low-income children in Colorado – children who would not otherwise receive the dental care they desperately need. The free treatment is part of Give Kids a Smile Day on Friday, Feb. 6. Dentists will provide free dental treatment for [...]
Mumbai: Chew on this: a patient in the US goes for a root canal treatment. His dentist orders a crown for him from a dental lab in the US. The lab then takes the patient’s tooth impression and ships to a dental lab thousands of miles away in Mumbai. Based on the impression, the Indian [...]
Most orthodontic treatment begins in the early teens, when all of the permanent teeth, except the wisdom teeth, are in place. Minor misalignments may be treated around age eight, with a removable headgear appliance. Some orthodontists believe that the use of preventative orthodontics on children can later simplify the correction needed by braces. Such preventative [...]
Linda Noone had waited for this day for a long time. Though excited, the 50-year-old Indianapolis woman calmly lay back in the dentist’s chair at Pritchett Orthodontics and opened her mouth. One by one, the dental assistant attached a tiny metal bracket to the front of each tooth. An ultraviolet light activated an adhesive to [...]
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Align Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ: ALGN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared new labeling for the Invisalign system, thereby removing the permanent dentition limitation from the indications for use. In addition, certain conditions previously listed as contraindications will now be listed as precautions. [...]
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A computer in dentist Ryan Perry’s new Jefferson Highway office turns a scanned image of a tooth into a 3-D model that tells another machine how to carve a crown out of a solid block of porcelain. Within minutes, Perry is placing the newly carved crown on a tooth. Technology has yet to replace the [...]
Neither pain emanating from the jaw, nor clicking sounds coming from one or both of them automatically signify temporomandibular joint disorder (TMD). However, since these are two of the most common symptoms of TMD, it pays to have these conditions checked in the event the disorder does, indeed, exist. Read Full Article… Jaw Pain/Clicking Jaw [...]
ARDMORE, Okla. ― In tough economic times, visiting the dentist may not be your top priority, but a program at one local school is trying to help with low cost dental care, and as Daniel Armbruster tells us, it’s not only helping those in need- it’s helping the hygienists as well. It’s something many people [...]