AbstractDental sealants have been utilized for over 50 years in different parts of the world with varying degrees of success.1 Dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants and even patients have spent much effort in either providing dental sealants or receiving them on their own teeth. Still, international information sadly reports that occlusal caries is present and … Read more
Dental caries is one of the two common diseases we treat in clinical practice on a daily basis. We place restorations to restore teeth ravaged by caries. We place implants, bridges and partial dentures to replace teeth destroyed by caries. Our preventive therapies for the most part involve cleaning tooth surfaces and applying fluoride-based products. … Read more
Oral radiography, in use for over a century, is well-established in the dental profession. A curiosity at first, it quickly carved out an important role in dental caries detection. Today, dental radiography is a standard part of the dental examination, identifying and locating sites of dental disease that are inaccessible to other diagnostic methods. Digital … Read more
Vital pulp therapy is a critical aspect of all restorative treatment. The goal during the placement of any restoration, whether it be a direct placement composite resin or amalgam restoration or a full coverage crown, is to best maintain a vital and healthy pulp. This is accomplished with good clinical practices of caries removal, treatment … Read more
INTRODUCTIONA sound restoration cannot begin with a flawed preparation. Amalgam preparations reached consensus more than a century ago. However, after 30 years, posterior composite preparations have not been formulated into a definitive textbook. No one method is accepted by university circles, dental communities, or the majority of the profession. Without consensus on fundamentals, how can … Read more
From Cosmetic Dentistry News It goes without saying that some enterprising marketer will put this material in Play-Doh and plastercine (do they still manufacture plactercine?)… Zion Health, a San Francisco-based company specializing in natural clay minerals cosmetic and hygienic products has announced ClayBrite toothpaste will now be available for purchase at Noah’s Natural Health Food … Read more
What an exciting time it is to be dentist! What an important part we play in our patients’ lives! We are an essential component of their primary health care team. Many of our patients do not have a physician that they see on a regular basis, yet they visit us every nine, six, or even … Read more
Dental professionals have been traditionally limited to the use of incandescent light for the visual inspection of the oral cavity. Direct visualization of reflected white light from mucosal surfaces can enable the detection of gross tissue abnormalities, but may fail to identify some early disease processes (such as dysplasia) that have not yet caused changes … Read more
Dental caries is one of the major diseases that we treat in dentistry on a daily basis. The treatment of dental caries is a very common procedure in every dental practice. We have a vast array of techniques for treatment including: direct-placed restorations using materials such as composite resins, glass ionomers and amalgam, indirect-placed restorations … Read more
Xerostomia (xero=dry, stomia= mouth) is defined as the subjective sensation of oral dryness that may or may not be associated with a decrease in the production of saliva.1,2 Saliva is one of those things that is appreciated only in its absence, when the patient perceives a significant negative effect on quality of life.3 Xerostomia is … Read more
Resin bonding of the human dentition has become a “standard” in the United States and Canada. There are well over 80 different bonding systems on the market today. We have seen them evolve through multiple generations in an attempt to “simplify” the bonding process. But as these agents have simplified, many in our profession have … Read more
PREPARATION DESIGN FOR COMPOSITIESThe definitive textbook of composite restoration has yet to be written. Preparation designs are a common starting point in clinical technique before other complex variables such as resin, placement, shrinkage, and cure are encountered. This article explores principles, designs and instrumentation revised for composite resin Class V preparations, and new preparations to … Read more
ASSOCIATIONS ASSOCIATION OF DENTAL TECHNOLOGISTS OF ONTARIO The official voice of Registered Dental Technologists in Ontariowww.ADTO.org CANADIAN DENTAL PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION Because bad things happen to good dentists.www.cdpa.com ONTARIO ACADEMY OF GENERAL DENTISTRYntistryQuality of care through life long learning.www.ontarioagd.org TORONTO ACADEMY OF DENTISTRYToronto Meetings Calendar, CE, Winter Clinic, Society Listings, etc.www.tordent.com CONTINUING EDUCATION FACILIT É OF ORTHODONTIC RESEARCH & CONT. ED. Lectures … Read more
IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic … Read more
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Dental Intelligence is a stellar website – do check it out…..www.dental-intelligence.com Check out the articles as well as the blog entries – of note http://www.dental-intelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/IMG-2.pdf But of greater importance is the article on Bob Barkley and his philosophy http://www.dental-intelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/Brown-Article-on Barkley_v2.pdf For those of you for whom the name Bob Barkley holds no meaning – time … Read more
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by Kathy Jones on March 01, 2011 A significant discovery about the nature of childhood dental disease has been made by researchers at The Forsyth Institute. The scientific studies led by Anne Tanner, BDS, Ph.D., identified a new pathogen connected to severe early childhood caries (cavities). This bacterium, Scardovia wiggsiae, was present in the mouths of children … Read more
It’s the health issue activists like to get their teeth into -adding the compound fluoride to municipal drinking water to reduce dental decay. On one side are the proponents, including a majority of dentists and health specialists, who say there is considerable scientific evidence that adding fluoride significantly reduces cavities -particularly in children. They note … Read more