White lines or white lies?

By Rafael Michiels, Belgium – from Dental Tribune With the recent development of new file systems–WaveOne from DENTSPLY Maillefer and RECIPROC from VDW–endodontists have been having controversial discussions about their usefulness. This is partly due to the aggressive marketing of these products. Great emphasis is laid on simplifying the endodontic procedure. The thought behind this … Read more

It’s good to be king

It’s hard to imagine that Apple, now the #1 technology company in the world in terms of brand value – some 1155 billion dollars, roughly the annual gross of an orthodontist, was once teetering on the brink of bankruptcy and extinction.  And Windows which is a leviathan and by sheer weight of installations will remain … Read more

Doctors driving IT development with their mobile technology choices

By Pamela Lewis Dolan, amednews.com – May 23, 2011 When physicians at Albany (N.Y.) Medical Center started adopting smartphones a few years ago, they almost immediately looked for ways to use them in their clinical lives. Doctors liked being able to access their patients’ records and clinical tools anytime,from any place,so they pressured the hospital … Read more

Ah chlorhexidine, we hardly knew yee……….

From Kathy Kincaide – Dr. Bicuspid.com – May 13, 2011 Sunstar Americas unveiled the GUM PerioShield oral health rinse at the California Dental Association (CDA) 2011 spring meeting in Anaheim this week.  PerioShield, which features technology licensed  Image via Wikipedia from Sinclair Pharmaceuticals, represents a next-generation solution to achieving and maintaining a healthy mouth, according to … Read more

Baby bottle use linked to childhood obesity and dental problems

By Stacey Doyle – HULIQ – May 8, 2011 Childhood development experts suggest weaning a child off the bottle by the age of 12 to 14 months. Temple University researchers agree with this time table, stating the age is “unlikely to cause harm and may prevent obesity along with other problems. Pediatricians  Image via Wikipedia … Read more

Clinical eChronicle of Treatment Outcomes REDUX

Work continues on development of a second blog for Oral Health and it’s readership – oops, erase that, it’s viewership. The intention is to create a blog that is case report driven, searchable by topic and egalitarian in that everyone is encourage to contribute cases in a format that is visually impacting with a figure … Read more

General Anesthesia – Safe or Not for Your Child’s Brain?

From Dental Health Magazine Staff – April 5th, 2011 A recent article published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM, March 9th, 2011), discusses the effects of general anesthesia on the brains of young children. Researchers believe that it is very important to present and understand the possible long term neurological effects that general anesthesia has on the … Read more

UH OH!!!!!!!!!!

AZ looks to sell off Astra Tech dental and devices unit WORLD NEWS | NOVEMBER 17, 2010 KEVIN GROGAN AstraZeneca has reportedly hired JPMorgan to find buyers for its Astra Tech business,the sale of which could bring in $2 billion. The Anglo-Swedish drugmaker told PharmaTimes World News that “as a general rule, we don’t comment on market speculation”. … Read more

Thimk Different – Steve Jobs; I want to bear your children

Lincoln, NE, (October 26, 2010) – MacPractice, the leading Apple developer of practice management and clinical software on Macs and iPhones for medical, dental and chiropractic offices, today announced the release of MacPractice iPad Interface with ePrescribe. The solution was designed with Apple’s Web App development tools to provide remote and network communication from the … Read more

“Mouth breather” – it’s no laughing matter…

        Erik Wojciechowski dreaded bedtime. The five-year-old tossed and turned, snored, and was often up before the sun. He wore the marks of a rough night’s sleep on his face, his mother, Lisa Leonardi, says. “He would get up with circles under his eyes. He looked like a raccoon.” She wrote off … Read more

Dental Trauma Guide Now Online

Dr. Jens Ove Andreasen and the International Association of Dental Traumatology take great pleasure in announcing that after intensive testing and development the Dental Trauma Guide is now online: http://www.dentaltraumaguide.org/.   Together with his staff of coworkers at the University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark and contributors from other countries, Dr. Andreasen used data collected from … Read more