From Dental Tribune November 24, 2011 BOSTON, Mass.,USA: The Forsyth Institute in Boston has signed an exclusive licencing agreement with a U.S.-based start-up for the commercialisation of a recently patented blue-light based technology for use in dentistry. Under the terms of the contract,Lexington-based PhotOral will be allowed to support the development and marketing of an … Read more
If they can do this, how come they can’t figure out how Palin and Bachman and Rob Ford were cloned from stem cells provided by Grover Nordquist, but I digress…….. From Dental Tribune – August 12, 2011 PITTSBURGH & ANN HARBOR, Mich./CAMBRIDGE, Mass.,USA: Enamel is known to be one of the hardest tissues in the … Read more
Ah Strep. Mutans – we hardly knew yee From Worldental.org According to researchers from Boston the primary culprit in EEC (Early Childhood Carries) is the bacterium called Streptococcus mutans. However, they have also identified a new species of bacteria that might be the same harmful, called Scardovia wiggsiae. The reports of the study have been … Read more
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had the opportunity to go to graduate school at the Harvard/Forsyth Dental Center. It is the research home to many brilliant minds in dentistry, mine unfortunately was not one of them. Surprisingly, they were some of the most approachable and interesting individuals I have … Read more
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