‘Sensitivity’ is the new buzzword in dentistry. Dentists are more sensitive than ever before to the needs of their patients. Sensitive teeth are being catered to by a growing plethora of appropriate pastes and treatments in the dental sphere. Tooth sensitivity: does...
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Propolis Can Help Manage Gingivitis And Periodontal Disease
Propolis. Bee glue. The resinous tree, branch and leaf raw materials of certain plants that bees collect to make the complex chemical composition of propolis. Hard and brittle when it’s cold, soft and sticky when it’s hot, it’s used to protect the health and integrity...
Dental Implant Hearing Aids
It’s a study published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America rather than the Journal of the American Dental Association as one might reasonably expect. Like a lone, home-schooled Babel fish deciphering only one, rather than every language in the known...
Philanthropy in Dentistry: Dental Charities Have a Lot to Give
Australia is in the midst of a cost of living crisis following the global Coronavirus pandemic. It seems, as if corporate Australia has decided to recoup all and any losses from the pandemic by raising its prices on everything. High inflation is the result and the...
That Periodontitis Raises Blood Sugar Levels Is Not Sweet News
Of all the things that most people want raised, a blood sugar level isn’t one of them. Award rates, living standards, access to education, ethics, eyebrows, awareness and spirits all hit the list waaay above that. It’s as if the periodontitis payload of horror isn’t...
Vitamin K2: Remineralises Your Teeth & Can Reverse Cavities
We know about calcium for oral health but what the K is Vitamin K2? Okay, what is vitamin K? And why, exactly, are there two of them? It’s a story that began in 1930s Canada - the decade known as the Dirty Thirties. Extreme drought cracked its southern prairies in...
Can Having Bad Oral Health Affect An Entire Country?
Can Having Bad Oral Health Affect An Entire Country? If it does, it sure makes ignoring and neglecting our oral health sound selfish. Although pretty much everything we do is selfish: we’re Homo sapiens. We’ve made an entire world for ourselves that way. In our...
Next Generation Biohybrid Tooth Implants
The idea of merging man with machine was just a fictional concept in 1872 when English novelist Samuel Butler anonymously published Erewhon. It was the first literary exploration of the dangerous ideas of conscious machines, and their ability to self-replicate. It...
Swollen Gums: What Lies Beneath The Inflammation?
More than 80% of chronic disease starts in the mouth. Curiously - according to the American Psychological Association - 80% of Americans have suffered the physical and emotional symptoms of stress in the last year. And that’s an accurate reflection of global stress...
Straightening Out Dental Specialists: Who’s Who in the Oral Zoo?
If you can name more than three dental specialist professions, you’re doing well. Once upon a time there was just a ‘toothpuller’, who also happened to be a barber. And also a surgeon. Mostly it was someone who was fine with blood, gore and screaming. And that was...