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What’s the Impact of Electronic Cigarettes on Oral Health?
What’s the impact of Electronic E-Cigarettes on oral health? Delving Into The Dental Consequences Of Vaping …
Copper Nanodots & Ionic Gel: Fighting Gum Disease Sci-Fi Style
Statistically, more than half the world population between the ages of 18 and 64 have issues with their gums. Bad news if you're one of them; good news if you're not. From gingivitis and gum recession to periodontitis, it's no wonder the bacteria creating these...
Does Poor Oral Health Equate To Cognitive Decline?
Our teeth and gums have a lot to say about our overall state of health, it seems. More evidence is emerging which links oral health to general wellbeing. Does poor oral health equate to cognitive decline? Cognitive relates to brain function and all things mental. Our...
Cavities And Gum Disease: You Can’t Blame The Industrial Revolution For Them
With its duration still open to scholarly debate, the Industrial Revolution spanned at least eighty years from the 18th century into the 19th. It changed the way we moved through the world as markedly as the advent of agriculture had, some 12,000 years before....
Tooth Sensitivity: Just Needs Sensitive Toothpaste, Or Symptom of Bigger Problems?
‘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...
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...
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...