Dental Hygiene Essential for Congenital Heart Disease Patients Many congenital heart disease patients are seeing their risk of endocarditis increase. One reason stands out above others: poor dental hygiene. Teens with congenital heart disease floss and brush less than other…
CDC issues advisory on rise of deadly C. difficile infections While several other health care-associated infections rates are in decline, potentially fatal infections of Clostridium difficile, or C. difficile, not only persist but have climbed in the last decade, according…
Effect of the inclination of a maxillary central incisor on periodontal stress. Conclusion: There are more compressive stresses concentrated at the apex of incisors with a high degree of inclination than in incisors that are more upright. This may be…
Some Texas Dentists Will Do Anything to Treat Medicaid Patients Thousands of children are receiving an excessive amount dental care in Texas because of Medicaid. Some of these children are receiving crowns on teeth that aren’t permanent. There are even…
Perceived vs measured forces of interarch elastics Publication year: 2012 Source:American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics, Volume 141, Issue 3 Larry J. Oesterle, Justin M. Owens, Sheldon M. Newman, William Craig Shellhart Introduction Orthodontists depend on perceptions derived from…