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Delivering Dentistry and Counseling to Patients using Telemedicine
Nowadays it is possible to receive dental care, healthcare, and even counseling from the comfort of your own home. Teledentistry is defined as using electronic information including interactive audio,...
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Providing Dental Care for Adults with Mental Health Disorders: Can Increased...
An interesting article titled “Providing oral care for adults with mental health disorders: Dental professionals’ perceptions and experiences in Perth, Western Australia” written by Clair Scrine,...
View ArticleLow sensitivity to pain due to gene mutation
A research team from UCL has identified a rare mutation that causes members of one family to have low sensitivity to pain. The researchers hope that the results could be used to identify new treatments...
View ArticleAntibiotics for Dental Use Contributing to SuperBugs
Research has shown that antibiotics prescribed by dentists for various dental surgeries and procedures may contribute to the development of Clostridium difficile (C. diff), a serious and potentially...
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Opioid Prescriptions From Dental Clinicians for Young Adults and Subsequent...
A very interesting article titled “Association of Opioid Prescriptions From Dental Clinicians for US Adolescents and Young Adults With Subsequent Opioid Use and Abuse” written by Schroeder et al. was...
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Four and half million settlement in wisdom teeth extraction death
The family of a 31 year old woman who died later on the same day after having wisdom teeth removed in September 2011 was awarded a $4.5 million settlement. The woman had her wisdom teeth removed at a...
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Can Bad Dental Heath be Affecting your Marriage or Love Life?
It is no secret that poor dental health is a deal breaker when it comes to dating. Even those already in relationships could be affected if their dental health goes downhill. According to a survey...
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Divorce and Dentistry: Repairing Broken Relationships
According to work by statistician Nathan Yau reported by Quartz who used divorce data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s 5 year survey from 2015, dentists are the 13th least likely occupation to end in...
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Wisdom Teeth Surgery Injury Leads to Ride on Rose Parade Float
The Tournament of Roses Parade or Rose Parade for short has been happening every year on New Year’s Day (or sometimes the day after New Year’s Day) since the late 1800s. The Rose Bowl college football...
View ArticleWisdom Teeth Removal Music
Previously on this blog many posts in the past suggested music that one can listen to after having their wisdom teeth surgically removed. If you are recovering from wisdom teeth extraction you may be...
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Alternatives To Painkillers After Dental Work
It is common for people to have pain after they have dental work. That is why dentists often prescribe opiates. However, opiates can cause dangerous side effects. They can also be addictive....
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Designing a Predoctoral Dental Curriculum To Help With Therapy Issues such as...
An interesting article titled “Tackling Stress Management, Addiction, and Suicide Prevention in a Predoctoral Dental Curriculum” by Brondani et al. appears in the Journal of Dental Education, vol. 78,...
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Divorce Among Dentists and Physicians: Is More Couples Therapy Needed?
An interesting article titled “Divorce among physicians and other healthcare professionals in the United States: analysis of census survey data,” by Ly et al. appearing in BMJ (350: h706; 2015)...
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How Can Dentists Better Set Expectations About their Career Choices to Avoid...
Dentists these days are graduating with ever increasing amounts of debt as a result of loans needed to graduate from dental school. This topic has been covered before on this site such as in the post...
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Recent Celebrities to have Wisdom Teeth Removal
In 2018 and through early 2019, there were at least 5 famous celebrities to have their wisdom teeth removed. The first celebrity is Dua Lipa, a 23 year old woman, who is a famous musician. She even...
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Twenty one year old woman improving after wisdom teeth removal caused brain...
A young woman from Kansas is improving after spending months recovering from brain injury that occurred after having wisdom teeth removed in March 2018. The woman was finishing up her senior year of...
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Wisdom Teeth Removal Death in 2016 in Florida: Settlement Reached
A 17-year-old man died after having wisdom teeth removed in April 2016 in Florida. The man had the procedure performed under conscious sedation. During the surgery the man stopped breathing which led...
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How to Safely Remove Your Teeth
Both adults and children need teeth removal at one point. For children, it is a normal and natural process. Sometimes for adults, it is due to problematic teeth or health conditions. Tooth extraction...
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Long-acting Local Anesthetic After Wisdom Teeth Removal
A new medication called Exparel produced by Pacira Pharmaceuticals provides an alternative to opioids for use as pain relief following wisdom teeth removal. Exparel is a long-acting local anesthetic...
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Storing Wisdom Teeth Stem Cells
In recent years there have been articles discussing harvesting stem cells located in wisdom teeth with the hope that one day they could be used to heal damaged cells in the body. Nowadays some oral...
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