Out With Rationing, In With Price Controls The Wall Street Journal Britain’s ‘reform’ will do little to improve access to life-extending drugs (5/25)…

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A defective, mutant strain of the bacterium that causes gum disease could provide a clue to potential treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and a number of other diseases. Researchers from the University of Florida College of Dentistry report their findings today at the 110th General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology in San Diego…

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Rice University bioengineering students really get their teeth into their senior design projects. This year, one team got everybody else’s teeth into it, too. Five Rice seniors have created a portable dental suction device, an inexpensive, battery-powered version of the vacuum system commonly used in dentists’ offices to remove blood and saliva from a patient’s [...] Read more »

A technique pioneered in the Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine Laboratory of Dr. Jeremy Mao, the Edward V…

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Dr Amarjit Gill, a general dental practitioner in Nottingham, will become the 124th President of the British Dental Association (BDA) on Thursday 20 May. Dr Gill will be presented with his chain of office and make his inaugural speech as BDA President at the opening of the 2010 British Dental Conference and Exhibition at Liverpool’s [...] Read more »

In a large natural disaster, such as the Haitian earthquake earlier this year, or in an unsolved homicide case, knowing the birth date of an individual can guide forensic investigators to the correct identity among a large number of possible victims…

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In a statement today, StemSave™ Inc., the market leader in the field of stem cell recovery and cryo-preservation lauds research published in the current issue of the Journal of Dental Research citing a new technique pioneered by the authors that can orchestrate the body’s own stem cells to regenerate teeth. StemSave commends the authors for [...] Read more »

An overhaul of the way dental research is organised is required in order to enhance excellence and ensure that it remains internationally competitive. That’s according to a UK research summit for oral and dental researchers to consider the current state of dental research and its future…

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It’s no secret that pregnancy is an important time in a woman’s life. While women often hear about how pregnancy causes physical changes that affect their hormone or appetite levels, these changes can have a great effect on their oral health as well…

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Young Aboriginal adults have 2-11 times higher adverse clinical oral health outcomes than young Australian adults generally, according to research published in the Medical Journal of Australia…

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