November 2010 Dental News
Fun iPhone app to teach kids to brush
"A new iPhone application called Star Teeth iPhone app for kids was released on itunes AppStore last week.
The original idea of this iphone app came from one of the employees of the development company Fungamental Labs.
This mother-of-two has lots of experience with everyday small fights she has with her kids in the bathroom while brushing their teeth.
Fungamental Labs came up with StarTeeth and the aim of the app is to simply motivate children to brush their teeth properly by using a graphically attractive and lively adventure."
Oral care from the inside
"Take care of your teeth from the inside!
Good nutrition makes a huge difference to the health of the gums and without good gums, you won't hang on to your teeth.
Oral Care Complex, from Viridian Nutrition, is specifically formulated to support the underlying health of the mouth and gums."
Vitamin B veggies cut risk of mouth cancer
"Women who consume high volumes of folic acid found in vitamin B from vegetables and some fruits are less likely to suffer from mouth cancer.
A sample of 87,000 nurses were followed for 30 years from 1976 by researchers from the Columbia University Medical Centre and Harvard School of Public Health."
New oral cancer booklet tackles taboos
"A new guide to treating oral cancer warn dentists that patients are now taking legal action against dentists alleging failure to detect the condition.
It also explores taboos around the practitioner's right to explore patients' lifestyle choices that can cause oral cancer, such as drinking, smoking and chewing tobacco, and offers advice on how to overcome them."
Influence of deprivation on oral health study wins SGH funding
"A grant of more than £88,000 has been awarded to a study that will investigate the effect of social deprivation on oral health in outer north-east London. The project, which beat off competition from eleven other proposals to secure funding from the Shirley Glasstone Hughes Trust Fund, will investigate whether people living in deprived communities define oral health differently from their peers living in less deprived areas. It will also assess whether individuals’ concepts of oral health affect the way that they care for themselves and what barriers exist to individuals accessing care and adopting healthy behaviours."
Growth Factor Regenerates Tooth Supporting Structures: Results of a Large Randomized Clinical Trial
"It is well known that oral infection progressively destroys periodontal tissues and is the leading cause of tooth loss in adults. A major goal of periodontal treatment is regeneration of the tissues lost to periodontitis. Unfortunately, most current therapies cannot predictably promote repair of tooth-supporting defects. A variety of regenerative approaches have been used clinically using bone grafts and guiding tissue membranes with limited success."
Toothache More Common Among Minority and Special Needs Children, Study Finds
"Poor, minority and special needs children are more likely to be affected by toothache, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals."