Clinical Update
Researchers Connect Specific Protein to Head and Neck Cancers
The discovery that a certain protein is overexpressed in patients with oral cancer may...
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Potential Zinc Hazards for Patients
Dentists need to take a closer look at potential hazards of exposing patients to...
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Survival Rates of Teeth, Implants, and Removable Prostheses
A systematic literature review conducted by Beatrice Koller, DDS, et al investigated the survival...
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Challenging Periodontitis With Innate Immunity
A little more than 30 years ago, Dr. Anne C. R. Tanner and her...
Clinical Update
A Few Discoveries Away: Vaccinations and Immune Response
Vaccine developers still isolate, inactivate, and primarily inject disease-causing microorganisms into arms and legs...
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Trends in Tuberculosis
Preliminary data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) National TB...
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Computerized Tomography Scanning in Oral Surgery Recovery
Computerized tomography (CT) has proven to be a useful tool in reconstructive dental implant...
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Balancing Offense and Defense in Oral Biofilm
In the oral biofilm, the polymicrobial communities that inhabit our mouths, oral microbes benefit...
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Detecting Early Tooth Decay
Twenty years ago, in the journal Science, Huang, et al described their initial efforts...
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Minimally Invasive Caries Removal
Alumina air-abrasion has been used to remove caries and has been shown to over-prepare...