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For those who don’t like to drool, slur their speech or unknowingly bite their tongue after a visit to the dentist, help might be at hand.
A small drug company said it won approval Friday from the Food and Drug Administration to market the first drug meant to undo the effects of local dental anesthesia.
In clinical trials, the drug cut the median time it took for full sensation to return to the lips by about 75 to 85 minutes, or by more than half. For those who don’t like to drool, slur their speech or unknowingly bite their... more
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Shrugging off concerns about hygiene and Mexico's brutal drug war, thousands of Americans are heading to Ciudad Juarez and other Mexican border cities for cheap dental treatment.
U.S. dental treatment costs up to four times as much as in Mexico, making it tough for uninsured Americans to treat common problems such as abscessed teeth or pay for dentures. Aspiring Mexican dentists are moving to border cities in droves and are luring American patients away from farther flung discount destinations such as Hungary and Thailand.
Shrugging off concerns about hygiene and Mexico's brutal drug war, thousands of... more
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A Southampton dentist who allegedly claimed she was talking to a patient's dead mother during treatment faces an anxious wait to discover her fate.
Catherine Crowe who charged £400 an hour, is facing charges of serious professional misconduct at the General Dental Council for using unorthodox and inappropriate therapies.A Southampton dentist who allegedly claimed she was talking to a patient's dead... more
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A London based dentist has started offering his services online, giving discerning customers a check-up via webcam, and no, there's nothing sleazy going on.
The patients still have to go to a clinic to be filmed as well as receiving a once over from a hygienist at the same time. Jerry Watson, unsurprisingly, is singing online dentistry's praises, saying that he can now get paid four times his usual rate, ahem, he actually says he "can monitor patients at four clinics at once," my mistake.
Paving the way for his 'ten-year-plan' he said: "There's no reason people couldn't get seen from home if they've a high-quality camera."
It seems Mr. Watson has seen the future, with him more than happy to voice his, slightly eccentric, prediction, "the future is cameras in electric toothbrushes. That would be fantastic."A London based dentist has started offering his services online, giving discerning... more
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This combination may bring some odd ideas to mind, but don't worry, you won't be asked to bare your breasts next time you hit the dentist's chair. It seems that scientists at The University of Texas Dental Branch have noticed a difference in marker proteins found in saliva that indicates the presence of certain cancers and are developing a simple test for these proteins. The benefit of this is that many people visit the dentist more regularly than the doctor, and since you will already be opening your mouth, you might as well get all the health information you can. "Maybe one day it will be feasible to go to the dentist to be screened for a variety of disorders in the body, including breast cancer, " said Professor Damien Walmsley, scientific adviser at the British Dental Association in an interview with the BBC.
If you were to get the news that breast or another cancer was detected, The University of Manchester in England offers some hope. They've made a breakthrough in understanding how cancer makes its way through the body. Speaking to England's Daily Mail, researcher Dr Chris Ward said, "Understanding how cancer cells spread is tremendously important for cancer research. It is the ability of tumors to invade other tissues and spread around the body that makes them so dangerous." It's hoped this information will help create a new generation of targeted drugs. "Potentially, our findings can be applied to the most common form of cancer, carcinoma, found in the breast, lung and gut for example, which makes up 80 to 90 per cent of all cancers."
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a robotic dental patient with an eerily realistic appearance, has been spotted at the 2007 International Robot Exhibition in Tokyo. Designed primarily as a training tool for dentists, the fembot patient can follow spoken instructions, closely monitor a dentists performance during mock treatments, and react in a human-like way to mouth pain. Because Simroids realistic appearance and behavior motivate people to treat her like a human being, as opposed to an object, she helps dental trainees learn how to better communicate with patients.a robotic dental patient with an eerily realistic appearance, has been spotted at the... more
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This thing is just creepy. It's loaded with sensitive teeth and gums and a built in gag reflex. Is there no end to what robots can do? Nope.This thing is just creepy. It's loaded with sensitive teeth and gums and a built... more
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"Just gimme some whiskey and pull the SOB!" Can't afford dental insurance? Grab yourself some pliers and yank. That's what they say is being done overseas. Personally, I've always found the old 'tie a tooth to a doorknob' method pretty foolproof."Just gimme some whiskey and pull the SOB!" Can't afford dental... more
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