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Advertisements for toothpaste and mouthwash shoot far above the target A clean mouth for up to 12-24 hours. This is often in advertisements for toothpaste and mouthwashes, but the claims in advertisements are often directly untrue. That is why many consumers around with unrealistic ideas of what the type of products can accomplish. It said lead dentist Bo Danielsen, focusing on the problem in Dental Society ... [More]
"Sweet" cultural background affects young children caries If mom and dad have a short training or non-Western background, the risk of caries in children significantly higher than in average. It shows a new Norwegian study, published in Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology. In the study, 523 children by dental examination, while parents answering questions about socio-economic ... [More]
Better oral hygiene could save ventilator patients' lives One of the most frequent complications in patients in hospital intensive care units is pneumonia. Pulmonary Infection in the respiratory therapy affects not only older people but debilitated patients of all ages. In a large U.S. study, recently published in American Journal of Critical Care, researchers examined ... [More]
Dentists want higher fee for non-attendance Some of the dentist's prices are fixed in the so called dentist agreements concluded between the Dental Association and the Danish Regions. When negotiations between the Dental Association and the Danish Regions began in February 2010, it was such with a wish from the Dental Association's side to discuss a higher no-show fee agreed by major ... [More]
Lower sugar levies gives poorer teeth It's a bomb in particular children and young people's dental health, sugar levies have decreased every year since 2001. It goes Dental Association President Susanne Andersen, commenting on new data from the Treasury. - We can see that the portions have become larger over the last ten years and it is hardly unlikely that it has something to do ... [More]
Higher subsidies for dental care in Norway Among the Norwegian Government's election promises was that it would extend the grant to increase public dental care. This is partly done by making inquiries free of charge for persons over 75 years, and by possibly putting a cap on an upper user charge of DKK 3,000 per year, whereby the government provides full or partial subsidy for other expenses .... [More]
Oral hygiene important for nursing home residents' nutritional status Oral Care improves the nutritional status of dependent elderly shows a Japanese study. Good oral care affects BMI and cholesterol in 53 elderly nursing home residents were included in the study. It was a group of professional oral care three times a week for a year. A second group served as control. As the years had elapsed, subjects were given ... [More]
Absences involving risk of caries in children Non-attendance increases the risk of caries in children absences from dental contracts, dental phobia and parents who avoids dental treatment are risk factors for the development of caries in children, according to a new Swedish study. The study includes more than 500 children and their parents. The Swedish authors conclude that children who have a ... [More]
Smoking cessation changes the bacterial flora in the mouth Oral bacterial flora changes in people who quit smoking are American researchers now believe to have found a reason why people who quit smoking have a better dental health. Acknowledge your tobacco will happen some changes in oral bacterial profile. Even after six months is a significant difference in bacterial flora, ... [More]
Tongue Piercings give sponge 2 out of 10 piercings in the tongue gives thrush A study published in the journal Oral Diseases shows that tongue piercings gives sponge. In an Israeli study, 115 young healthy tungepiercede subjects compared with 86 young healthy people with piercings outside the mouth. Twice as many of the tungepiercede (20%) was found to have sponge. Read ... [Read more]
Elderly do not know of home dental care scheme Home dental care is offered to the elderly and severely disabled, who find it difficult even to report a dental visit. But several hundred elderly people in Aalborg Municipality miss the offer dental care at home because they do not know about the scheme, writes TV2/Nord. Equipped with a small suitcase dentists dentist can solve most household tasks, ... [More]
Patient Insurance convicted of utterances about drugDental Association's Patient Insurance has today been sentenced to pay CMS Dental 2.5 million. million in damages. The judgment has fallen in a case concerning an article in Dentistry magazine from 2005. The article advised the President of the Dental Association's Patient Insurance dentists to be careful when they used 4% articaine with bedøvelser in the lower jaw. The judgment ... [More]
Dental care for homeless and social risk spreading It is no longer only in Bisserne in Copenhagen that homeless people can get their teeth sorted. Aalborg, Arhus, Odense and Aarhus have now also been awarded money for dental treatment for the social risk. At the same time, Copenhagen can look forward to another clinic. - It's fantastic that socially vulnerable in several places in the country may now subordinate their teeth .... [More]
