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[Event:] Scandefa 2010, Scandinavian Dental Fair

Scandefa (Scandinavian Dental Fair) is the annual Scandinavian trade fair for the dental team and dental industry. Fair connects new knowledge about products, research and clothing, and has more than 10,000 visitors from Scandinavia and other countries, and over 150 exhibitors. Parallel to the fair Scandefa, organized by the Bella Center, held Semester Course, ... [More]

[Article:] brackets to orthodontic

In the past, orthodontic something that was reserved for children, and they thought it was too late to correct teeth when you were a little older. But it has the technological developments and new hanger types to change. Today you can correct teeth regardless of age. Treatment time depends on how much should be paid up on the teeth, ... [More]

[News:] 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]

[News:] The dentist should know all about your medication

The dentist needs to know if you take medication or wrong thing. Many patients fail to disclose their drug use, although it may prove to be decisive for the outcome of a dental treatment that the dentist is informed. Almost every tenth Dane taking blood thinners to prevent blood clots. But while blood clots ... [More]

[News:] pacifier on thumb can cause dental problems

Narre pacifier, also known as the nipple on the thumb, can give children overshot or open bite. It shows a new study of feeding habits among preschool children documented in the World Journal of Orthodontics. The study was a group of 34 preschool children divided into three groups: One group with bottle feeding habits, with a baby bottle and pacifier habits ... [More]

[News:] Cheaper to go to the dentist

Sages of the Economic Council is now proposing that it be cheaper to go to the dentist. In return, the scheme is financed by higher user fees when you visit your physician and emergency room. In the economic wise men after the annual report, released 22nd October 2009, gives wise men their bid for a more equitable state funding for ... [More]

[News:] Elderly patients with dementia suffer from poor oral hygiene

Dementia causes major changes - also in terms of dental health. Research shows that a clear link between dementia and poor oral hygiene. The medicine they are demented, also helps that they get dry mouth, which gives a much greater risk of caries and fungal infections. Dentists, nurses and caregivers should be in. .. [More]

[News:] Tooth decay is transmitted from adults to children

It's probably very few mothers who know the composition of bacteria in their saliva and probably even fewer who know that this affects their child's dental health for life. Kisses and hugs are fine, but contact in an exchange of saliva can transmit "cariesbakterier" from mother to child. Parents should be better informed, is the assessment ... [More]

[News:] Bad breath is often caused by constipation

Recent Danish research shows that the explanation for bad breath, often to be found further down than in the oral cavity. The culprit may instead be constipation, which is the case with almost every fourth patient, complaining of bad breath. The solution is usually a healthier lifestyle. Chief of Surgery at Hillingdon Hospital Intestinal Laboratory ... [Read more]

[News:] Children in Kalundborg has more holes than average

A local works councils within the municipal dental care warns against a spareforslag, which provides for the children first be convened dental examinations at age two, instead of as now one year old. Every seventh child lives in a socially deprived homes Local Cooperation states that every seventh child in Kalundborg municipality comes ... [More]

[News:] Parents do not take responsibility for their children's dental health

Two out of five parents defy Dental Association recommendations, and not helping their children to brush teeth, according to a new study by Codan Insurance. According to the survey, nearly one in four children under 11 years today one or more holes in the teeth. Meanwhile, 44 percent of all children eat candy two to three times a week. Parents ... [More]

[News:] Aarhus dismantles 70 percent of school dental clinics

The great shortage of dentists and the children improved dental health, will now Aarhus municipality to change the current structure of the dental field. School dental clinics is reduced by approx. 70 percent and dentists must gather in large clinics. The city council of Aarhus municipality decided Wednesday night to bring together school dentists on 10-16 large clinics, ... [More]

[News:] We are ready to fight obesity

Dental Association interfering in the current debate about whether dentists should measure and weigh children to prevent obesity. "In Dental Society general, we find it natural that dentists are helping to prevent problems with obesity among children and adolescents. Dentists are in some municipalities already involved in multi-disciplinary consultancy ... [More]