Latest news on dental care

[ News: ] Aarhus shedding 70 percent of the skoletandklinikkerne

The great shortage of dentists, and the children's improved dental health, get now Aarhus municipality to change the current structure of the tandplejeområdet. Skoletandklinikkerne be reduced by approx. 70 percent and dentists must be in a storklinikker. The city council of Aarhus municipality decided Wednesday evening to gather skoletandlægerne on 10-16 storklinikker,... [Read more]

[ News: ] We are ready to fight obesity

Tandlægeforeningen interfering in the current debate about whether dentists should measure and weigh the children in order to prevent obesity. ”In Tandlægeforeningens the executive committee we find it natural that dentists are to prevent the problem of obesity among children and young people. Dentists in some municipalities already involved in multi-disciplinary consultancy... [Read more]

[ News: ] Regionsrådsmedlem excuse the mess in the North tandlægevagt

The president of the Tandlægenævnet in the north of Jutland, Regionsrådsmedlem Marian Geller (V), report himself personally ready with an excuse for a German tourist, who at the weekend in vain tried to get treatment for a severe and acute toothache. The German tourist who stayed in a cottage at Grønhøj Beach in north Jutland, was hit by a violent toothache... [Read more]

[ News: ] Acid injuries especially prevalent among teenage boys

Every third 16-year-old boy in the city of Frederiksberg has acid injuries of the teeth, which means the etching of the tooth enamel. Cola, soda and other soft drinks are supposed to be the main reason for syreskaderne – in the specialised language called erosions. The result comes from a study carried out by Frederiksberg Municipality's Dentistry, and presented... [Read more]

[ News: ] Your dentist can detect osteoporosis

With the help of x-rays can dentists help to detect osteoporosis, which particularly affects the elderly and middle-aged women. It writes lecturer, dr.odont. Ib Sewerin in an article in the Tandlægebladet. According to the WHO suffer from ca. 400.000 danes of osteoporosis, also called brittle bones, which reduces the strength in the bones causing frequent fractures.... [Read more]

[ News: ] The Danish dental phobia stress dentists

It is estimated that 10-20 percent of danes are so afraid of the dentist that they completely dropped the regular visits to the dentist. And to ca. 4 out of 10 adult danes suffer from dental phobia to one degree or another. In addition to having major consequences for the individual, they have high rates of dental phobia also major societal consequences. It costs... [Read more]

[ News: ] School introduces common tooth brushing to the morning assembly

Despite the fact that the students at Frøslev-Padborg Skole is good for brushing the teeth, several of the students comprehensive acid injuries to the teeth. The Municipal Dental care has now put the focus on the problem with the project “Stop acid injuries and holes in the teeth”, and have therefore introduced the common tooth brushing in the entire month of June. Dentures in... [Read more]

[ News: ] Younger dentists are not scared of the province

When the newly qualified dentists will be finished at the studio in either Copenhagen or Aarhus, are not afraid to seek jobs in the province. New figures from the Tandlægeforeningen shows that younger dentists graduated after 1990 are evenly distributed over the entire country, when it comes to private practice. It writes Tandlægebladet. Seen in relation to the total number of dentists... [Read more]

[ News: ] Municipal dental care in free-decay

The dental chair that is patched with gaffa-tape which in the processing must be supported with klinikassistentens knees to fall together. It can the 840 children on the waiting list in the north Funen municipality can look forward to. Follow the fylde is equipped in the nordfynske municipal dental care in a heavily decay that it is purely and simply... [Read more]

[ News: ] Professor advises against the recommendation of sugarless gum

The EU experts have recognized chewing gum with xylitol as a preventive against dental caries. But now, warns a professor of dentistry in Copenhagen against overfortolke the message that sugar-free gum with xylitol reduces risk of tooth decay in children. A group of experts from the European Food Safety Authority has ruled that xylitoltyggegummi... [Read more]

[ News: ] Water with lemon juice etches the teeth

Cola, fruit Juices and smoothies are far from the only drinks you should be careful with, if you want to avoid acid injuries to the teeth. Water with lemon or limeskiver is almost just as bad for the teeth such as cola. Summer, sun and cold drinks Now summer is approaching rapidly, increasing the need for cold drinks to make the thirst with... [Read more]

[ News: ] Tandsundheden among Greenlandic children alarming

Tandsundheden among Greenlandic children and young people is so poor that small children down to one year of age will get pulled mælketænderne out. “We must often remove the bad baby teeth because of advanced caries in young children,” says dentist Jørgen Ramstedt Jensen in Tasiilaq. “If you do not take care of your teeth, you can get... [Read more]

[ News: ] The elderly do not use omsorgstandplejen

While older citizens in some of the country's municipalities do not get offers on the statutory omsorgstandpleje, sorry for the other municipalities over the lack of commitment to the scheme. Instead of spending time in transport and waiting time at the dentist, the elderly and the disabled, in many cases, receive both studies, forebyggele of injuries and treatment... [Read more]