Oral Health Care cuts Hospitalization costs

It has been sometime since I posted, have been traveling attending various conferences. One things that hits hard is the state of scientific sessions, members attending conference are more keen to visit trade fair and food/drink and organizers have to face embarrassment of very few attendees in the lecture halls. Why this drama? why not do away with scientific talks and keynote addresses ?

Dentistry can not survive unless we are willing to face the challenges, there have been volume of research to show that Mouth Care is not OPTIONAL it should be given the very first priority if you want to enjoy sound health. This recent publication endorses this fact yet again. For all the resources visit Body mouth connection resource

A new study in the November issue of the Journal of Periodontology (JOP) found that prevention of periodontal diseases may lead to savings on not only dental costs, but also medical care costs. Periodontal, or gum diseases have been linked to systemic health conditions including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory problems. For full news CLICK HERE

Japanese dentists unveil high-speed dental ID system

Japanese scientists on Tuesday unveiled a new device that could save drawn-out trauma for relatives of those killed in disasters, by vastly speeding up the identification of victims from their dental records.

The computerized device scans images of victims' teeth and aligns them with pictures from unidentified people's dental records, looking for a fit, according to Eiko Kosuge, a dentist and radiologist at Kanagawa Dental College in Japan who led the study.

When many people are killed in a disaster such as an earthquake, plane crash or attack, experts currently identify their bodies one by one by comparing teeth with radiograph images or casts supplied by the victims's dentists.

But the process can take weeks and is not fully reliable, Kosuge said in a report introducing the new device.

The new system can automatically compare an image of a victim's teeth with numerous dental records and offer a match in less than four seconds, reducing the workload of forensic experts by 95 percent, his team of researchers said in the report.

It uses a high-precision image-matching technique named Phase-Only Correlation, which aligns images and measures their similarities.

Kosuge presented the new system Tuesday in Chicago at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America.