Dental Death Again and Licking your Wounds Helps ?

Fifth dental Death in 3 years

A fifth person has died in Washington within the last three years after complications related to oral surgery.Mikhail Manyak, 20, a University of Washington computer engineering student, died Sunday after suffering a massive allergic reaction to medications prescribed following surgery to correct his jaw alignment, according to the King County medical examiner.

The death has not yet been reported to the state. By law, the practitioner has 30 days to report a death or hospitalization related to a dental procedure.

Oral surgeon Gary Feldman of Seattle performed the surgery, according to Manyak's father. Feldman, a private practitioner affiliated with Swedish Medical Center, did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Swedish Medical Center routinely does an internal investigation after an unexpected death such as Manyak's, said hospital spokesman Ed Boyle. Details of that investigation are not yet known.

Manyak died after suffering a loss of oxygen to his brain related to the allergic reaction, according to the Medical Examiner's Office. More here

Air Rotar handpiece and Tooth brush will be obsolete soon

Scientists at Leeds Dental Institute have created a solution that mimics the way the body forms new teeth, which can be used to repair holes naturally without the need for drilling and filling.

The same researchers have also formulated a mouthwash that kills the bacteria that cause plaque when a light is shone into the mouth.

They believe the mouthwash could be available in as little as three years or less while the alternative to drilling could be ready for use within five years.

The alternative to drilling comes from a new protein which allows the body to repair holes in the enamel on the surface of the tooth naturally.

It creates a scaffold which attracts the minerals that form enamel in the same way as the body creates new teeth.

The substance can be painted on teeth while decay is in the early stages to fill tiny holes before they become large holes full of decay.

Prof Jennifer Kirkham, Research Director at the institute, said: "I can't bear the noise of the drill and it is surprising how many people say just the sound is enough to instil fear. We looked at a way to treat early decay and avoid drilling. More here

Licking Your Wounds: Scientists Isolate Compound In Human Saliva That Speeds Wound Healing

A report by scientists from The Netherlands published online in The FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org/) identifies a compound in human saliva that greatly speeds wound healing. This research may offer hope to people suffering from chronic wounds related to diabetes and other disorders, as well as traumatic injuries and burns. In addition, because the compounds can be mass produced, they have the potential to become as common as antibiotic creams and rubbing alcohol.

"We hope our finding is ultimately beneficial for people who suffer from non-healing wounds, such as foot ulcers and diabetic ulcers, as well as for treatment of trauma-induced wounds like burns," said Menno Oudhoff. More here

Soy foods reduce sperm numbers

A regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may halve sperm concentrations, suggest scientists.

The study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, found 41 million fewer sperm per millilitre of semen after just one portion every two days.

The authors said plant oestrogens in foods such as tofu, soy mince or milk may interfere with hormonal signals. More here

How to access all India mobile number Directory/ Dental Caries Research Update

With this Great service you can find out the location of an unknown mobile number. To try it out now CLICK HERE


First Test For Predicting Cavities In Children

The Caries Assessment and Risk Evaluation (CARE) test measures the relative proportions in saliva of different types of sugar chains, known as oligosaccharides. The same sugar chains are present on tooth surfaces.

The effect of sugar chains on the tooth's ability to resist disease is analogous to the effect of "good" and "bad" cholesterol on blood vessels. "Good" sugar chains tend to repel the bacteria that cause cavities, while "bad" sugar chains allow the bacteria to bond to a tooth and start the decay process. More HERE

Many Common Drugs Promote Tooth Decay

For teeth constantly on the mend from the effects of acid-producing bacteria that set up housekeeping in our mouths, saliva is a fabulous fluid. Saliva protects and helps repair our teeth from the constant assaults that bacteria and our diet together mount against our tooth enamel. But more than 600 medications cause dry mouth, reducing saliva flow or even turning off the spigot and leaving millions of people at increased risk for tooth decay. MORE

Mother's Vitamin D Status During Pregnancy Will Affect Her Baby's Dental Health

Low maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy may affect primary tooth calcification, leading to enamel defects, which are a risk factor for early-childhood tooth decay.
Investigators from the University of Manitoba (Winnipeg and Victoria) recently presented* the results of a study they conducted to determine the vitamin D status of pregnant women, the incidence of enamel defects and early-childhood tooth decay among their infants, and the relationship with pre-natal vitamin D levels.

Two hundred six pregnant women in their second trimester participated in the study. Only 21 women (10.5%) were found to have adequate vitamin D levels. Vitamin D concentrations were related to the frequency of milk consumption and pre-natal vitamin use. MORE HERE

Pregnancies Linked To Tooth Loss

The old wives tale "for every child the mother loses a tooth" has some validity, a New York University dental professor has found.
Women who have more children are more likely to have missing teeth, according to a nationwide study of 2,635 women by Dr. Stefanie Russell, an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology & Health Promotion, which was published today on the Web site of the American Journal of Public Health.

Dr. Russell's conclusions are based on information on white and black non-Hispanic women ages 18-64 who reported at least one pregnancy in the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, a representative study of the U.S. population.

"This is the first time we've seen a connection between pregnancy and tooth loss affecting women at all socioeconomic levels in a large, heterogeneous sample of the U.S. population," Dr. Russell remarked. More HERE

Topical Oral Syrup Prevents Early Childhood Caries, Study Shows

Dental researchers at the University of Washington have reported a significant reduction of tooth decay in toddlers who were treated with the topical syrup xylitol, a naturally occurring non-cavity-causing sweetener.
In a recent clinical trial in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, children 6 to 15 months old were given oral doses of xylitol in fruit-flavored syrup daily to determine whether the substance can prevent early-childhood tooth decay, or "caries".

Researchers reported that nearly 76% of the children in the group who received xylitol were free of tooth decay by the end of the study, compared with 48% of the children in the group that did not receive the substance.

The Marshall Islands in the Pacific were chosen for the study because it is an area where childhood tooth decay is a serious public health problem. The average child entering Head Start at age 5 has 6.8 cavities--two to three times the rate in a typical mainland community. Researchers came from the Northwest/Alaska Center to Reduce Oral Health Disparities and the Department of Dental Public Health Sciences at the University of Washington, Seattle. More HERE

How safe are you, on Internet? New tech for caries

Firefox Users Most Secure on Internet, Study Reveals
July 2008

Mozilla Firefox fans might rest a little easier these days after a study released Tuesday revealed that its users are most secure on the Internet.

The study "Understanding the Web browser threat: Examination of vulnerable online Web browser populations and the "insecurity iceberg," was a collaborative effort conducted by researchers at The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Google and IBM (NYSE:IBM) Internet Security Services. The research offers a comprehensive analysis of Web browsers, particularly in the area of security. The study's aim was to analyze Web browser preference and behavior for people using the Internet.

Altogether, the study found that less than 60 percent (59.1) of people use up-to-date, fully patched Web browsers. Failure update browsers exponentially increases the chance for remote attacks executed by hackers, the study found. More HERE
Danger of children brushing teeth too much

More than three-quarters (79%) of dental professionals are seeing more acid erosion on children's teeth on a weekly basis than ever before, according to new research. And more than half (53 per cent) of five year olds have some form of the problem which is caused by acid in food and drink rotting away the enamel of the tooth. Professor Jimmy Steele of the School of Dental Sciences at The University of Newcastle analysed the results of the study. He said: "Adult teeth generally start to appear when children are six years-old and need to last a lifetime, so protection from an early age is key. "Encourage them to drink acid drinks with a straw placed towards the back of the mouth away from teeth. "And encourage children to avoid brushing their teeth immediately after consuming acidic food or drinks as this is when the enamel is at its softest - it's best to wait as long as possible after an acidic meal or brush beforehand." The main cause of acid erosion is drinks, not only fizzy ones but those containing fruit are high in acid. More here

Breakthrough Technology That Will Revolutionize The Treatment Of Tooth Decay

Quantum Dental Technologies, a Canadian diagnostic device company, revealed its breakthrough technology which detects and monitors the early onset of tooth decay without the need for dental x-rays. It reduces the number of invasive and painful procedures, and encourages better oral health. Quantum introduced its Dental Caries Detection System prototype, known as The Canary System, at the International Association for Dental Research (IADR) Conference in Toronto, Canada.

"Dentists are limited in their abilities to detect and monitor the early stages of tooth decay with traditional diagnostic tools such as the X-ray and visual examination," said Dr. Stephen Abrams, Chief Executive Officer of the Toronto-based Quantum Dental Technologies and dental clinician. "Now, with this innovative new system that is pain free, non-invasive and provides early caries detection, we can finally move away from intervention, or the filling of cavities, to focus on prevention and actual remineralization or healing of small areas of tooth decay." MORE HERE

Antibiotic cover of No use in joint problems
July 2008

Research published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - British Volume (JBJS-Br), shows that there is 'no evidence to link prosthetic joint infections to dental procedures' and that the money currently being spent on preventative antibiotics would be better spent on 'high-quality dental care'. More here


Soft drinks more cariogenic compared to fruit juice and milk

JADA July 2008
Methods. Trained dentists and interviewers examined a representative sample of 369 children, aged 3 to 5 years, in 2002–2003 and again two years later. The authors used the 2000 Block Kids Food Frequency Questionnaire (NutritionQuest, Berkeley, Calif.) to collect dietary information. They assessed caries by using the International Caries Detection and Assessment System.

Results. Soft drinks, 100 percent fruit juice and milk represented the sugared beverages consumed by the cohort. A cluster analysis of the relative proportion of each drink at baseline and follow-up revealed four consumption patterns. Using zero-inflated negative binomial models, the authors found that children who changed from being low consumers of soft drinks at baseline to high consumers after two years had a 1.75 times higher mean number of new decayed, missing and filled tooth surfaces compared with low consumers of soft drinks at both time points.

Conclusion. Children who consumed more soft drinks, relative to milk and 100 percent fruit juice, as they grew older were at a greater risk of developing dental caries.

5 year old Kid dies after Root Canal & Laptop theft

Child dies after Root Canal, TOI 28 June, 2008

MUMBAI: A five-year-old child from Dahisar died during a root canal dental procedure on Friday. While the root canal itself was over, doctors said the girl, Krisha Joshi, suffered a cardiac arrest while her anaesthesia was being reversed and died within two hours of the procedure at Rose and Petal Hospital in Borivli.

The Borivli police have registered a case of accidental death.

Her uncle, Chirag Trivedi, told TOI, "Going by the credentials of the dentist, we took her to that clinic. As he had just returned from Japan, a dentist from his team checked Krisha and told us that she needed nearly 14 root canals, which could be done in one sitting. We asked for the six major ones to be done first." Krisha had gone to Dr Uday Tamhankar's clinic on Friday, but as the procedure required general anaesthesia, it was decided that she would undergo the procedure at the nearby hospital. She was taken there thrice before for basic check-ups.

On the day of the root canal procedure, Krishna was taken to the hospital around 8 am and was administered with general anaesthesia. As Dr Tamhankar was away, another dentist, Mrunal Kende, performed the procedure, after which the parents were called in and shown her work. Following that, Dr Kende left the clinic, while anaesthetist Dr Prajakta Kulkarni monitored her condition. It was when she took a turn for the worse that the team called other paediatricians and tried to resuscitate her, but in vain. Full News item

Caphosol Favorably Impacts Both The Rate And Severity Of Oral Mucositis In Cancer Patients

New data show that use of CAPHOSOL® (http://www.caphosol.com/), an advanced oral electrolyte solution, resulted in both favorable impact on rates and severity of oral mucositis (OM) in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy and radiation therapy. The data, which were presented at the 20th International Symposium of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer (MASCC) and the International Society of Oral Oncology (ISOO), also demonstrate that CAPHOSOL use is associated with low use of pain medication and high levels of patient and physician satisfaction. More here

How to Prevent Laptop Theft

More and more of us today have laptops, and these tips will be helpful to know.

AHMEDABAD: apr 08 Businessman Dipesh Shah parked his car near his house in Aman Bungalows on the 100-feet Ring Road and turned in for the night after activating his Rs 30,000 worth car security system.

Early on Tuesday morning, his domestic help reported that his car window was broken. It had been neatly cut out and his expensive laptop and state-of-the-art car stereo system was gone. The automated car security system had not beeped even once.

This is not a solitary incident. Police records show that one laptop is stolen from cars almost every day from posh and busy zones like Drive-In Road, SG Highway, Shivranjani Crossroads and Gurukul Circle. In the last month alone, 23 laptop thefts were reported in the city, mostly from Satellite police station. And the police are clueless.

TIPS to Prevent Theft

1. Visual deterrents - A laptop in the office environment should be secured with a lock or put into a secure locker when not in use. An opportunistic burglar could be put off by a lock as they have only a small window of time to get out before they are discovered.

2. Don’t make it obvious you are carrying a laptop - Rather that a tell-tale laptop bag, laptops should be carried in inconspicuous bags, such as backpacks or tote bags.

3. Avoid leaving laptops unattended - Lock them in cupboards or other secure facilities when not being used. If they must be left in a car, they should be covered up or locked in the boot.

4. Discourage theft by publicising the use of security products such as asset tracking software - If thieves think that they might be caught, they will be less likely to take it in the first place.

5. Add identification to your laptop - For example, adding barcodes or engraving details onto the device will act as a deterrent. Thieves usually steal laptops to immediately sell them on. Obvious identification makes it a less desirable target.

6. When flying, never check your laptop in as luggage - Laptops should be taken onto a plane as hand luggage. Be aware of thieves swapping briefcases coming out of the x-ray machine at security.