A recent laboratory study indicates that do-it-yourself teeth bleaching products may cause some weakening of teeth enamel, as well as the enamel’s ability to recover from normal wear and tear. These home teeth bleach kits have been written about in the March 2009 “Journal of Dentistry”. According to Dr. Shereen S. Azer from the Ohio State University College [...]
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Teeth Whiteners May Harm Tooth Enamel by Weakening The Surface
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It’s not here yet, but in the future, the technology may exist to allow dental patients to actually regrow teeth by planting “seeds” in their jaws for new teeth. Sound farfetched? Well, don’t look now, but it has already been done in mice. This has successfully been done by some sicentists, and they say it [...]
Some people think chewing gum can be beneficial because it burns calories. This is hardly effective. Chewing gum is a kind of exercise, but it doesn’t expend much energy. Chewing gum uses a few calories, but you have to chew for an hour to burn 11 calories. If you chewed for 12 hours every day [...]
By Dr. John Berchelmann Jr We have all heard that if we eat sweets, that we will get cavities or holes in our teeth. This is not exactly true, because cavities are a disease process and not directly caused by the sugar we eat. What is the cause of a cavity? A cavity is a bacterial infection. [...]
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Critical care: there’s more to oral health than pearly whites.
Filed in UncategorizedBy Debby Waldman, Canwest News Service April 14, 2009 When you hear the term “oral health,” chances are you think about brushing, flossing, and visiting the dentist. All play a critical role but Dr. Deborah Stymiest, a Fredericton, N.B. dentist and president of the Canadian Dental Association, says oral health means more than just healthy [...]
Pay attention to your mouth because it could be telling you something about the rest of your body, a new study has confirmed. People with the germiest mouths are the most likely to have heart attacks, researchers reported at the beginning of National Oral Health Month in April. A study that compared heart attack victims [...]
IAN SAMPLE 11/03/2009 11:32:24 PM The days of whining drills and shrieking patients that can make a trip to the dentist an experience to dread may be numbered. Scientists claim they may have found a way to regrow rotting teeth. Researchers studying tooth development have singled out a gene that controls the growth of enamel, [...]
Most of us have grown up being taught that fluoride is good, even essential, for the development of strong, healthy teeth. But if you take the time to investigate this claim, you’re in for a shock. In its very basic form, fluoride is a pollutant, a toxic chemical. Yet not only is it being put [...]
Move over, fillings. Scientists at the University of California, San Francisco, are working to remineralize and restore upper layers of teeth eaten away by cavities. Researchers are delving into extracted human teeth, filling them with a calcium and phosphate-containing solution in attempt to remineralize the tooth, said Sally Marshall, researcher and professor in the Division [...]
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