US Recognizes, Attempts to Tackle Prescription Opioid Epidemic Through the collaborative efforts of the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the White House, the American…

Needle Free Anesthesia? Dental anxiety is often related to patients’ fear of needles. A new study, however, suggests that needles may be replaced by iontophoresis, the use of a tiny electric current to administer anesthesia in the dental…

Inorganic Mercury May Damage Key Cell Processes In what is being called the first study to compare the effects of inorganic and organic mercury compounds on a model organism, University of Georgia, Athens, researchers sought to understand…

Effect of Periodontal Treatment on Type 2 Diabetes The prevalence of type 2 diabetes continues to increase among all ethnic groups in the United States and it exerts significant complications such as heart disease and stroke, blindness,…

Probiotic Milk May Reduce Caries Risk Milk does a body good and the inclusion of a probiotic within milk may provide additional oral health benefits. A recent study conducted by researchers at the University of Chile in Santiago examined…

American Academy of Pediatrics Updates Anesthesia Guidelines The American Academy of Pediatrics in Chicago, released its policy statement, “Critical Elements for the Pediatric Perioperative Anesthesia Environment,” in the December 2015…

Study Highlights Consequences of Methamphetamine Use Researchers at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) have published new findings that provide conclusive evidence of the devastating effects of methamphetamine use on oral…

Do Americans or Brits Have Superior Oral Health? A team of researchers set out to determine who has superior smiles—Americans or Brits—and the results are surprising.  While popular belief in the United States is that those in England have…

Bluetooth Enabled Retainer May Improve Patient Compliance A retainer that collects data on patient usage is no longer a hypothetical—it is a prototype. Researchers from the University of California San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry…

Research Sheds Light on Tonsil Cancer Current research demonstrates that most cases of tonsil cancers show evidence of the human papillomavirus (HPV), but HPV’s role in causing these cancers is not well understood. For this reason,…