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A Fast Track to Dental Careers
Colleges are exploring new educational pathways to strengthen the dental workforce amid persistent staffing shortages.
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A new treatment for individuals with leukocyte adhesion deficiency type 1 (LAD1) may also be beneficial for patients with Papillon-Lefèvre Syndrome, a genetic disorder associated with periodontitis.
Study of Electronic Dental Records Reveals Most Effective Therapies
Led by Regenstrief Institute research scientist Thankam Thyvalikakath, DMD, PhD, an associate professor and director of the dental informatics core at Indiana University School of Dentistry, the largest study to date of electronic dental…
Good News: Novel Coronavirus Is Not Spread by Mosquitoes
An experimental investigation conducted at Kansas State University’s Biosecurity Research Institute found that SARS-CoV-2 is unable to replicate in three common types of mosquitoes, making it impossible for them to transmit the virus to…
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Two Large Scale Trials Begin as Race for COVID-19 Vaccine Heats Up
Moderna and Pfizer have both begun large-scale clinical trials with 30,000 participants on their respective vaccines, with the hopes of obtaining regulatory approval and widespread distribution by the end of 2020. The Moderna and Pfizer…
How Diet Affects Oral Health
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NIH Researchers Introduce Plan to Improve Sars-CoV-2 Testing
With the need for simple, point-of-care testing that provides rapid results continuing to grow across the United States, scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) recently introduced the Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics…
Controlling the Immune Response That Causes Periodontal Diseases
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Germicidal Ultraviolet Light May Stop Spread of Novel Coronavirus
As SARS-CoV-2 is known to spread via aerosols during medical procedures and possibly in other instances, it is hoped that germicidal ultraviolet (UV) light may inactivate virus-carrying microbes, helping to disinfect the air in indoor…
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