A new study out of the University of Washington (UW) School of Dentistry suggests patients who experience bleeding gums may have a vitamin C deficiency.

The National Institutes of Health has halted research into the use of convalescent plasma (blood plasma from patients who have recovered from COVID-19 illness) to treat patients in the emergency department with mild to moderate COVID-19…

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This information is from the article Achieving an Accurate Diagnosis for Facial Paralysis by Gregory Griffin, DMD, Courtney S. Babb, DMD, and Kim L. Capehart, DDS, PhD, MBA. To read the article, click here.

Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J) one-dose, easily stored COVID-19 vaccination recently received Emergency Use Authorization from the United States Food and Drug Administration, increasing the number of immunizations available to the…

This information is from the article Caries Risk of E-Cigarette Use by Camille Biorn, RDH, BS. To read the article, click here.

With weeks of declining case numbers and increasing pandemic fatigue, many states are loosening COVID-19 restrictions, such as eliminating mask mandates and capacity restrictions. United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention…

Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a sleep breathing disorder characterized by severe hypoxia, or periods when an individual does not get enough oxygen during sleep. Upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) is classified beneath the umbrella…

A new paper published in Microsystems & Nanoengineering explores how new tears- and saliva-sensing technology could help manage eye or mouth diseases.

Good news regarding the global pandemic has abounded in recent weeks, and nowhere has that been more apparent than in nursing homes. Originally the hardest hit with more than 162,000 deaths attributed to COVID-19 illness since the start of…