...a major risk factor contributing to AMR.4 Residual antibiotics used in food-producing animals may affect humans because resistant pathogens can be transferred through consumption of the animal and its byproducts....

...control trials.23 PRACTICAL GUIDELINES The management of dentinal hypersensitivity should first seek to eliminate other competing diagnoses that might account for a patient’s symptomology. Alternate causes for sensitivity include…

...health messages about the relationship of care management for diabetes and improved oral hygiene.23 Cardiovascular diseases account for 30% of deaths in the US annually. Approximately 47% of adults older...

...used to measure root caries. In 1980, the root caries index (RCI) was introduced to address limitations associated with the DFS index, which does not account for the number of...

...is not associated with a systemic disease.1,3 The defect results in enamel that is hypoplastic, hypocalcified, or hypomature. Numerous subtypes with variable patterns of inheritance exist, which account for the...

...most recent data demonstrate that approximately one in every 33 babies (about 3%) are born with a birth defect.5 One of the leading causes of infant deaths, birth defects account...

...outcomes is maternal infection, which is believed to account for most of preterm delivery cases (25% to 40%).1 The primary etiology of virtually all periodontal diseases is bacterial biofilm, or...