Dental health is equally important to your health. You might have read so many dental health articles on preventing tooth decay, expel bad breath, stay away from mouth injuries and many more. This article also contains some useful information about dental health and the useful tips on ‘how to become a dentist in the US.’ [...]
If you are the victim of the medical malpractice, than you are at the right to get the justice for your suffer and pain, but many pain cannot even imagine, which is given by the doctors, while their course of treatment. Malpractice victims sometimes cannot be recovered from any court cases, but victim should have [...]
Much of today’s dental equipment has been refined over the years. The first dental instruments were drills made of flint, wooden sticks beaten to make one end fibrous and soft for scraping teeth, and the like. Evidently, man has been battling tooth decay and oral disease since time immemorial. We can best show the kinds [...]
Dental Instrument Sterilization is clearly defined and outlined by the Centers for Disease Control Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings, issued in 2003. These guidelines are intended to educate dental personnel regarding infection control and to prevent the transmission of bloodborne pathogens.
This comprehensive document covers: hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, contact dermatitis/latex allergy, [...]
The oral cavity is colonized by more than 400 species of aerobic and anaerobic bacteria. Anaerobic bacteria outnumber their aerobic counterparts by a ratio of 10:1 to 100:1. These organisms inhabit the teeth, the gingival crevice, the mucous membranes, the dorsum of the tongue, and saliva. Dental infections can occur in a number of ways: [...]
Bilateral Submandibular Gland Infection Presenting as Ludwig’s Angina: First Report of a Case
Abstract
We diagnosed and treated a case of Ludwig’s angina in a 45-year-old man who had edema of the floor of month and the tongue along with bilateral submandibular sialadenitis and sialolithiasis. We secured the patient’s airway via nasal fiberoptic intubation in the surgical [...]
A. Johal1 and J. M. Battagel2
1Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant, Dept of Orthodontics, St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London E1 1BB; 2Senior Lecturer, Dept of Orthodontics, St Bartholomew’s and The Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London E1 1BB.
Correspondence to: Mr A. Johal, Department of Orthodontics, 3rd Floor, Dental Institute, [...]
A. W. Green,1 E. A. Flower2 and N. E. New3
1SHO Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Norfolk; 2Consultant Oral and Maxillo-facial Surgery, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Norfolk; 3Consultant Histopathologist, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King’s Lynn, Norfolk.
Correspondence to: A. W. Green, 6 King Street, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE30 1ES
Odontogenic causes are the most [...]
Journal by: Ear, Nose & Throat Journal, August, 2004 by John D. Edwards, Nader Sadeghi, Farzad Najam, Mark Margolis
ABSTRACT
We review an interesting case of craniocervical necrotizing fasciitis with thoracic extension in an immunocompetent 44-year-old man. The patient underwent aggressive medical and surgical management during a long hospitalization. Multiple, surgical debridements, [...]
Dentist, root canal, pain, screams, fear. This is exactly how many people associate words when it comes to any type of the district procedure, the order of the words may change of it but the general concept remains the same. The fact that people are afraid of the dentist is what for the most part [...]