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Management of the Dental Patient on Anticoagulant Medication

Dental patients taking anticoagulant medication pose a challenge for the clinician. Dentists are often...

Red Wine Can Help Prevent/Treat Periodontal Disease

Researchers are finding that components found in red wine can help in preventing and...

Na-No, Na-No? Bacteria?

In the late 1970s, television ratings skyrocketed with the sitcom of Mork and Mindy....

The Dentist’s Role in Managing Oral Complications of Cancer Therapies

More than a million new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the United States...

Treatment Planning for Dental Implants: A Rationale for Decision Making, Part 2: Partial Edentulism

A previous review1 considered the factors involved in the decision of whether to extract...

Review of Hemostatic Agents Used In Dentistry

Dentists perform a variety of surgical procedures frequently requiring the need for a hemostatic...

Oral Healthcare for Patients With Disabilities

The federal Healthy People initiative has provided a framework to address health disparities and...

Open Up and Relieve Back Pain

It has been well documented that back and neck problems are common among dentists.1...

Clinical Conditions and Lesions Mimicking Salivary Gland DiseasePart 2

The first part of this report began a review of clinical conditions and lesions...

Infection of Dental Implements and Appliances Part 1: The Toothbrush

Studies by Glass et al in the 1980s indicated that toothbrushes harbored microorganisms that...