White Teeth - Technique To Reattach Teeth Using Stem Cells Developed At Uic

A new approach to anchor teeth back in the jaw using stem cells has been developed and successfully tested in the laboratory for the first time by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. The new strategy represents a potential major advance in the battle against gum disease, a serious infection that eventually leads to tooth loss. About 80 percent of U.S...

White Teeth - First African-american Assumes As Ada President

Orlando, Fla .— Dr. Raymond F. Gist of Grand Blanc, Mich., took office Oct. 13 as the ADA's 147th president during the 2010 House of Delegates meeting here at annual session. Dr. Gist, the first African-American to hold the ADA’s highest elective office, succeeds Dr. Ron Tankersley as president.

White Teeth - Boost Practice Awareness With Dental Postcards To New Movers

The following is a guest post by MaKenzie Birchell of Bluewater. If you are interested in guest posting for Dental Heroes, please sign up here.Be sure to check out MaKenzie’s previous post post which is full of tips for setting up a postcard process targeted to retaining current patients.Why Target New Movers?New movers are an ideal audience to target in a dental postcard marketing campaign, since dentists are among the top services that people search for when relocating to a new area. Your postcard campaign can help those new movers check one more item off of their to-do list and bring you a new patientâ??or a whole family of new patients! In this post weâ??ll use our trusty Create-Target-Mail method to devise best practices for new mover mailings in a dental postcard marketing c...

White Teeth - Apical Microsurgery: Access And Crypt Management (part 3)

In Parts 1 and 2, I discussed the preparation of the patient, the incision and atraumatic flap elevation. These are the first three steps necessary to perform predictable apical microsurgery. As was mentioned earlier, it is of utmost importance that all steps are done completely before proceeding to the next step.

White Teeth - U.s. District Court Judge Jeremy Fogel Clears Path For California Executions To Resume â?? But Will They?

The newly renovated San Quentin Prison Death Chamber AP Photo Well, for now – or should I say until Monday afternoon, California executions as per state and federal law can proceed.A federal judge in San Jose gave the go-ahead today for next week’s scheduled execution of a convicted murderer from Riverside County, which would be the state’s first execution in nearly five years.U.S. District Judge Jeremy Fogel, who blocked lethal injections at San Quentin State Prison in February 2006 because of haphazard procedures, untrained staff and the potential of inflicting excruciating pain, said revised state regulations and a U.S. Supreme Court ruling had removed constitutional obstacles to renewed executions.Fogel acknowledged that he has not yet reviewed the state’s a...

White Teeth - Dentalxchange Supports Dentalone Partners, Inc., By Delivering A Company-wide Electronic Eligibility Solution

EDI Health Group, Inc., (EHG), parent company of DentalXChange, a provider of enhanced connectivity, streamlined technology and transaction solutions for patients, payers and providers in the dental industry, has been selected by DentalOne Partners, Inc...