Dental Technology
02/21/2007
Denture wearers take heart. Scientists in Japan claim they have for the first time developed a reliable way to generate new mouse teeth in a Petri dish. Although any application to humans is years away, the team hopes the new approach could eventually lead to the regeneration of entire organs in the lab.
Bioengeered organs are still in the earliest stage of development. Last year, Anthony Atala of Wake Forest University Medical School in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his colleagues transplanted some lab-grown bladders into human patients, a first for a discrete, complex organ.
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02/06/2007
When it comes to fighting cancer, early detection is the best weapon. Now, there's a new tool to detect a certain type of the disease.
Every hour someone in this country dies of oral cancer. One of the reasons it's often not detected until it's too late. "I'm going to have you open nice and big for me." As part of a routine dental exam, Dentist Steven Spitz is performing a cancer screening. But there's a limit to what Dr. Spitz can see with his eyes so he's turned to the velscope for help. "The velscope is the newest technology," said Dr. Steven Spitz, Dentist.
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02/06/2007
by Tech. Sgt. Parker Gyokeres
23rd Wing Public Affairs
2/2/2007 - MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. -- Dental work for deploying Moody Airmen that once took six weeks can now be accomplished at the dental clinic in a number of hours, thanks to a new computer-based system now in use.
The $64,000 system frees laboratory technicians from the time-consuming process of molding plaster, shaping wax, forging metal and then overlaying porcelain, said Tech. Sgt. Jason Shirey, 23rd Aerospace-Dental Squadron laboratory technician.
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01/25/2007
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BUFFALO, N.Y., Jan. 24 The University at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine is testing a nasal spray that numbs the upper teeth, which could mean the end of dental injections.
If this study is successful, it may mean the end of dental injections when dentists are performing procedures on the upper arch, said Sebastian Ciancio, principal investigator on the study.
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01/23/2007
Imagine having a decayed tooth repaired, painlessly, without drilling or shots of anesthesia to numb the area.
Wishful thinking? Not if two studies being conducted at the University at Buffalo's School of Dental Medicine show positive results.
In one study, funded by a $100,000 grant by Apollonia, LLC, researchers in the school's Center for Dental Studies are testing a nasal spray that numbs the upper teeth.
"If this study is successful," said Sebastian Ciancio, D.D.S., principal investigator on the study, "it may mean the end of dental injections when dentists are performing procedures on the upper arch.
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