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Dentistry

Worried about your child's teeth? Focus on these three things

One in three Australian children have tooth decay by the time they start school. This rises to more than 40% by the time they're 8 or 9.

Oct 17, 2023

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Psychology & Psychiatry

Why grinding your teeth might not always be a bad thing

According to the Council of Dentists of Spain, bruxism is the dental diagnosis that has increased the most since the pandemic, almost quadrupling. In fact, its incidence among the population has gone from 6% to 23%.

Sep 21, 2023

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Cardiology

Take care of your teeth—for the sake of your heart

Most of us brush our teeth every day but lifting the lip afterwards and examining the gums? How often do we do that?

Jul 6, 2023

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Neuroscience

Taking good care of your teeth may be good for your brain, study suggests

Taking good care of your teeth may be linked to better brain health, according to a study published in the July 5, 2023, online issue of Neurology. The study found that gum disease and tooth loss were linked to brain shrinkage ...

Jul 5, 2023

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Dentistry

First study of sexual dimorphism in the deciduous canines of the Ratón Pérez collection

The Dental Anthropology Group at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) has published a paper on sexual dimorphism in the journal Anthropological Science, examining the differences between ...

Jun 28, 2023

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Dentistry

Smile! What are veneers and what do they do to your natural teeth?

It seems our perception of dental health and beauty has changed over the last 20 years or so. Social media posts, TV shows and films depict a perfect smile as being dominated by a broad pearly white teeth.

Jun 28, 2023

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Other

Forensic bitemark analysis for court trials not backed by sufficient data and 'is leading to wrongful convictions'

The commonly-used evidence in trials, bitemark analysis, is not backed up by scientific research—an analysis of current literature, and 12 new studies, shows.

Jun 23, 2023

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Dentistry

Sipping is terrible for your teeth

If you think sugar, soda, and sticky sweets are bad for your teeth, you're right. But there's something even worse: sipping.

Jun 21, 2023

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Health

Could your false teeth give you pneumonia?

For their study, now published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, researchers from Cardiff University, UK, began by taking mouth, tongue and denture swabs from a group of patients in hospital who had pneumonia and wore ...

Jun 21, 2023

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