DISCUSSIONS
Viewing all discussions from the past 30 days
Please choose your country and language:
| Dec 16, 2009 |
|
NEW YORK, NY, USA/LEIPZIG, Germany: New data by the University of California in San Francisco (UCSF) is supporting evidence that computer tomographic scans, known generally as CT, might pose a greater risk for cancer. The study, which estimated the radiation exposure associated with the 11 most common types of CT procedures in the US, found a significant variation for the same type of tomography procedures across clinics and institutions. According to the researchers, their study is the first large-scale examination of radiation doses given to patients that underwent different types of CT procedures.
|
1 Comment |
| Dec 8, 2009 |
|
According to the latest figures from the United Nations Organisation UNAIDS, more than 34 million people worldwide are currently living with HIV virus. New tests for HIV checks in dental practices have recently been developed. Dental Tribune Online met with Dr Catrise Austin, who maintains a dental practice on 57th Street in New York City, to speak about HIV testing in her practice and how such testing could help to create a heightened awareness of the disease amongst patients.
|
0 Comments |
| Dec 1, 2009 |
|
NEW YORK, NY, USA/LEIPZIG, Germany: Year after year, dental companies spend millions on the research and development of new products. Nobel Biocare as one of the biggest spenders in the dental industry uses about 4–5 per cent of their annual turnover for R&D. On the other side, there are thousands of ideas developed by individual dentists that will never be implemented because their inventors lack the funds or expertise to market their ideas or are downsized by shrinking R&D budgets in difficult economic times.
|
0 Comments |
| Sep 21, 2009 |
|
WALTHAM, MA, USA: According to Millennium Research Group (MRG), many top competitors in the global dental implant market are leading the growing movement toward the use of digital dentistry. MRG's Global Competitor Insights for Dental Implants 2009 report finds although 2008 was tumultuous year in the dental implant market, many leading dental implant companies continued to invest in digital dentistry, entering into a series of partnerships and acquisitions, with the goal of emerging from the economic crisis as innovative market leaders in the burgeoning field.
|
0 Comments |
| Jul 29, 2009 |
|
WASHINGTON, DC, USA: The US Food and Drug Administration said silver-coloured dental fillings that contain mercury are safe for patients, reversing an earlier caution against their use in certain patients, including pregnant women and children. While elemental mercury has been associated with adverse health effects at high exposures, the levels released by dental amalgam fillings are not high enough to cause harm in patients, the FDA said, citing an agency review of roughly 200 scientific studies.
|
2 Comments |
| Jun 19, 2009 |
|
LEIPZIG, Germany/WASHINGTON, DC, USA: Over 60 per cent of Americans consider dental coverage part of an overall health care reform by the Obama legislation, a new public opinion survey has shown. The poll released at the launch of National Smile Month in June and commissioned by Oral Health America revealed that four in five adults agree that dental benefits are as important as general medical benefits in an overall health care benefit package.
|
3 Comments |
|
|
