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Oral Cancer Awareness Month is in April

Dentistry Today

Every hour, 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year, someone dies of oral or oropharyngeal cancer (cancer of the back of the oral cavity and upper throat). Yet if oral cancer is detected and treated early, treatment-related health problems are reduced, and survival rates may increase. The Oral Cancer Foundation.

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Oklahoma and Oregon Dental Boards to Require Education Minimums for Dental Implant Surgery

Dentistry Today

Patients may also be damaged by a failure of the implant surgeon to appropriately plan for the level of biomechanical loading forces. Specialists licensed in oral and maxillofacial surgery, periodontics, prosthodontics, and endodontics are exempted from the requirement in paragraph 1 of this subsection.

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What They Didn’t Tell You About the TMJ in Dental School

Dentistry Today

We focused on the details and the techniques of cavity and crown prep, did the lab work necessary for our prosthodontics courses, and paid lip service to the diagnostic sciences. But where did this TMJ thing fit in? She runs her private practice in Orlando. Disclosure: Dr.

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Is Dynamic Navigation the Future of Implant Placement Technology?

Dental News and Technology

Recently published in the Journal of Oral Implantology, authors in this study evaluated the precision and predictability outcomes of conventional and dynamic navigation methods for computer-guided implant placements. LAWRENCE, Kan. , Lead author Gautami S.

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Bone Replacement Protocol Successfully Treats Children With Jaw Tumors

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

A study published in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery reports that a procedure consisting of removing a tumor from a patient’s jaw, followed by immediate jaw reconstruction using viable bone from the patient’s leg, can treat mandibular tumors with few complications in children. .