Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

For years, the closest dental provider for residents of the Poospatuck Reservation in Mastic, located on the South Shore of Long Island, New York, was a 30-minute drive or 2-hour bus ride to Stony Brook School of Dentistry. Because most members of the Unkechaug Indian Nation who reside on Poospatuck use public transportation, the time and expense required to make such a trip ...

What keeps patients away from the dental clinic? Lack of insurance, no transportation, few available providers, inability to take time off work … the list goes on. And the consequences of no dental care are significant: more than 60% of Americans age 65 and older have some type of periodontal disease and 57% of teenagers have had at least one carious lesion.

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While research has long shown that the sweetener xylitol offers protection against dental caries, new data demonstrate that it may raise the risk of cardiovascular events. Researchers at Charit University Hospital in Berlin, Germany, looked at the health records of 17,000 patients. Among individuals with higher blood levels of xylitol, the risk of cardiovascular events, inclu...

VOCO claims that America’s No. 1-selling 5% sodium fluoride varnish, VOCO Profluorid Varnish, just got better, announcing the launch of Profluorid Varnish + BioMin, featuring BioMin bioglass. This new advance...