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Researchers from Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and University Hospitals Case Medical Center report initial results from a small sample that inflammation from gum disease and prostate problems just might be linked. They discuss their new evidence in the Journal of Periodontology. The researchers compared two markers: the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) used to measure inflammation levels in prostate disease, and clinical attachment loss (CAL) of the gums and teeth, which can be an indicator for periodontitis.
A PSA elevation of 4.0 ng/ml in the blood can be a sign of inflammation or malignancy. Patients with healthy prostate glands have lower than 4.0 ng/ml levels. A CAL number greater than 2.7 mm indicates periodontitis.
Like prostatitis, periodontitis also produces high inflammation levels.
"Subjects with both high CAL levels and moderate to severe prostatitis have higher levels of PSA or inflammation," stated Nabil Bissada, chair of the department of periodontics in the dental school. Bissada added that this might explain why PSA levels can be high in prostatitis, but sometimes cannot be explained by what is happening in the prostate glands. "It is something outside the prostate gland that is causing an inflammatory reaction," he said.
Because periodontitis has been linked to heart disease, diabetes and rheumatoid arthritis, the researchers felt a link might exist to prostate disease.
Looking at the results, the researchers from the dental school and the department of urology and the Institute of Pathology at the hospital found those with the most severe form of the prostatitis also showed signs for periodontitis.
This research serves as another reminder of the link between oral disease and overall medical health. Comments are appreciated?
Source: Science Daily
Journal Reference:
- Joshi et al. Association Between Periodontal Disease and Prostate Specific Antigen Levels in Chronic Prostatitis Patients. Journal of Periodontology, 2010; 100409084221025 DOI: 10.1902/jop.2010.090646
Most of our patients want their face to be esthetically pleasing. This is almost always an issue while doing procedures on a patients teeth. In fact, many times a patient, no matter how severe the pain may be, is driven by the bottom line of esthetics. Of course, if you deliver that and satisfy the patient, they will come see you again!
This article approaches a way of treating patients with dental procedures that actually changes the entire facial structure! Think of an elderly patient who has lost most of their teeth. The face becomes sunken in and cheek tissue are appear to be lost. In the same way, reconstruction can change a face and in fact make a patient look younger. THAT is a factor in which will always bring a patient back into your office in this day in age.
to dental services and products.”
Warschaw developed and launched the Dental Management Club after seeing the need for a site that not only offered online training, but also a much broader set of services, benefits, and professional networking opportunities. She has been the driving force behind the Warschaw Learning Institute, an industry leader in
online training for dental professionals and military spouses, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary.
The Dental Management Club offers a full set of online tools, training, seminars, career coaching and mentoring services, employment resources, forums, and product discounts tailored to meet the needs of dentists, hygienists, students, receptionists, human resource managers, insurance administrators, dental
assistants, and office managers. In addition to its online offerings, the Dental Management Club will hold seminars across the country in small-to-medium sized metropolitan areas; places often underserved in terms of continuing dental education.
“These seminars will offer valuable, proven tips and advice on the types of issues that can be most challenging for dental teams, such as patient retention and collections,” says Warschaw. “And each will be tailored to the local area, addressing their special concerns and drawing upon the untapped local talent pool of job seekers.”
For more information, or to join the Dental Management Club, go to www.dentalmanagementclub.com.
In the name of Oral Cancer Month, let us all please pay more attention to our exams.
This is where dentistry becomes "gray" perhaps. We focus on the patient and oral cavity, particularly the teeth. At times, especially in Pediatrics, we may tend to overlook lesions and/or other signs of early stages of oral cancer. We can be at the forefront of early detection if we all take notice! Once again, our profession is profound and the mouth/body connection is amazing!
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Please update your information and we welcome any input that you might have. Test out the Online Appointment Booking System with your staff members for we are going to drive a lot of patient traffic into your Dental Offices. So, put your thinking caps on and help us design the features that you like to see and use in the Real Time Online Appointment Booking System (with Mobile Application Capabilities too).
Please send in any queries and problems that you might encounter along the way when navigating the site. It is Beta Testing time! Have Fun, guys!
PS. send email to info@designsmile.com
Thanks,
EJ Koh
Academy of Oral Implantology (India) is going to hold its 4th InternationalCongress from the 21st to 23rd May-2010 at HotelLalit, New Delhi, India.
Besides the continuing education benefits in Dental Implantology and thetrade-fair it also provides with an opportunity to meet up with eachother and create new friends. It also carries 15 CDE points as per the Dental Council of Indiaguidelines.
This conference has been supported by many major Indian dental schoolsand organizations and promises to be the largest meeting of its kind in India with an expected attendance of more than 500 delegates.
I have been requested by the organizing committee of AOI, to help spreadthe word around so if anyone is interested in attending, please let meknow and I shall forward details of the congress and payment etc.
More details are also available at www.aoi-india.org
With best wishes,
Dr Arun Grover
Delhi, India
Launching www.designsmile.com for Beta Testing tomorrow.
We came up with a very neat idea to drive patient traffic to the dental office with an Real Time Q&A and Online Appointment Booking System. We need some real beta testers and who can test it better than the dentists users themselves? Let me know what you think of the idea. It is just a beta set up for now, so nothing is concrete yet until we get feedbacks from actual users. Please make suggestions from the practical side of the booking procedures. What are the features that you like to have in place so that the patients from your area can actually get booked into your dental office. Through the surveys, we are going to tailor make the features to suit your requirements. For this weekend, if you have some time, please check it out at www.designsmile.com/beta . Beta testing starts on Monday (tomorrow!). Thanks in advance!
Since probing was WNL, surgical endodontic tx is an option.
During surgery, a large lateral canal was visible in the surgical window. The lateral canal was ultrasonically prepped and sealed with MTA cement. 6-month recall shows bone regeneration.
Launching of www.designsmile.com this coming Friday!
We are launching a Dental Platform this coming Friday. It is called www.designsmile.com and we like you help us to beta test it. We would actually drive patients to the dental office with a real time Online Booking engine. It is pretty neat, you will enjoy it. Thanks in advance.
Koh from the Designsmile Team
Koh from the Designsmile Team
I added this topic as it seems to come up in my clinical procedures often. One doc I work for has been a DDS for over 30 years now and still the one-step (etching + bonding) approach is stressed to him each time our sales rep. comes in !
The point being that we have tried many ! But still, ecthing and bonding still holds true in our clinical experience as a two-step application. I am wondering if you experience the same in your office?
The study appeared online in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
"One of the key discoveries in this paper is to show that the miniaturized, noninvasive approach produces about the same result as the pathologists do," said John McDevitt, the Brown-Wiess Professor of Chemistry and Bioengineering at Rice. His lab developed the novel nano-bio-chip technology at the university's BioScience Research Collaborative. The future is with nano-bio-chips -- small, semiconductor-based devices that combine the ability to capture, stain and analyze biomarkers for a variety of health woes that also include cardiac disease, HIV and trauma injuries. Researchers hope the eventual deployment of nano-bio-chips will dramatically cut the cost of medical diagnostics and contribute significantly to the task of bringing quality health care to the world.
This is an interesting development and technology that could have a major impact on the way we evaluate and screen for oral pathology. Check it out. Your thoughts and comments are appreciated.
Source: Science Daily
Photo credit: University of Texas
Open Discussion Forum / Q&A
Thursday 13 May, 2010
at the CAD/CAM & Computerized Dentistry Int’l Conference 13-14 May 2010, Dubai UAE
Researchers, Clinicians, Manufacturers will answer all your questions.
Post your questions here or visit:
http://www.cappmea.com/cadcam4/pages/zirconia.htm
The aim of this Open forum is to evaluate the effect of different surface treatment methods and in particular the effect of
the quality of “fake” CAD/CAM zirconia blocks on the market, the flexure strength
of zirconia frameworks, proper preparation and proper bonding.
Delegates will interact with the panel participant (all on stage) and post their questions and comments. They will have the answers from
the researchers’, clinical and industry point of view.
AGENDA:
1. Truth of the product? 10 min – research presentation.
2. Truth of the preparation? 10 min – clinical presentation.
3. Truth of the result? 10 min – manufacturer presentation.
Q/A interactive session following the above topics with equally active
participation.
PANEL PARTICIPANTS: Dr. Nadim Aboujaoude, Lebanon; Dr. Andreas Kurbad, Germany; Dr. Peter
Gehrke, Germany; Dr. Atef Shaker,
Egypt; Ralph
Riquier, Germany; Dr. Ilan Preiss, UK
MODERATOR: Dr. Munir Silwadi
This is of course particularly of importance now. It seems to be good news! What's your view???
The new healthcare reform bill will "appreciate" dental education toward the public and one of the main focus' being on children. This is such a proactive measure. Children need good hygiene habits early on and can carry it through generations thereafter. Educating the public is also key and should be rewarded. Reaching out to the public should always be a high priority.
Of course the flip side is that their are insurance capping issues that has some worried. Like many other congressional bills, there is still much to work out. Either way the bill would "change dentistry forever".
I am happy to say that the time I do spend in the dental office since cutting back, is spent speaking to school classes and even pre-schoolers! I enjoy it and it feels good to be hands on and stepping into the educational side of dentistry. In turn, if the children have a good experience outside of the dental office , they will be more inclined to go home and tell their parents...thus perhaps reminding the adult that dental care is crucial.
I am so impressed with the focus on medical inclusion with Web Dental.
Thanks,
Christine Taxin
ctaxin@links2success.biz
This is of interest in todays society. More people are overweight and unhealthy than ever, hence my wellness business as a branch of dentistry I suppose ! This article states a study providing this point. You know that there are many risks with being overweight, but some may not know that gum disease is one of them.
This article points to the inflammatory chemicals secreted by fatty tissue. This leads to increased production of cytokines, promoting periodontal disease. Very interesting how the body WARNS you in many ways that being overweight is not good for our health! I would be interested to know if you all have noticed this in your patients? Or have you made the link ?
This article (complete article link to Medical News) is really amazing to me, particularly as a woman. In fact, I hear many women tell me that their dental maintenance declined during pregnancy, and even afterwards. In this respect, the importance of oral care is profound. This article provides an eye-opening, perhaps surprising, fact of that point exactly.
I know personally I am more aware of oral care and keeping dental recall appointments during the time I will be pregnant. I value this information and the study mentioned in the article. If more women knew of this periodontal link to pre-term birth, they would take note. Again, it is amazing that we are in such a revolutionary field !
chairside CAD CAM system has been around for nearly 25 years, it
hasn't been until the new generations of systems (E4D Dentist System, CEREC
AC Bluecam) that the true potential and ease of use have been realized for
the clinician and dental assistant. Creating metal-free restorations with
no compromise in form, fit and function in a single appointment or even two
appointments provides every dental professional and dental practice
incredible benefits. I use the E4D Dentist system in my practice for a
variety of indications selecting from a variety of high strength ceramic
materials (IPS Empress, IPS e.max CAD) to provide my patients with unequaled
service and convenience. Patients are amazed at the change in dentistry
that is taking place and no longer dread the long temporary phase or making
another appointment weeks from the first.
Once you have become confident in your use of the technology and proficiency
in the system, you can offer your patients beautiful restorations on
anterior and posterior teeth. Taking time to custom stain and glaze can provide
the results shown here in as little as 2 hours.
If you haven't looked at chairside CAD CAM dentistry firsthand in the last
few months you haven't looked at chairside CAD CAM dentistry. Do yourself,
your patients and your bottom line a favor and check them out. It isn't a
matter of if you will incoporate it but simply when.
James M. Stein D.M.D.
