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Dental Receptionist Jailed for stealing credit card info

A DENTAL receptionist who defrauded patients of almost £20,000 was jailed for a year yesterday.
Adele Ballantyne copied details from patients' credit cards and files and passed them on to her stepfather, John Hill.

Hill was jailed for two years for his part in the scheme which involved him ordering goods using the details and selling them on, Glasgow Sheriff Court heard.

Their co-accused, Patrice Massey, was ordered to carry out 300 hours community service for receiving delivery of the goods – mainly industrial catering equipment – at her home in Clydebank. More HERE

Mischievous Dental College of Bihar pays compensation to students after 15 year legal Battle

New Delhi: Students aggrieved at misleading advertisements, given by unrecognised educational institutions that their courses are recognised, are entitled to refund of fees and compensation, the Supreme Court has held. Students misled by educational institutes on affiliation and recognition awarded to their courses can drag them to consumer courts, the Supreme Court has said. Bhupesh Khurana and 10 others joined this college in Bihar during 1992-93 paying a huge capitation fee. The court directed the college to pay a total compensation of Rs. 22 lakh, in addition to refund of fees and a Rs. 30,000-penalty imposed by the Commission. Dismissing with costs the appeal filed by the college against this order, the Bench pointed out that its wrong claim that it was affiliated to Magadh University and its BDS course was recognised by the Dental Council of India amounted to deficiency in service under the CP Act.

Implant compression necrosis: Current understanding and case report
JOP Jan 2009

Implants fail for a variety of reasons, although it is sometimes difficult to determine the exact cause of failure. This is especially confusing if multiple factors are contributing to the failure. Overcompression of the adjacent bone during implant placement is a potential contributing factor to implant failure that is not well-documented in the literature.
Methods: This case report reviews the concept of bone loss induced by overcompression and presents a case of implant failure with overcompression as a potential etiology. Histology, radiographs, and clinical data are presented that document the failure of 4 implants placed in the posterior mandible of a 48-year-old female patient.
Results: After uneventful implant placement, one implant exfoliated 3 weeks post-operatively. The other 3 implants were subsequently removed due to severe bone loss up to 2 months later. Histology of the area revealed nonviable bony sequestra with bacterial colonization.
Conclusions: This case highlights unusual implant failures that likely occurred due to overcompression of the bone during placement. Situations involving dense bone appear to be at increased risk for compression necrosis.

Tooth decay now the 'THIRD most common reason children are admitted to hospital'

More than 36,000 children are admitted to hospital with tooth decay each year and the number is rising, new figures have revealed.

It is now the third most common reason children are admitted to hospital after a rise of 13 per cent over five years, the data obtained by the Conservatives shows.

But Labour's Health Minister Ben Bradshaw accused the Tories of distorting the statistics.

He said the increase was a result of the introduction of a ban on dentists carrying out general anaesthetics, which came into force in 2001. More HERE

Pigmentation susceptibility of teeth after bleaching with 2 systems: An in vitro study
Quintessence International January 2009

Objective: To determine the susceptibility of teeth to darken after bleaching with 35% hydrogen peroxide and 16% carbamide peroxide.
Method and Materials: Thirty-eight premolars were covered with varnish and the mesiobuccal facets polished up to 0.04 µm, leaving a flat surface. Thirty-six of these premolars were then randomly assigned to 3 groups and the shade of the polished surfaces recorded using a Vita shade guide set in a value disposition. According to the manufacturers’ instructions, 12 samples were bleached with 35% hydrogen peroxide (in-office group) and 12 samples with 16% carbamide peroxide (at-home group). The 12 samples in the control group were not bleached. Two days later, the shades of the bleached teeth were recorded; all samples were immersed in silver nitrate 50% for 4 hours, rinsed, and fixed (using a dithioxamide solution) for 24 hours. Polished surfaces were cleaned and the samples’ shade recorded and analyzed using ANOVA. The remaining 2 premolars were bleached the same as those in the test group and analyzed using atomic force microscopy.
Results: The mean shade values were 6.2, 3.7, and 10.9 for in-office samples; 8.8, 1.7, and 6.1 for at-home samples; and 7.8 and 9.4 for the control group. After pigmentation, the at-home group had a lighter shade than the in-office group (P ≤ .001). Atomic force microscopy showed no significant surface differences.
Conclusion: While all the samples were susceptible to pigmentation, this tendency was greater following application of 35% hydrogen peroxide.

Protaper Efficiency in Retreatment- Gutta percha removal
IEJ Feb 2009

Aim :To compare the efficacy of conventional and new retreatment instruments when removing gutta-percha root fillings in curved root canals.

Methodology :A total of 56 curved molar roots were instrumented with ProFile instruments and filled using system B and Obtura II. The root fillings were removed with manual K-files and Hedström files (Dentsply Maillefer), ProFile (Dentsply Maillefer), R-Endo (Micro–Mega) or ProTaper Universal retreatment files (Dentsply Maillefer). Eucalyptol was used as a solvent with all techniques. Bucco-lingual and proximal radiographs of the roots were exposed and the percentage area of the remaining material was calculated by dividing the area of remaining filling material by the area of canal wall. Data were statistically analysed with Kruskal–Wallis and Mann–Whitney U tests (P = 0.05).

Results :None of the techniques completely removed the root filling materials. No significant differences were found amongst the coronal, middle and apical thirds in both radiographic projections (P > 0.05). In the bucco-lingual direction, the remaining filling material was significantly less following manual instrumentation than R-Endo and ProTaper instrumentation
Conclusions :In this laboratory study in curved molar roots, ProTaper Retreatment and R-Endo instruments were less effective in removing filling material from canal walls than manual and ProFile instruments.

3 million get their teeth into DIY dentistry (Do It Yourself)
Around 3 million people have resorted to DIY dentistry, with a further 3 million knowing someone else that has, according to new research* by Which?

[UKPRwire, Tue Feb 17 2009] People would rather check their bank balance, go to the gym or face a packed Ikea on a Saturday afternoon instead of going to the dentist so it’s easy to see why so many people are having a crack at it themselves.

Of those trying DIY dentistry, 26 per cent have tried to pull a tooth using pliers and 12 per cent have tried doing this using a piece of string tied to a door handle. Three in ten DIY dentists (30 per cent) have tried to whiten their teeth with household cleaning products.

Other DIY procedures people admitted to include using household glue to stick down a filling or crown (11 per cent), popping an ulcer with a pin (19 per cent) trying to mend or alter dentures (8 per cent) and trying to stick down a loose filling with chewing gum (6 per cent).

The research comes as Which? launches a campaign** (http://www.which.co.uk/dentistry )to find out what the real problems are with dentistry today. The consumer champion is calling on people to share their stories – good or bad – about their dental treatment. More HERE

Attention Medical Professionals :Periodontal disease – another cardiovascular risk factor to consider?Mark DavisBr J Cardiol 2009;16:11–12.

General practitioners (GPs) have become used to asking their patients fairly detailed questions about the traditional risk factors, such as smoking habits, and measuring blood pressure, cholesterol and glucose to allow cardiovascular risk to be calculated. However, few would dream of including an oral examination within an assessment of global cardiovascular risk. Oral health has been viewed as the domain of dentists and has not troubled physicians when considering the prevention and management of cardiovascular disease. Physicians should encourage patients with poor oral health to visit their dentist. Full Paper

Indoor plants boost your Health

ScienceDaily (Feb. 20, 2009) — The toxic gas formaldehyde is contained in building materials including carpeting, curtains, plywood, and adhesives. As it is emitted from these sources, it deteriorates the air quality, which can lead to "multiple chemical sensitivity" and "sick building syndrome", medical conditions with symptoms such as allergies, asthma, and headaches. The prevalence of formaldehyde and other volatile organic compounds (VOC) is greater in new construction. Full Story