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Dental news and blogs
- - DENTAL supplier 1st Dental Laboratories yesterday warned its interim results would be behind directors’ expectations but said recovery plans were in place for the second half of the year. (04/07/2008 21:03:10)
- - As a pediatric dentist, Dr. James Musser sees many cautionary tales. Dr. Megan Mayneur works on Desmond Davis, 9, at the Native American Health Center in Sacramento, which serves poor children. About 4,000 of California’s 34,000 dentists are said to offer 97% of such care.
- - Young children from low-income families experience high levels of tooth decay and face many barriers to getting dental treatment and preventive services. Because these children usually visit their pediatrician or other primary care provider far more frequently than a dentist, the primary care medical setting is gaining popularity as a place to provide preventive dental services.
- - Dental patients in Cornwall have been failed by the government’s new contract, its five MPs claim.
- - Toronto, ON, Canada – Young children from low-income families experience high levels of tooth decay and face many barriers to getting dental treatment and preventive services.
- - Though the children would rather have been swimming, their parents were thrilled recently about free dental care from Gator Kids Healthy Smiles.
- - Low maternal vitamin D levels during pregnancy may affect primary tooth calcification, leading to enamel defects, which are a risk factor for early-childhood tooth decay.
- - Washington, July 5 : A woman’s low vitamin D levels during pregnancy may affect her baby’s dental health, says a new research.
- - Dental lab products supplier 1st Dental Laboratories said revenues are 12% lower due to some business disruptions.
- - A fear of homesickness drove Vicki Smith to give a thousand hours of her time to improving the oral health of South Auckland children. Leaving Australia meant leaving everything she knew - her friends, her neighbourhood, her job.
- - A London dentist swaps the drill for a microphone after his operatic version of pop songs secured him a top record deal.
- - Thousands of low-income parents will be eligible for health coverage under Medicaid starting today, and same-sex couples will have new rights, as 189 laws take effect in Maryland.
- - Changes designed to improve NHS dental services in England have not been successful, a Commons committee report argues.
- - The shake-up of NHS dentistry has been a disaster with standards of care dropping and almost one million fewer people being treated on the health service under the new system, a damning report by MPs has found.
- - A million fewer patientsare being seen by NHS dentists, despite Tony Blair’s pledge almost a decade ago of “access for all” to an NHS dentist within two years. The damning indictment of the Government’s failure to deliver its promises on dental care is contained in a report by the Labour-dominated Commons Select Committee on Health.
- - A dentist has clinched a £1 million record deal to become the new Russell Watson.
- - Dr. Roy S. Shelburne of Virginia
Flap yesterday reported that the money laundering convictions of Virginia dentist, Dr. Roy S. Shelburne, involving Medicaid fraud had been set aside by a federal judge.
