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This comprehensive work for dental practitioners and hygienists shows how to maintain successfully the dental health of those patients who have periodontal diseases. It also describes in detail maintenance care in other areas of dentistry and their inter-relationship with periodontics. ... Read more

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A precise predictability of the results of a disease is profound and crucial for proper treatment planning. Since the understanding of periodontal disease has progressed to include the influence of risk factors, assigning a prognosis has become more perplexing to the clinician. Various factors that influence the overall and individual tooth prognosis have been enumerated, as well as the classification systems required to assign a prognosis has also been included. An experienced clinician should analyse all these factors, along with the patients attitude towards dental therapy, prior to arriving at a judgement for a single tooth or teeth. With newer trends in treatment modalities, patients can seek better options for treatment, thus improving the long term prognosis. This book highlights a detailed overview related to devising a periodontal prognosis. ... Read more

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This part of ISO 13397 specifies the designs and dimensions for Gr-type periodontal curettes. This title may contain less than 24 pages of technical content. ... Read more

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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Science” is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.

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This digital document is an article from Journal of Dental Hygiene, published by American Dental Hygienists' Association on June 22, 2008. The length of the article is 1472 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

From the author: Conclusion. The results of the trial failed to demonstrate any apparent advantage of using an Er:YAG laser for subgingival debridement, except less treatment discomfort perceived by the patients.

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Title: Short-term clinical and microbiologic effects of pocket debridement with an Er:YAG laser during periodontal maintenance.(Report)
Author: C. Tomasi
Publication: Journal of Dental Hygiene (Magazine/Journal)
Date: June 22, 2008
Publisher: American Dental Hygienists' Association
Volume: 82Issue: 3-4Page: NA

Article Type: Report

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Beginning with an overview of the tissue and its characteristics, the text covers the development of the periodontal ligament, its cellular structure, biochemistry and biophysics, vasculature, innervation and physiological responses to tooth movement and other forces, as applied in orthodontic treatment. Subsequent sections cover: infectious diseases; trauma; neoplasia and cysts; hormonal and nutritional/metabolic disorders; and diseases of the blood and lymphatic system. ... Read more

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Univ. of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Explains the principles for the clinical use of enamel matrix derivative (EMD). Provides the step-by-step process in EMD regenerative surgical treatment. Discusses the biologic concepts, presurgical evaluation, patient selection, treatment outcome, and more. DNLM: Dental Enamel Proteins--therapeutic use. ... Read more

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The Roots of Disease: Connecting Dentistry and Medicine represents the collaborative efforts of a dental surgeon, Dr. Robert Kulacz, and a cardiologist, Dr. Thomas Levy. For almost a decade now, these two health care professionals have had the opportunity ... Read more

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Public Health Crisis
All root canal-treated teeth are toxic, says the author. There are no exceptions. There will probably never be an effective way to disinfect dentin tubules. Extraction is the only remedy, plussurgical debridement of the socket to remove all infected bone. Otherwise,jaw cavitation--gangrene of the jaw--may occur. Shocking? Yes, of course, but facts must be faced. Cavitations are common, says the author, and very toxic.Panoramic X-rays can sometimes find them, but cannot rule them out.Ultrasound can find them better.

The author once did dental implants, but now warns against them. They can cause serious problems, however well done. Better to avoid them entirely. Although titanium is relatively bio-compatible, it requires alloys that might not be.

This book is technical, but understandable to intelligent lay readers. It is must reading for any dentist tired of saving the tooth but losing the patient. Dental toxicityis a public health crisis and the dental establishment needs to get with the program or get out of the way. Enough of unnecessary suffering!

Correlation is not causality
Yes, there is a CORRELATION between periodontal and cardiac disease.That doesn't mean that one causes the other.Does eating ice cream make people wear shorts?Because when people are eating ice cream, they also tend to be wearing shorts more often.Or could it be that there's some THIRD FACTOR that causes both????Could it just be that, now I'm about to suggest something radical, but could it be that people who tend to neglect their health tend to have both periodontal and cardiac disease, and THAT's why they correlate?Think about.Don't go making stupid assumptions.Correlation is not causality.

Who would of guessed?
Who would have ever guessed that dental disease could have such a signifigant part in so many illnesses? For far to long denistry and the rest of medicine have been totally seperate fields. What is going on in your mouth is seen as having little relavance to the disease conditions going on the in the rest of the body. For to long dental school training has focused on saving your teeth at any cost.

"The Roots of Disease: Connecting Denistry andMedicine" was written by two men. One of these men is a dentist and the other a cadiologist. For over a decade these two health care professionals have witnessed that the removal and complete healing of infected dental sites can often result in the total healing (or at least vast improvement) of other diseases in the body.

Have you ever been told that root canals harbor bacteria that infect the rest of your body causing diseae? That this is also true of sites where wisdom teeth have been improperly removed? I wasn't able to regain my health until my dental issues were dealt with. I no longer have a stressed out immune system and the constant candida albicans that this reulted in.

This well written, thorough look at the health problems affeted by oral infection is a must read for anyone interested in obtaining optimal health.

Breaking with dentistry's omerta
Tom Levy graduated from Johns Hopkins University, studied and taught medicine at Tulane, and then, to paraphrase his words, actually began to think about what he was doing.

Most people do not understand that there are hardly any fields of medicine in which the best in the field don't believe things could be done a lot better, but run into institutional resistance which they can't overcome.Nor is this phenomenon limited to medicine.

In this book, written together with Dr. Kulacz, a former instructor at NYU, they critique dentistry, and expose how antiquated and indeed antediluvian practices CAN cause much sickness.Not every root canal causes harm, but not every apparently healthy root canal is harmless.This is nothing new; it was known in Germany more than 40 years ago.When I brought this book to the attention of my dentist, a great dentist in his own right, he was very grateful for the ideas in it, and agreed that Levy and Kulacz's contention that painkillers that contain noradrenalin retard wound healing, and that you have to manually curette (scrape) out the mess under bad root canals made absolute sense.(Using a drill produces sufficient heat to kill more bone, which results in more rot.)

That these claims are controversial is self-evident, and either suggests that they are wrong or that others do wish to acknowledge their findings.To my mind, Drs. Levy and Kulacz are every bit as much heros as the men on the first wave onto the Normandy Beaches on D-Day.

Anyone with an inordinate interest in critiques of dental science - small crowd that we may be - does well to purchase this book.

Thank God for this book!
Thank God for this book and Dr.Kulacz! A M.D. from the Cleveland Clinic told me about Dr.Kulacz and this book. When reading this book about some of the other patients I thought I was reading about myself. This book is as truthful as it gets about root canals , dental materials and proper procedures about extractions. This book is a must read for the people that suspect that their teeth may be one of the culprits to their health issues. Of course after reading this book I would think most sensible people would not take drastic action as to extract their own teeth ,as one person posted. I would love to stand outside of every dentist office and pass out this book to patients that are about to get a root canal. This book opens your eyes to the other side of root canals that your dentist will not tell you before the procedure. By the way your natural teeth are not better if they are giving you pain and lowering your immune system. You must read this book if you are searching for the truth about your teeth problems. Dr.Kulacz has integrity and morals which is what you would expect from any doctor. If I could I would rate this book higher than a five. ... Read more

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Practical Periodontal Plastic Surgery provides the qualified and trainee periodontist with a pragmatic approach to mucogingival plastic surgery, imparting knowledge and expertise through its step-by-step examination of the actual clinical requirements of each procedure. The book focuses on the increasingly requested esthetic procedures such as crown lengthening and root coverage, but it also deals with other mucogingival operations, such as hard and soft pre-prosthetic and pre-implant ridge augmentation. Uniquely, there is also a focus on the burgeoning field of periodontal microsurgery, and the techniques and methods learned from other branches of microsurgery are applied to realities of dentistry, for enhanced soft tissue results. ... Read more

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Very Practical
I found this humble looking book very useful. The procedures are well described in the text, even though many of the pictures are self explanatory. Those who are dedicated to oral, periodontal or implant surgery will findsimple ways to enhance the outcome of your treatments. It also has a second part, Advanced Periodontal Plastic Surgery which is excellent.

Practical Periodontal Plastic Surgery
Photos are excellent. I have done some of these proceedures for the first time after study of this book. ... Read more

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Translation of the Japanese text, Shishu Geka no Rinsho to Tekunikku, c1997. Atlas illustrates treatment through case-by-case study. Abundantly illustrated with full-color photographs and drawings. Demonstrates how regenerative procedures combined with periodontal surgery techniques, can achieve a successful clinical outcome. DNLM: Periodontics--methods--Atlases. ... Read more

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Periodontal Surgery: A Clinical Atlas
The volume arrived in perfect condition. The large and well-spaced format promised clear illustration and sequencing of procedures, which was mostly,but not always, the case. A number of procedures had quite complex suturing involved, which was only shown when completed, not during the suturing, and this I found quite a let down.
Overall, the Atlas describes, with the aid of great photographs, a variety of periodontal surgical procedures, but does not always provide the desired detail in all aspects of the procedure. ... Read more

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New edition of an elementary booklet for patients explaining periodontal disease. Large, full-color three-dimensional drawings. Previous 1982 edition titled 'What is Periodontal Disease?'. ... Read more