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The news item has been everywhere....dentists are seeing an increase in severe bruxing caused by the stress of the down economy. A Dubuque Iowa dentist is no excpetion. "When I began practicing dentistry in the mid-1970s," said Dr. William Kuttler, "the vast majority of people with teeth-grinding injuries were men who lived on farms. They would be riding around on a tractor all day, with grit getting in their mouth and clenching their teeth. Now, the farmers are riding in air-conditioned cabs and the bruxers coming in with jaw problems are Type-A business people." Dr Kuttler and his wife (and hygienist) Sharon, have teamed up with Sharon's yoga instructor to offer a seminar on on relieving dental stress. They'll use the breathing, alignment, and body awareness components of yoga to reduce or eliminate grinding behavior and its consequent problems. I'll be asking them how it went after the seminar. Stay tuned.
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Evidence continues to grow supporting the value of salivary diagnosics. Just read about this…..There may soon be a new weapon in the battle against the so-called "worst" cancer - cancer of the pancreas. A multidisciplinary group of UCLA investigators demonstrated the usefulness of salivary diagnostics in the effort to find and fight the disease. Changes in the molecular signatures found in human saliva have been successfully linked to the presence of early-stage pancreatic cancer in a study. Results were published in a recent issue of the journal Gastroenterology (one of my must reads!) and are available online If this news has peaked your interest in the value of saliva, check out OralDNA Labs and their three offerings. They’re especially timely in light of the quest to cut health care costs, detect disease at it earliest stages, keep intervention to a minimum, and accurately assess risk for certain conditions. The company offers three simple-to-administer non-invasive saliva tests: MyPerioPath (detects bacteria associated with perio disease), MyPerio ID PST (assesses genetic risk for perio disease), and OraRisk HPV (detects oral human papilloma virus and profiles risk for each type). This type of lab testing is the wave of the future for dentistry…..it's here now.
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Tuesday, September 09, 2008
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