A survey published in a supplement to the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) revealed that nine of 10 dentists offer vital tooth bleaching, one of the most popular cosmetic dental procedures to lighten the shade of teeth.
A relatively new option for patients wanting to whiten their teeth is nightguard tooth bleaching, which has been demonstrated to be safe and effective when dispensed and supervised by dentists.
While dentist-dispensed, at-home tooth bleaching is the most common tooth lightening procedure, dentists are developing new in-office procedures that may be improvements on existing bleaching methods, according to a report in a supplement to the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA).
This month's media packet focuses on a supplement to the April Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA). See following releases.
Linkage between a sudden rise in blood pressure upon awakening and potentially dangerous enlargement of the heart's main pumping chamber is established in a study in the May issue of the American Journal of Hypertension.
An international study has found a new agent that may prove useful for treating patients with an aggressive brain tumor known as anaplastic astrocytoma.
Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have found another anti-tumor drug that may prove useful in fighting lung cancer associated with smoking. The clinical trial at the Houston cancer center indicates the drug, topotecan, shows promise as a new treatment option for patients suffering from advanced non-small cell lung cancer.
Interviewing urban African Americans about their health on their own turf may be more effective than traditional telephone survey methods, a Johns Hopkins study shows.
Although positive interactions are now known to be so common that many ecologists tend to dismiss them as obvious, surprisingly little is known about their community-wide consequences, particularly how they affect species diversity.
Though U.S. physicians performed many more invasive cardiac procedures to treat elderly heart-attack patients than did Canadian physicians, the patients in the U.S. were just as likely to die within one year as those in Canada, according to a recent study by researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Canada.
Remember all those warnings about "crazy gluing" your fingers together? If a University of Michigan Medical Center doctor has his way, emergency rooms all over the United States will be using something similar in place of stitches.
If you want your medicine to work harder, you might want to pay closer attention to your breakfast menu. In a follow up to an earlier study, a University of Michigan Medical Center doctor and his colleagues have expanded research into how and why grapefruit juice helps the body absorb some medications more efficiently.
Imagine a milky white, peppermint-flavored liquid that, when added to a pool of water teeming with cholera, within minutes makes the water safe to drink. Imagine a cream that could be used like a sunscreen to protect a soldier from anthrax, botulinum, ricin and other toxins in the biological warfare arsenal. This may sound like science fiction, but these products may soon be used in humans, says University of Michigan Medical Center researcher
How do nutrients and vitamins enter living cells? National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded biochemists at the University of Oklahoma at Norman have made a dramatic advance that largely answers this question.
African-Americans with cancer can benefit greatly from participating in clinical trials, according to a report released today by key national cancer organizations.
Despite 1960s-era predictions of a color-blind society, "the blacks who are worse off have taken a giant step backward," and racism persists because "people find psychological solace in elevating themselves at the expense of others," a University of Delaware researcher says.
Don't be too quick to throw away those credit card offers that flood the daily mail, says a Purdue University business professor. "These 'affinity' or specialty cards like a Visa or Mastercard from your favorite magazine or grocery store may offer consumers low interest rates and meaningful perks."
With the lines between television news and entertainment blurring, people's beliefs in unidentified flying objects can easily be swayed by what they see on TV, says a Purdue University communication researcher.
Teens with a preference for a particular brand of cigarette or beer are using those substances more and are more likely to use them in the future, according to a study of more than 4,000 ninth- and 11th-grade students.
Treating a common foot fracture with cloth padding and elastic bandages rather than a hard fiberglass cast will significantly speed the recovery of most patients, according to a study released in the June issue of Foot and Ankle International.
A presentation revealing a correlation between smoking and delayed wound healing, and a study identifying surgical risk factors associated with complications or poor outcomes in diabetic patients will be among the highlights of the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society's (AOFAS) 13th Annual Summer Meeting at the Hyatt, Monterey, July 17th to 19th, 1997.
Arthritis of the foot and ankle affects almost half of all Americans over the age of 60. Now sufferers of arthritis may have some basic questions answered by a new brochure from the American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society (AOFAS).
Postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer treated with a new aromatase inhibitor live longer than patients treated with a commonly-used progestin, according to a report given today at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO).
Faced with declining tobacco use and new regulations in the United States, tobacco companies increasingly are focusing their attention on the global marketplace, according to experts speaking here at the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society International Conference.
New studies presented here at the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society International Conference add to the evidence that air pollution is harmful and even deadly.
Three months after the National Institutes of Health (NIH) released updated asthma treatment guidelines, new research presented here at the American Lung Association/American Thoracic Society International Conference indicates that many asthma patients are not following treatment recommendations from an earlier 1991 report. But one new study shows that when patients with asthma follow the recommended guidelines, their asthma improves and hospital visits dramatically decrease.
A new study indicates that recent U.S. hurricane damages do not reflect any unusual increase in hurricane strength or frequency, but rather a continued flocking of Americans to vulnerable coastal locations. The shift could spell trouble if more hurricanes make landfall in coming years, as they did before 1970.
UC Santa Cruz has formally created its Jack Baskin School of Engineering, launched with a $5 million philanthropic gift. The school is expected to play an important role in training future Silicon Valley engineers.
The biodiversity of nearshore marine ecosystems in Monterey Bay has flourished over the last 25 years despite increasingly heavy human impacts, according to marine biologists at UC Santa Cruz.
As American engineers and scientists gather today in Moscow for a meeting comparing power plants in the United States and Russia, what many of them know will likely shatter long-standing assumptions in the Western world.
Scientists specializing in how hormones affect the brain and behavior will discuss recent findings during a first-of-its-kind week-long meeting beginning May 27 in Baltimore.
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has made grants to 35 research institutions across the United States that will allow them to connect to NSFÃs very high speed Backbone Network Service (vBNS), an extremely sophisticated telecommunications system that enables scientists across the continent to share powerful computing resources.
A summer program is helping minority students make their way into the business environment where 90 percent of U.S. managers are currently white. Now in its 17th year of operation, the Leadership Education and Development program, or LEAD, will soon begin teaching high school minority students how to become America's future executives.
Colleges and universities measure loyalty by alumni giving. Using that yardstick, alumni of the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College are the most faithful of the nation's graduate business school degree recipients.
Researchers say that their findings in a 1978 landmark National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded study of risky behavior still holds true nearly two decades later -- most people are reluctant to purchase insurance against natural disasters because they believe such events will not happen to them.
Weeds can be more than just a backyard nuisance, according to a University of Massachusetts biologist who will produce a documentary film on the topic.
Within the past ten years a revolution in surgery has been taking place, as procedures have become less and less invasive. Now doctors at the Boston Medical Center are at the forefront of this revolution, pioneering minimally invasive techniques on the body s most vital organ: the heart.
Psychiatric Annual Meeting -- Mon. 5/19 Highlights: 1- factors predisposing to onset of PTSD; 2- should psychiatrists participate in competency exams of criminals about to be executed?; 3- research advncs in major depressive disorders; 4- thnicity, aging, & mntl hlth; psychiatry & welfare & economic policies; 5- HIV & Hispanics; 6- work stress; 7- homeless mentally ill & sexually risky behavior; 8- multiculturalism in health assessment; 9- anatomy of prejudices; 10- clinical spectrum of ADHD i
Physicians reporting at recent medical meetings describe how the Digital Holographyô System from Voxel is helping them diagnose and treat complex spinal and cranial anomalies.
Constant exposure to second-hand smoke -- in the workplace or at home -- nearly doubles the risk of having a heart attack, a landmark study of more than 32,000 women suggests.
1- Ranking Soldier Flies; 2- How Chemicals Seep into the Aquifer; 3- Hairy Vetch Mulch System Moves to Poland; 4- Piglets, Pituitaries and Chilly Temperatures; 5- Research Counterattack Against New Sorghum Fungus
While the American Cancer Society recommends annual mammograms for women beginning at age 40, is there an upper age limit when mammograms are not necessary? A new study completed by Masonic Geriatric Healthcare Center, CT, says, due to a number of factors, the value of mammography screening for women aged 75 plus is limited.
University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) researcher Chandra Belani, M.D., announced today that his novel treatment using combination chemoradiation for regionally advanced, surgically unremovable Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) appears promising and could lead to the development of a new standard of care for this disease. The treatment uses TAXOL (paclitaxel) and PARAPLATIN (carboplatin for injection), in conjunction with thoracic radiotherapy.
A unique safety device, developed by a Michigan State University engineer, will be worn by an Indianapolis 500 driver this year -- the first time the device has been used in the Memorial Day race. The device, known as HANS -- head and neck support -- is a combination helmet and yoke that supports a driver's head, helps reduce neck fatigue and avoid the accompanying injuries common among drivers.
It will never work. That's what top geneticists told Dr. David Cox when, more than a decade ago, he explained his scheme for simply and rapidly creating a map charting thousands of signposts along the DNA strands that make up humans' genetic inheritance -- the human genome.
Stanford researchers have found an unexpected target site that could be used to starve or poison the parasites that cause malaria.
Stanford investigators have succeeded in reforming delinquent immune cells that have turned against the body they are meant to protect. The researchers forced the misbehaving cells to carry the blueprint for a gene that squelches the destructive response. The researchers showed that mice destined to have an autoimmune disease benefit significantly from this treatment.
Researchers have discovered a new eating disorder in which some patients with right anterior brain lesions suddenly become compulsively addicted to thinking about and eating fine foods. Called Gourmand syndrome, the new disorder is presented in the May issue of the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal, Neurology.
Medical professionals and patients are not being informed or warned about the serious dangers associated with a migraine drug, according to an article published in the May issue of the American Academy of Neurology's scientific journal, Neurology.
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