Dental Health Week, which takes place in the first full week of August, is the Australian Dental Association’s major annual oral health promotion event. Its aim is to educate Australians about the importance of maintaining good oral health by promoting the following key health messages:
If you’re a dentist, you have made an amazing choice for a life’s calling. Dental practices all around the world are growing and some are even becoming world-famous, so starting your own dental practice might just be the best decision you’ve ever made. However, starting and successfully running a dental practice is not without its challenges.
To spend your days up to your elbows in other people’s oral cavities is tough enough.
But now, dentists and their anxious patients could see a transformation in dentistry, thanks to pioneering research by a Queensland University of Technology-led team, which aims to take away some of the pain using a new superglue and the power of light.
Water fluoridation prevents dental decay in US children and adolescents a recent US study has found.
The study—which was published last month in the Journal of Dental Research—merged county-level estimates of the percentage of the population with community water fluoridation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Water Fluoridation Reporting System with dental examination data from 10 years of National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (1999-2004 and 2011-2014).
The rate of edentulism – loss of all natural teeth – varies with age, but according to 2015 Australian Government survey data, the issue affects 19.1 percent of Australians over the age of 65, compared to just 3.2 percent of those aged 45-64.
For the many older Australians affected by tooth loss, a spokesperson for experts in dental work,