Personalized Dentistry

Expanding the foundation for personalized medicine: implications and challenges for dentistry.

Personalized medicine aims to individualize care based on a person's unique genetic, environmental, and clinical profile. Dentists and physicians have long recognized variations between and among patients, and have customized care based on each individual's health history, environment, and behavior. However, the sequencing of the human genome in 2003 and breakthroughs in regenerative medicine, ...

Cosmetic dentistry is still dentistry.

Conservative Dentistry

ummary: Intermittent methohexitone for conservative dentistry has been shown to cause clinically undetectable respiratory obstruction, depression of the laryngeal reflex, and arterial hypoxaemia. Because of the pronounced decrease in total peripheral resistance, the blood pressure was maintained only by large increases in cardiac output. Furthermore, the output of the heart could not increase w...

cryosurgery in dentistry

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Laser Dentistry

I NTRODUCT ION The Er:YAG laser, emitting at 2940 nm, can be a valuable tool for root canal debridement and improved pathogen reduction during endodontic treatment. The ability to successfully negotiate and remove the smear layer and bacteria continues to be a challenge for nonsurgical endodontic treatment in root canal systems. Current instrumentation techniques use both hand and ultrasonic ir...