Saving patients by pulling their teeth out - but killing them softly afterwards with dental implants?

Killing Them Slowly But Not Softly in the Film and Television Industry

Microflora around teeth and dental implants

BACKGROUND When an implant is exposed to oral cavity, its surface gets colonized by micro-organisms. The aim of this study is to comparatively assess the microbiological parameters in sulci around the teeth and the crowns supported by dental implants. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this prospective, cross-sectional study, 34 partially edentulous patients aged between 40 and 50 years with total 50 a...

Pulling teeth from history

M olecular biology has made considerable contributions to the study of human history from the earliest days of our species, when our ancestors began to walk on the savannah, to the dawn of civilization and the more recent history of mankind. The analysis of contemporary mitochondrial DNA, for example, has told us that Homo sapiens first appeared in Africa; the sequencing of the Neanderthal geno...

Killing them softly: managing pathogen polymorphism and virulence in spatially variable environments

Understanding why pathogen populations are genetically variable is vital because genetic variation fuels evolution, which often hampers disease control efforts. Here I argue that classical models of evolution in spatially variable environments - specifically, models of hard and soft selection - provide a useful framework to understand the maintenance of pathogen polymorphism and the evolution o...

Killing me softly: myth in pharmaceutical advertising.

Although the influence of research onmedical practice has become a key concern, the influence of pharmaceutical advertising in medical journals has received little attention. There is evidence that advertising influences doctors’ behaviour more than they might think. Important pockets of research exist in this area but tend to focus on the scientific validity of the text and rarely give much at...