BACKGROUND The authors aimed to determine whether electrical dental devices would interfere with the function of cardiac pacemakers or implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) in humans. METHODS The authors exposed asymptomatic nonpacemaker-dependent patients to commonly used electrical dental equipment (for example, battery-operated curing lights, ultrasonic baths, ultrasonic scalers, ...

Akikazu Shinya, DDS, PhD Department of Crown and Bridge, School of Life Dentistry at Tokyo, The Nippon Dental University, Japan, Honorary Assistant Professor, Dental Materials Science Unit, Faculty of Dentistry, The University of Hong Kon and Research scientist, Department of Biomaterials Science, Institute of Dentistry and BioCity Turku Biomaterials Research Program, University of Turku Daiich...

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Ultrasonic cleaning of the RBFDP in ethanol for 10 min. The remnants of loose particles after air abrasion may impair wettability of the silane or the primer and the subsequently applied adhesive resin. Ultrasonic cleaning eliminates such remnants best.3 a Professor, University of Zürich, Dental Materials Unit, Center for Dental and Oral Medicine, Clinic for Fixed and Removable Prosthodontics a...

• severely cognitively impaired residents had the highest levels of oral diseases, required the most assistance with oral care, and gave carers the most difficulties with oral care. The Adelaide Dental Study of Nursing Homes was instigated by the Australian Dental Association (ADA) (SA Branch) and the AIHW Dental Statistics and Research Unit in 1998. Baseline data were collected during 1998 and...

Portable dental engines have been available to the profession for many years. Compact “portable dental offices,” with combined engine, soiirce of light, suction, and air-pressure, permit the dentist to bring a full range of dental services to the shut-in patient, right in his home. Unfortunately, most dental care at home is carried out without the aid of radiographs. “Portable” x-ray units, it ...

BACKGROUND AND OVERVIEW This article reviews the literature on the subject of dental unit waterline contamination. It has been expanded from the text of a lecture given at the Scientific Frontiers in Dentistry program sponsored by the National Institute for Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Md., in July 1999. The author examines the underlying biological causes of waterline coloniza...