Course: The Foundation of Modern Dentistry

Saliva-based diagnostics have become evident that saliva becomes a popular choice because the level of its content could reflect certain disease states. Salivaomics is the information derived from studies in …

Saliva is also known as spit. It is a clear liquid that’s made in your mouth 24 hours a day, almost nonstop to keep your mouth moist. First, our saliva …

Saliva comes from special parts of our body called salivary glands. Everyone has 3 major pairs of glands: there are 2 under your tongue called sublingual glands, two under your …

In general, 4 times a year (every 3 months) is the frequency we should visit the dentist, if your dental care is very good. If you have any tooth problems, …

How to Floss Use about 18 inches of floss wound around one of your middle fingers, with the rest wound around the opposite middle finger. Hold the floss tightly between …

The objective of brushing our teeth is quite easy: remove bacteria and food residues from our mouth while we massage our gums while avoid damaging our teeth and gums with …

The so-called “dental cleaning” is one of the most ambiguous definitions in dentistry. Being quite complicated because patients try to understand dental terms most simply. It has created a situation …

Conventional “periodontal treatment” is the “all in one” treatment. X-rays are taken, and the condition of the gums and bone surrounding the teeth is evaluated. Treatment consists of manual scaling …

The risk factors increase susceptibility to periodontal disease, including smoking, diabetes, nutritional factors, and stress. Immune cells from patients with periodontal disease secrete higher quantities of proinflammatory cytokines than those …

Smokers are 2.7 times more likely to have periodontal disease than non-smokers. Smokers have 18 times more periodontal pathogens compared with non-smokers. People who have been not exposed to preventive …

Usually, people will have the two biggest enemies,which are carious and periodontal disease.people will understand that what can they do in your life to improve the state of your mouth and prevent carious and periodontal disease happen. After …

Let’s start with what tooth decay is. At some point, dental caries was defined as “The disease of the calcified structures of the tooth (enamel, cementum, dentin). In 2010, a …

The periodontium is the set of tissues around our teeth that are affected by periodontal disease. The disease begins with Gingivitis. If it is not treated in time, patients evolve …

Please read this article, Timing of implant placement after traumatic dental injury. This review article describes how dental implants can reliably replace lost teeth due to traumatic tooth damage. However, …

Please read this essay, Patient Selection for Endosseous Dental Implants: Oral and Systemic Considerations. This paper reviews the literature and discusses patient selection for endosseous dental implants and the effect …