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Dental Bonding

Article Published by Web MD.  For more information, please see Dental Health: Dental Bonding on Web MD.
Dental bonding is a procedure in which a tooth-colored resin material (a durable plastic material) is applied and hardened with a special light, which ultimately “bonds” the material to the tooth to restore or improve person’s smile.
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Lagging Economy Affects Dentistry

Written by DentalBlogs.com on April 25, 2008
With exciting dental tools, like CEREC, iTero, and diode lasers, as well as the popularity that Extreme Makeover brought to cosmetic dentistry, being a dentist in 2008 seems like a pretty good career choice. The industry is moving forward, expanding; there are new revenue-generating opportunities…but the US economy is [...]

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Search Engines and Marketing | How to Bring Traffic to your Website

There are a number of ways to bring traffic to your website.  Targeted traffic represents potential customers and everyone likes customers.  This article contains a few ways to drive traffic to your site.
You should have a short and long term marketing goal for your website. Short term must be immediate traffic and long term must [...]

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The Case of the Inefficient Marketing Strategy

This is the city….Seattle, Washington. An established practitioner, in an effort to increase his new patient load, decides to allocate more money towards his existing marketing budget this year. In doing so, he makes an unsupported decision to distribute the funds via the only method he knows…the Yellow Pages and newspaper advertising, and as a [...]

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Gum Disease And Heavy Marijuana Use Linked

Heavy marijuana use has been found to contribute to gum disease, apart from the known effects that tobacco smoke was already known to have.
In a group of more than 900 New Zealanders, smoking cannabis more than 40 times a year since age 18 was found to be responsible for more than one-third of the new [...]

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Routine Intake Of Dairy Products Can Help Reduce Periodontal Disease

Consumers have long known that including dairy in their diets can help maintain healthy bones and even help promote weight loss. However, a recent study published in the January issue of the Journal of Periodontology, the official publication of the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP), demonstrated that routine intake of dairy products may also help [...]

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Top Ten Famous Dentists

Top Ten Famous Dentists (found on HealthCareerNet.)
It’s funny to think of dentists as famous or adventurous.  I found this list on HealthCareerNet and thought I would share.
1. John Henry “Doc” Holliday. Primarily remembered for his connection to Wyatt Earp and the infamous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Doc Holliday was a gambler, a gunfighter and [...]

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Teeth Loss Linked to Demographics

The government has official statistics for measuring dental health in the United States.  The statistic: The percentage of seniors 65-74 who have lost all of their teeth.
Modern dentistry has driven that percentage down over time nationally, but there is a huge difference when comparing individual states.  So what is the main reason some states have [...]

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It Is Not Just A Kid Thing: Fluoridated Tap Water Benefits Older Adults Even More

The benefits of fluoridation in preventing tooth decay have been known for over half a century and today approximately two-thirds of Americans have access to fluoridated public water.
Gerardo Maupomé, B.D.S., M.Sc., Ph.D., of the Indiana University School of Dentistry, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, and colleagues report in a study published in the Fall issue of [...]

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