July 26, 2011 News Dental amalgamRestorative

The Replacements – terrible movie, effective use of amalgam?

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From Dental Bicuspid.com – Assistant editor Rob Goszkowski July 26,2011 — There’s a pervasive problem in restorative dentistry, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association (July 2011, Vol. 142:7, pp. 842-849): Too many dentists are replacing amalgam…

July 2, 2011 News PharmacologyPharmacotherapeutics

Tylenol 3 is such an ‘ugly’ drug

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From Science Daily – July1, 2011 In the cover article of this month’s Journal of the American Dental Association, a group of nine dentists, pharmacists, and addiction experts provides new research and recommendations to help dentists combat, rather than contribute to, abuse…

May 5, 2011 News AnaesthesiaEvidence based dentistry

Study IDs root cause of local anesthetic-related NSDs

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From Dr. Bicuspid May 5, 2011 — The root cause of local anesthetic-related neurosensory disturbances (NSDs) in dentistry has been unclear. But now a group of Danish researchers say it is neurotoxicity related to high-concentration formulations of anesthetics — particularly articaine…