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Watch your mouth! It's dental health week.


Dental Health Week, which takes place in the first full week of August, is the Australian Dental Association’s major annual oral health promotion campaign. Its aim is to educate Australians about the importance of maintaining good oral health in every aspect of their lives.



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Researchers are first to sequence rare bacteria that causes rampant tooth decay


Little is know about the bacteria Streptococcus sobrinus, which accelerates tooth decay in some people. This will soon change because a team of researchers has now successfully sequenced the complete genomes of three strains of S. sobrinus.


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The Unregulated Dental Laboratory Products Myth


The perception found in some sections of the dental community that dental laboratory products such as dental crowns and dental bridges are "unregulated" is entirely incorrect and addressed in a course offered later this year.


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Dental plaque is no match for catalytic nanoparticles


In a study published in Nature Communications this week, researchers led by Hyun (Michel) Koo of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine in collaboration with David Cormode of Penn's Perelman School of Medicine and School of Engineering and Applied Science used FDA-approved nanoparticles to effectively disrupt biofilms and prevent tooth decay in both an experimental human-plaque-like biofilm and in an animal model that mimics early-childhood caries.


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Meet the Gympie dentist changing the world


For the past six years, Dr Tim Topalov of Gympie's River Dental has been providing a much-needed service to Third World countries. Dr Topalov, his son Ben plus Tania and Brett Hall, Bec Hof and Kathy Sylvester travelled to Malawi, Africa, for two weeks to offer their assistance free of charge.


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