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A great alternative to tooth whitening treatments involving strips or a whitening pen is the use of whitening toothpastes. They use the same types of chemicals that whiten teeth, but in much smaller doses, thus minimizing possible side effects of daily use.

The American Dental Association has issued a 2012 decree stating that American dentists can now expect a call for equipment inspection twice a year. Conveniently located to be at the start and at the finish of daylight savings time, the decree is first and foremost a safety regulation.

Dentists do not check their equipment often enough, according to Dr Michael D. Edwards, who is the spokesperson for this new campaign and chair of the ADA Council on Dental Education and Licensure Committee on Anesthesiology and CDEL’s Ad Hoc Committee on a Safety Awareness Campaign.

The S Bite is a soft, porous covering placed over the bite block of dental x-ray machines....

As dental implantation can be considered a routine oral surgery, it has an extremely high rate of success, around 75%, but the human mind is such that it is curious. This is why you can get so many hits on Google if you type in “dental implant failure”, even though the surgery is almost on the level of safety and success rates as appendectomies. It is understandable, as dental implantology is still relatively new, and is more complicated than just simply getting an infected organ removed.

As with all sorts of surgery, dental implantation also has some side effects to keep in mind. Some of them are acceptable and sadly as yet a possible side effect that needs to be dealt with. Others are a sign of something gone amiss, or possibly of medical neglect.