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Hi, I’m Ali Cook for the Dental News Network. Today is June 13,
2012, and this is your Wednesday Watch.
Here are today’s top stories.
Now you can hear songs in your head – literally.
A design student in New York has created a mouthpiece, modeled after the “grills”
worn by hip-hop artists, to hear songs via bone conduction through the skull.
It is powered by a vibrating motor connected to an mp3 player, which
is then attached to a mold of the upper teeth.
Once the music starts, there is no need for headphones – the music can be heard
right through the skull.
In fact, if the volume is loud enough, others can hear it too.
For anyone interested in this technology, please be warned that dentists have advised
against these types of appliances because the metals, gold, and diamonds
used in them
can have adverse effects on tooth enamel.
Anthropologists are studying calculus and bits of food found on ancient dental
remains, shedding light on the dietary habits of the time.
Even specimens that are tens of thousands of years old maintain ancient
data that can be analyzed.
Fragments of bacterial DNA can help researchers identify pathogens that
were once present in the mouths of ancient people.
Researchers are able to examine the calculus directly on the tooth with a
microscope, but then they can carefully scrape the material off with some of today’s common dental tools
for further analysis.
This new research has so far indicated some of the plant and vegetable eating
habits of ancient people that were formerly unknown.
Coming up, a special report, but first, here is a brief message.
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And now, Products and Procedures.
for those of you haven't yet read the June issue of Dentistry Today, I'd
like to tell you about an article on Bioesthetic dentistry that we have
featured this month.
It is the last installment of a 4-part series by Drs. Ken Hunt and Mitch Turk.
We caught up with them recently, and here they are with more information.
Thank you Ali, it's a pleasure to be here this afternoon to talk about our
fourth article in Dentistry Today about a young man who had an uncomfortable
bite and worn teeth.
And it's a fourth in a series of articles, and Dr. Hunt will tell you
about the first article.
Article number one is where
we take models of the individua,
we take central records, and then we analyze the cases as far as looking at the
three principles
1. Can we get the joint seated in the socket?
2. Can we develop anterior guidance? And 3. Do we have proper morphology of
the teeth?
The second article is all about the form of the teeth and the importance of
applying natural biologic form into the case
using natural form as a basis for comprehensive diagnosis in
rehabilitation.
Article three basically about a MAGO,
which helps us get the joint seated in the socket stable, comparable position
and to see if we can get the intercuspal position, CR relationship the same,
and by utilizing subtractive and additive coronalplasty to achieve this.
And the fourth article is the culmination of the case
taking the case from the wax-up and transferring it into the mouth to create
a long-lasting, comfortable, and anesthetic dentition. Thank you.
Thanks, Drs. Ken Hunt and Mitch Turk.
And thank you for checking out the Wednesday Watch.
We'll see you next week with more from Dentistry Today and DNN.