American Dental Association

teeth, in the lower jaw, often press on or wrap around the nerves that supply feeling to your tongue, lip and chin. And in these cases, where the roots are in close proximity to either the lingual nerve (LN) or the inferior alveolar nerve (IAN), the dental website exodontia.info warns that surgical extraction can cause nerve damage, leaving you with temporary or permanent loss of feeling, or…

The American Dental Association describes it by saying fluoride can occur in drinking water as a result of geological compositions of soil. Also The American Dental Association, describes it by saying that some areas of the country have higher levels than others so in those areas the levels of fluoride will be higher. Finally fluoride was…

Fluoridation: Creating Better Smiles Everyday “Water Fluoridation has changed the smiles of Americans for 57 years” –Scott M. Presson, DDS, MPH, and Chief of the Program Services Branch in the division of Oral Health at the Center for Dieses Control and Prevention (Molony). Water fluoridation is defined as; “to add fluoride to drinking water to reduce tooth decay” (Fallon). Most communities have fluoridated drinking water. Almost all water contains some naturally occurring fluoride, but at…

The amount of people receiving fluoridated water has risen 400% in the past 50 years, yet America’s dental cavity rate is higher than countries who do not fluoridate their water. Fluoride has been called the greatest public health achievement of the 20th century, but still there is no proven effect to the American people's teeth. So, why than is 66.3% of the U.S. population receiving fluoridated water and why are taxpayers paying millions of dollars to put a harmful chemicals into their water?…

Overview A tooth brush is a piece of plastic with bristles. Chew sticks were discovered in Babylonia in 3,500 BC (Wikipedia, 2014) giving a glimpse into the history of oral hygiene. Oral health may still play a role in social status; whether or not your family can afford braces when you’re in grammar school, or if you pay out of pocket for whitening services. Not all procedures are available to all, but the need for a healthy mouth has been instilled in us for many years and is now a standard in…

misalignment or incorrect relation between the teeth of the two dental arches when they approach each other as the jaws close; and, when the interproximal contact area between neighbor teeth on a same arch is bigger due to tooth rotation or when such contact is open. Consequently, this unusual alignment cause the teeth of one arch not to have a nice contact area between them, fact that may predispose an individual to be more susceptible to dental biofilm accumulation and calculus formation.…

Dental Hygiene Choosing a career can be very difficult, especially when many are doing so at such a young age. When I first started looking into becoming a dental hygienist, it was really something I had never thought I would consider. I knew I wanted to be around people and be able to help them. This led me to going into the healthcare field. From there I leaned more towards becoming a nurse, which I decided after a little experience, was not for me. I still wanted to be able to help people and…

Introduction: Change assumes an essential part in the achievement of an association. Change is one of only a handful couple of constants on the planet we live in. Associations start change when something is wrong or something is lost, generally there is no motivation to change. Each association is consistently stood up to by change. Change activity is activated because of changes in business sectors, rivalry, innovation, and client concerns. In the business environment changes happen on a…

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social scientists as well as the government agencies could determine who qualified as a “real” India. Speck determined which cultures were worthy of study and which were not. In so doing, he established the measures by which to bound the parameters of American Indian…