Dental Did You Know: Sleep Bruxism (Grinding)

About 8% of the general population suffers from sleep bruxism (tooth grinding).

Source: Lavigne G, News and Updates, JCDA, Nov 2008, Vol 74, No 9, p 775.

Hans Skariah, B.Sc., DMD
Promenade Court Dental Health Group in Mississauga
2233 Hurontario St., Mississauga, ON, Canada
(1/2 km north of the QEW in the Dome Building)
(905) 273-7100

Health 2.0 and the Wikipedia Entry

Hi everyone,

Well it finally happened...I made my first wikipedia entry (actually, just a small addition) to the Health 2.0 entry. I decided to add the great definition by my friend and colleague Dr. Ian Furst to the webpage:

Health 2.0 is participatory healthcare characterized by the ability to rapidly share, classify and summarize individual health information with the goals of improving health care systems, experiences and outcomes via integration of patients and stakeholders.

I have to say, adding content to wikipedia is really not that hard. I've been toying around the idea of creating a dental wiki to formalize and organize a lot of the dental tidbits and facts of the blog. we'll see if it comes to fruition.

Take care everyone

Sources: Health 2.0 wiki and Dr. Furst's Wait Time and Delayed Care Blog: http://waittimes.blogspot.com/


Hans Skariah, B.Sc., DMD
Promenade Court Dental Health Group in Mississauga
2233 Hurontario St., Mississauga, ON, Canada
(1/2 km north of the QEW in the Dome Building)
(905) 273-7100

Dental Did You Know: Dental Museum at Temple University

Temple University Dental School has a fantastic dental museum including a recreation of a Victorian dental office complete with life-sized figures.

Source: http://www.temple.edu/dentistry/museum/museum_photos.htm and
http://www.temple.edu/dentistry/museum.htm

Hans Skariah, B.Sc., DMD
Promenade Court Dental Health Group in Mississauga
2233 Hurontario St., Mississauga, ON, Canada
(1/2 km north of the QEW in the Dome Building)
(905) 273-7100

Excellent Article on Universal Dental Care

Love this article on universal dental care (which I support) in the University of Toronto Magazine. The link is below to the online summary. Here's the teaser snippet:


Canada's Universal Healthcare System stops, for a series of complicated and unpalatable reasons,at the gum line – a boundary not recognized by the human body. According to Jim Leake, a U of T professor emeritus of community dentistry, this artificial dividing line leaves tens of thousands of Canadians – especially low-income families, First Nations people and children – without adequate dental care.

Read the rest of the article here:

Gum Control :http://www.magazine.utoronto.ca/08autumn/leadingedge.asp#gum


Hans Skariah, B.Sc., DMD
Promenade Court Dental Health Group in Mississauga
2233 Hurontario St., Mississauga, ON, Canada
(1/2 km north of the QEW in the Dome Building)
(905) 273-7100

Dental Did You Know: Premolar Morphology

Most mandibular first premolars (two teeth in front of your lower molars) have a single root and a single (nerve) canal, 24% have greater than 2 canals. Typically, people from the African-American, Turkish and Chinese populations have an increased incidence of multiple canals.

Source: Cleghorn BM et al, The root and root canal morphology of the human mandibular first premolar: a literature review, J Endod 2007, Vol 33, pg 509-516.

Hans Skariah, B.Sc., DMD
Promenade Court Dental Health Group in Mississauga
2233 Hurontario St., Mississauga, ON, Canada
(1/2 km north of the QEW in the Dome Building)
(905) 273-7100