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A blue curing light used to harden dental fillings also may stunt tumor growth, Medical College of Georgia researchers say. “The light sends wavelengths of blue-violet light to the composite, which triggers hardening,” says Alpesh Patel, a rising MCG School of Dentistry junior. “The light waves produce free radicals that activate the catalyst and speed up polymerization of the composite resin.

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The executive director is the principal agent of the Board of Trustees and elective officers and acts as the chief operating officer of Association and all its branches.

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The Department of Health must undo the damage done by the new dental contract, while dentists need to seize the opportunities that will emerge from the chaos, delegates heard today at the annual Local Dental Committees’ conference in London. Addressing the conference, the Chair of the British Dental Association’s General Dental Practice Committee, Dr Lester Ellman said: “The Department must work with the profession, not against it.

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Fluoride toothpaste is prohibitively expensive for the world’s poorest people, according to a study published in BioMed Central’s open access journal Globalization and Health. Researchers revealed that the poorest populations of developing countries have the least access to affordable toothpaste.The team, which includes Ann Goldman of the School of Public Health and Health Services at the George Washington University in Washington D.C.

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Ending several decades of struggle by California dental hygienists to achieve independence as a distinct public health profession, Governor Schwarzenegger today signed Senate Bill 853 (Perata). The measure creates the Dental Hygiene Committee a new regulatory body housed under the California Dental Board dedicated solely to overseeing the state’s dental hygiene profession.

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Leading oral health advocates in Massachusetts gathered in Sturbridge on June 4 and 5 to begin discussions on creating a comprehensive Oral Health Plan for Massachusetts aimed at eliminating barriers and increasing access to care for all Massachusetts residents. The two-day conference was attended by more than 200 dentists, dental hygienists, physicians, lawmakers, state oral health officials, insurers and a wide array of health advocates and policy leaders.

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The American Dental Association (ADA) believes the recent settlement between the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the group Moms Against Mercury simply sets a definite deadline (July 28, 2009) for the FDA to complete what it began in 2002 - a reclassification process for dental amalgam, a commonly used cavity filling material. As far as the ADA is aware, the FDA has in no way changed its approach to, or position on, dental amalgam.

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MetLife announced the addition of four new on-line Quality Resource Guides to its self-study dental Quality Initiatives Program. MetLife’s continuing education program, which can be accessed on-line at: http://www.metdental.

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Pregnant women can safely undergo essential dental treatment and receive topical and local anesthetics at 13 to 21 weeks gestation, says a study published in the June issue of The Journal of the American Dental Association.Although obstetricians generally consider dental care safe for pregnant women, supporting clinical trial evidence has been lacking.

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The number of patients seen for NHS dental treatment varies from area to area, latest figures released by The NHS Information Centre confirm. The report, NHS Dental Statistics for England, Quarter 3: 31 December 2007, found the proportion of both children and adults receiving NHS dental treatment varied according to strategic health authority (SHA) area. The variation was wider for adults than for children. In the two years to December 2007, 49.

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