Have you been thinking of upgrading your current tooth replacement strategy but aren’t sure where to start? This is a great time of growth in modern dentistry, especially when it comes to replacing missing teeth! With the evolution of dental implants, patients don’t have to suffer some of the pains of the past when older,…
Month: August 2014
Facial flushing due to: Food Allergies? Contact Dermatitis? or something else…read on.
Categories: Health and Well being, Pregnancy
There was a great case report recently of a 4 years old child that presented to the doctor for possible food allergies? A little of digging into the past medical history and it was discovered that the child has a normal delivery but forceps were used to…
FDA Reschedules Hydrocodone Combination Products from Schedule III to Schedule II
Categories: Blog
You may ask why? Because 46 people die every day from overdose of prescription pain medication. The FDA Final Rule came down, rescheduling hydrocodone combination products from schedule III to schedule II of the Controlled Substance Act was published in the August 22, 2014 in the Federal Register. What does this mean? That mean any medication…
46 people die every day in U.S. from overdose of prescription pain medication
Categories: Blog
This is why the FDA recently rescheduled all medications with hydrocodone from schd III to schd II. See the stats on CDC Vitals: http://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/opioid-prescribing/index.html
Most common side-effects of narcotic pain medications
Categories: Blog
Below is a diagram of the most common side-effects of vicodin, which has the active ingredient of hydrocodone: Below is a diagram of the most common side-effects of Percocet, which has the active ingredient of oxycodone. (FYI, Percocet or any medication containing the…
Why CBCT when suspecting external root resorption with impacted third molars?
Categories: Blog
On many occasions, when patients present to our office for extraction of third molars as adults, a CBCT is recommended in preparation for surgery. Some patient may even go as far as question “the need” to obtain a CBCT. There is more and more recent research backing up the need for CBCT imaging, as they…
Is that the Easter bunny?
No, its not. Those are diverging roots on a fully developed third molar in an adult patient that came to our office in pain for the extraction of his third molars in his 30’S. Three roots with that level of divergence is a bit unusual and unexpected, especially since it was not clearly visible even…
Running even 5 min per day can save your life… later?
Categories: Health and Well being
Really! In a new study published this past Monday in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers from multiple academic institutions found that running for as little as 5 minutes a day could significantly lower a person’s risk of dying prematurely! The runners’ risk…
