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Dental implants have been the toast of the dental industry for quite some time now, and are a fantastic development. They mark not only the potential end to tooth loss as a condition (the fact that most people will never have access to it because of the greed of the wealthy nations I a different question, but at least the science is there, and so we have the potential, right?), but also mark the entering of the dental industry into the era of regenerative medicine and not just preventive or reactive medicine. The dental implant is the most significant development in dentistry in our lifetime, and yet, it is not entirely without risks or complications.

Pacifiers and bottles are bad for teeth, but sometimes they may seem like a necessity. In this article I would like to speak a little about what kind of problems these very useful (and often indispensable) devices can cause, and how you can reverse and negate the damage.

The University of Szeged is one of the oldest medical training establishments in Europe. Recently, it has been at the center of attention, as it has proved that a correlation exists between psoriasis patients who smoke, and the adverse effects that the two conditions combined have on the periodontium of the patient. This correlation is so strong that now there is a study that says without a shadow of a doubt that psoriasis patients who smoke are much more likely to catch a bad case of periodontitis.