25 October 2007
Dental Implants for Replacing Natural Teeth Attracting More Senior Citizens
With dental implants, a patient can turn back the clock, and live their life with "teeth" again. For people with dentures 29% eat only soft or mashed food, 50% avoid many foods and 17% claim they eat more efficiently without their teeth.
18 October 2007
Dental Clinic Left Patients Toothless And In Debt
Many patients were left tangled up in an apparent dental deception with no teeth, and big loans to pay off. Hundreds of patients have been left high and dry by a chain of clinics called Rosewood Dental.
13 October 2007
Dental implants raise mad cow scare
The Department of Health pledged yesterday to step up inspections to prevent the illegal use of materials made from cattle bone in dental implant surgery, amid fears that such material may have been imported from regions affected by mad cow disease.
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