There's a pervasive problem in restorative dentistry, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association (July 2011, Vol. 142:7, pp. 842-849): Too many dentists are replacing ...

The ADA Forsyth Institute (AFI) received a $6.2 million grant from the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) to develop artificial intelligence (AI)-powered smart ...

Diagnosis of oral lichenoid lesions (OLL) and whether adjacent amalgam restorations should be replaced are controversial matters. This review identified no RCTs or CCTs, and therefore included 19 ...

SEM images of self-healing dental composites: before and after heal. Self-healing composites may autonomously repair microcracks that is hard to detect and almost impossible to repair manually. The ...

A debate has been running for decades about the safety of amalgam tooth fillings (the silvery-looking ones most people are familiar with). Some public-interest groups and consumers say that since such ...

But now an alternative to amalgam in fillings is on the horizon and promises to be both safe and low cost. A new $11 million Co-operative Research Centre project, partly funded by the federal ...

Medline (1966–2000), Embase (1980–2000) and the Cochrane Library (issue 2, 2000) were reviewed along with reference lists of existing relevant reviews. Data were extracted that related to: study ...

Following the ban on amalgam as a dental filling material, which came into force at the beginning of the year, the Austrian Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK) and the Austrian Dental Association (ZÄK) were ...

Mercury alloyed with a number of metals forms amalgam, which is primarily used for dental fillings. The common constituents of amalgam are mercury, tin, silver, copper, and other trace metals. The use ...