Remember when you were so scared and you had a dry mouth? Well, that’s not exactly what we’re talking about now. Your mouth dryness may be the same but from causes other than fear. Dry mouth (xerostomia) is not considered to be a disease even though it can increase the risk of having some dental and buccal conditions. It is a condition in which the glands that produce saliva in your mouth fail to produce enough saliva to keep your mouth moist. It can happen due to many reasons ranging from medications, age, sleep habit or condition, and many other…
Author: Isreal Olabanji DST, RN
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Dental Tools- Overview In the field of dentistry, each dental tools in like manner convey its own particular quality. What’s more, they are generally as fluctuated as the diverse branches of dentistry. These kinds of high-quality and durable Dental tool Supplies provide a job for the branch of dentistry where they will be used. However, there are obviously some for general utilization like dental mirrors, Explorers or tests, tweezers, spit ejectors and the more essential ones like gloves, veils and cotton rolls. Easily convert PDF files to PowerPoint presentations with a PDF to PPT Converter. Quick, hassle-free conversion for seamless…
What is Osteonecrosis of the jaw? Osteonecrosis of the jaw is a condition in which an area of jawbone is not fully covered by the gums. The condition usually lasts for up to eight weeks before you can identify it as ONJ. If the bone of the jaw is exposed, there will be no blood running through it and begins to die. ONJ usually occur most often when a patient undergoes an invasive (surgical) dental procedure in oral surgery such as dental extraction. Also, osteonecrosis of the jaw occurs spontaneously over boney growths in the roof or inner parts of…
POLIO is a very old disease, but modern understanding, of it, does not date back much further than 1905. (ELIZABETH KENNY) Polio strikes suddenly and often without any warning. It very often strikes children without regard to whether they are healthy, eating a balanced diet and we’ll conducive environment, or sickly, malnourished and poorly-environment. When it strikes, the individual patient family face several days or even weeks of uncertainty before they know how severely the patient will be affected by the disease. I have seen a patient that become polio crippled for life. When it kills, it…
WHEN POLIO STRIKES? It is rare for a person to have polio more than once. it is much like several other common diseases, such as measles, mumps, and chicken-pox, which are also virus diseases. People who have had polio, therefore, have little reason to fear subsequent exposures to the disease. study of infectious diseases has proved that when disease-producing bacteria or viruses attack us, out bodies promptly set to work making specific chemical substances to fight these enemies. These chemical defense soldiers are collectively called antibodies. They are generally carried in the bloodstream and many of them persist there for…