{"title":"Vitamin D and its impact on oral health--an update.","authors":"Sidney H Stein, David A Tipton","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Vitamin D has been shown to regulate musculoskeletal health by mediating calcium absorption and mineral homeostasis. Evidence has demonstrated that vitamin D deficiency may place subjects at risk for not only low mineral bone density/osteoporosis and osteopenia but also infectious and chronic inflammatory diseases. Studies have shown an association between alveolar bone density, osteoporosis and tooth loss and suggest that low bone mass may be a risk factor for periodontal disease. Several recent reports demonstrate a significant association between periodontal health and the intake of vitamin D. An emerging hypothesis is that vitamin D may be beneficial for oral health, not only for its direct effect on bone metabolism but also due to its ability to function as an anti-inflammatory agent and stimulate the production of anti-microbial peptides.</p>","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"91 2","pages":"30-3; quiz 34-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29999954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"More than 1,417,000 seniors (including 568,700 with disabilities) will reside in Tennessee in 2030.","authors":"H Barry Waldman, Mark Pancotto, Steven P Perlman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In the coming years, Tennessee and the rest of the country will experience a burgeoning number of senior residents, including those with disabilities. A review of these developments in one state and its counties, and the anticipated demand for dental services, is presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"91 4","pages":"8-11; quiz 12-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30396233","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molly S Rosebush, Shailaja Kishan Rao, Sandeep Samant, Weikuan Gu, Charles R Handorf, Lawrence M Pfeffer, Christopher A Nosrat
{"title":"Oral cancer: enduring characteristics and emerging trends.","authors":"Molly S Rosebush, Shailaja Kishan Rao, Sandeep Samant, Weikuan Gu, Charles R Handorf, Lawrence M Pfeffer, Christopher A Nosrat","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Oral cancer is arguably the most serious condition that dental providers may encounter in their practice. The relatively poor prognosis associated with oral cancer highlights the importance of the dental team's awareness of the disease. While many characteristics of oral cancer have endured over time, new research is revealing trends that are changing the way we approach its screening, diagnosis and treatment. In this report, we provide a translational overview of oral cancer, including risk factors, signs and symptoms, clinical management, as well as our recent findings on the role of chronic inflammation in the development of the disease. In addition, our recent genetic profiling approach in both cancer cell lines and in patients has identified potential biomarkers, molecular pathways and therapeutic drugs (Velcade and Aspirin) for oral squamous cell carcinomas. This comprehensive review should be of interest to all dental professionals.</p>","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"91 2","pages":"24-7; quiz 28-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30000509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Filling cavities or restoring teeth?","authors":"Antheunis Versluis, Daranee Versluis-Tantbirojn","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Teeth seldom fracture under normal functional loading. This indicates that the natural tooth design is optimized for the distribution of regular masticatory forces by means of its properties and structure. When a tooth is restored with an intracoronal restoration, however, the incidence of tooth fracture increases. Since remaining tissues do not change, the restorative actions apparently alter the original stress distributions. In this study, the effect of different restoration types (unbonded amalgam and bonded composite restorations) were compared with the original stress conditions of the intact tooth, using finite element analysis. It was shown that an unbonded amalgam restoration did not restore the original stress conditions but led to much higher stresses in the buccal and lingual enamel and to higher tensile stresses in the cavity floor. The unbonded amalgam thus filled the cavity but did not restore the tooth. In contrast, a bonded composite restoration restored the original stress pattern in the tooth if there was no polymerization shrinkage. Polymerization shrinkage causes residual tensile stresses in the dentin around the cavity and in the buccal and lingual enamel. Residual tensile stresses in the buccal and lingual enamel are momentary compensated by compressive stress components during occlusal loading. It was concluded that bonding and elimination of residual stresses are prerequisites for restoring the original tooth integrity.</p>","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"91 2","pages":"36-42; quiz 42-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29999955","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
John Antonelli, Timothy L Hottel, Sharon C Siegel, Laura Darnell
{"title":"The acrylic resin transfer coping technique for making accurate interocclusal records.","authors":"John Antonelli, Timothy L Hottel, Sharon C Siegel, Laura Darnell","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>When the goal of restorative treatment is to maintain the patient's preexisting intercuspation and occlusal vertical dimension (OVD) following tooth preparation for crowns or fixed partial dentures (FPDs), casts must be mounted on an articulator in the same pretreatment tooth-to-tooth relationship. A simple technique is described that uses acrylic transfer copings over prepared teeth to record and preserve this relationship so that working and opposing casts can be mounted accurately. The technique may be used to recapture the lost third leg of the tripod after teeth have been prepared. To further reduce errors when mounting casts onto an articulator, a method is recommended that uses rigid connectors to join and stabilize casts in a manner that minimizes potential movement during placement and setting expansion of gypsum mounting materials.</p>","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"91 2","pages":"17-21; quiz 22-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30000507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expanded functions for dental auxiliaries education in Tennessee.","authors":"Morris L Robbins","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Access to care continues to be an overriding issue in dentistry. The development of new categories of dental auxiliaries, such as mid-level providers, is a matter of concern to many states and the dental profession. Tennessee has an EFDA educational program for dental auxiliaries taught by dental school educators who have trained more than 300 auxiliary personnel in restorative and prosthetic dentistry. Graduates of this educational program have helped keep Tennessee's dentists well ahead of any increased demand for dental care.</p>","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"91 1","pages":"6-8; quiz 9-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2011-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29808954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cemento-osseous dysplasia in African-American men: a report of two clinical cases.","authors":"Peter M DiFiore, Sarah Elizabeth Bowen","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two clinical cases of the unusual occurrence of cemento-osseous dysplasia in men and the clinical, radiographic and demographic findings that formed the basis for their diagnosis and management are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"90 4","pages":"26-8; quiz 28-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30005534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Head Start Dental Home initiative addresses access to care.","authors":"Pitts Hinson","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"90 1","pages":"21"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28896032","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Molly S Rosebush, K Mark Anderson, Swati Y Rawal, Harry H Mincer, Yeshwant B Rawal
{"title":"The oral biopsy: indications, techniques and special considerations.","authors":"Molly S Rosebush, K Mark Anderson, Swati Y Rawal, Harry H Mincer, Yeshwant B Rawal","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76685,"journal":{"name":"The Journal of the Tennessee Dental Association","volume":"90 2","pages":"17-20; quiz 21-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2010-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29179212","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}