UAB clinical trial looking at diabetes/gum disease connection

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Dentistry is one of three sites recruiting patients for a clinical trial to test whether the treatment of chronic periodontitis, or gum disease, improves control of Type 2 diabetes.

Debridement case revisited

From time to time, I get asked about the Cary woman who is being sued for defamation by a dental practice she complained about to me in a 2009 column.

Researchers Study Relationship Of Oral Cancers And Periodontal Disease

During the 88th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, in Barcelona, Spain, author J. Meyle, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, presented an abstract titled "P. gingivalis Infection and Immune Evasion of Oral Carcinomas." Meyle and his team are investigating the relationship of oral cancers and periodontal disease. They achieved results by ...

Researchers investigate oral cancer, periodontal disease relationship

Today during the 88th General Session & Exhibition of the International Association for Dental Research, in Barcelona, Spain, presenting author J. Meyle, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany, will present an abstract titled "P. gingivalis Infection and Immune Evasion of Oral Carcinomas."

Stereotaxis reports new capital orders of $10.2M in second-quarter 2010

Stereotaxis, Inc. announced today that its new capital order momentum continued to build in the second quarter of 2010. The Company generated new capital orders of $10.2 million, more than doubling new capital orders from the 2009 second quarter and representing a 42% sequential increase over orders in the first quarter of 2010. New orders from North America totaled $5.1 million of the total ...