Tag: Dental health
Archeology: The Viking Body Cult – Knowledge
The grave actually didn’t differ much from the others. In Havor on Gotland about a millennium ago, people buried a 55 to 60 year old woman. The dead woman lay…
Despite the EU ban: Dentists want to continue to be able to use amalgam – health
Christoph Benz has just come from lunch. There was sushi. “Now I definitely have more mercury in my blood than someone who has amalgam fillings in their teeth,” says the…
Dental health: How healthy were our ancestors’ teeth? – Health
When archaeologists find human teeth, they can read them like an open book. Thanks to new examination methods, a single tooth is often enough to find out a lot about…
Newspaper warns about electric toothbrushes: There is reason to be careful – the economy
An army of three million internet-connected toothbrushes is said to have attacked a Swiss company and cut it off from the network for several hours. This news has been amusing…
How Vikings Treated Dental Problems – Knowledge
One can only speculate about what everyday life was like in Scandinavia during the Viking era. But one thing is clear: people were not yet eating Santa Claus, gingerbread or…
Teeth: For whom supplementary dental insurance is really worthwhile
Health insurance companies often only pay a small percentage for dental treatment. Additional insurance can be useful – or very, very expensive. How to find the right plan and when…
Teeth grinding: what to do with bruxism – and do I really need a splint? – Health
It seems half of Germany is gnashing its teeth. Ingrid Peroz is a professor of dentistry at the Charité in Berlin and coordinator of the current guideline on the phenomenon…
tooth splints: "We sometimes have trouble getting patients off the rails"
Dentist Ingrid Peroz on the best remedies for grinding your teeth, what causes bruxism and just how bad nighttime jaw grinding really is. source site
Visit to a Munich dental practice – Munich
Anja Beivers, 44, and her father Klaus Eckers, 79, shaped the oldest group dental practice in Munich, which was founded in 1900. A conversation about the condition of the Munich…
Medicine: The almost perfect smile
Clear plastic adult splints are taking the market by storm. But dentists and consumer advocates are also critical of the development. source site