Penn Dental Medicine’s Geelsu Hwang Engineering a Next-Generation Dental Implant
Every year, roughly 3 million Americans receive implants to replace lost teeth. While this technology has represented a leap of progress in dental.
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Penn Dental Medicine Study Finds a Combined Treatment that Could Take a Bite Out of Tooth Decay
While fluoride-based treatments have long been the gold standard in dentistry for preventing tooth decay, this singular approach does not sufficiently control biofilm—the.
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Nanorobotics System Presents New Options for Targeting Fungal Infections
Infections caused by fungi, such as Candida albicans, pose a significant global health risk due to their resistance to existing treatments, so much.
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Penn Dental Medicine Study Identifies New Bacterial Species Involved in Tooth Decay
Collaborating researchers from Penn Dental Medicine and the University of North Carolina (UNC) have discovered that the bacterial species Selenomonas sputigena can have an important role.
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Penn Dental Medicine Launches Educational Video Series, Podcast on Statistical Concepts
The Penn Dental Medicine Center for Integrative Global Oral Health (CIGOH) has launched “Statistics with Crayons,” a new animated video and podcast series aimed at making.
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Penn Dental Medicine Study Finds Cavity-Causing Microbes Form Superorganism that Crawls on Teeth
A Penn Dental Medicine study has found that a cross-kingdom partnership between bacteria and fungi can result in the two joining to form.
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Penn Study Shows Shapeshifting Microrobots Can Brush, Floss Teeth
Shapeshifting microrobots may one day act as a toothbrush, rinse, and dental floss in one. The technology, developed by a multidisciplinary team, including.
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Penn Dental Medicine Study Shows How One Inflammatory Disorder Exacerbates Another
The immune system remembers. Often this memory, primed by past encounters with threats like bacteria or viruses, is an asset. But when that.
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Penn Dental Medicine Study Shows Gum with Plant Protein May Reduce SARS-CoV-2 Transmission
A chewing gum made with a plant-grown protein “traps” the SARS-CoV-2 virus, reducing viral load in saliva and potentially tamping down transmission, according.
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Penn Dental Medicine Study Finds ‘Nanozyme’ Therapy Prevents Dental Plaque Buildup
A growing body of evidence points to a link between iron-deficiency anemia and severe tooth decay. Whether the connection is correlative or causative.
