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There’s a fungus everybody’s talking about: candida, a kind of yeast! About 50 – 80% of all healthy persons have this yeast in their mouth and digestive system. If stool is found to contain large amount of this yeast, it is believed to disturb normal intestinal processing of water, sugar and natrium and cause diarrhea. Healthy people live in harmony with their yeast and bacteria. How this balance works and what happens when the system gets out of balance is shown by the video on...

Some people are terrified of going to the dentist. Can they get help? What used to be the exception years ago has now become a common procedure – dental treatment under general anaesthesia. We’ve found out that one dental team in Austria goes even further and offers such patients not only treatment under anaesthesia, but also help in reducing their fear. “Fear of the dentist puts a very great strain on the patient”, reports Dr. Belsky. Fear often starts with one bad experience...

Jaw cracking, jaw noises, and arthrosis of the jaw are all common occurences, but if you do not have any serious comlaints, they do not require therapy! Earlier, any problems you had with your jaw were categorized as „ cranio-mandibular dysfunction“ – or CMD, for short. But since there have been changes in the way the jaw is treated in recent years, the term commonly used now is myoarthropathy – or MAP. - It has been found that the jaw is perfectly capable of adapting to a new set of...

Teeth – the daily grind! A gene called Osr2 provides the code for a protein known as „odd-skipped-related 2 protein“, thanks to which your teeth are all lined up in a row. This was discovered by geneticists at the University of Rochester. These results may one day help to find a way to get lost teeth to grow back and prevent the birth defect known as cleft palate. - Activating this gene in mice causes teeth to grow back! Preliminary studies have already shown that this gene is also active...

Today the dentist’s team tells all! In answer to our article (24th february) we would like to publish an email, which reached us yesterday… Have you ever found yourself sitting in the chair at the dentist and asking yourself who had those instruments in their mouth before you? Have they been properly disinfected and sterilized? That’s right: you just don’t know. I know, because I’ve been working as a dental assistant and prophylaxis assistant for several years. Recently,...