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Does cutting down on sugar help to treat yeast infections?

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, then you have a “candida infection”. This is believed to disturb normal intestinal processing of water, sugar and natrium and cause diarrhea.

Dental treatment under general anaesthesia

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 [...]

Jaw pain – what now?

It has been found that the jaw is perfectly capable of adapting to a new set of teeth, this just takes some time. So nowadays doctors like to wait before starting any treatment. Only one device has been found to help in the acute phase of jaw pain – the Michigan rail.

Can teeth grow back?

Researchers speculate that if the trigger for tooth growth is found then one day teeth might be stimulated to grow back in adults. Although mammals only possess one set of teeth, some vertebrates have several sets of teeth that grow!

Dentists and hygiene

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?

Symptoms of tongue cancer

Posted by Dental News Team am 26, Jan - 2010

general topics, oral surgery

Symptoms of tongue cancer

You have a sore spot on your tongue which just refuses to heal – you suspect it may be tongue cancer – what now?
Generally, whenever you have a sore or some alteration in the mucuous membrane of your mouth, you should remove your denture (assuming you have one), stop taking medication (even homeopathic medication) and wait a week.
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Should the sore refuse to heal even after a full week, then you need to go to the hospital and get a biopsy.
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Now you can see some pictures showing tongue cancer in its early stages, but these pictures are by no means exhaustive! You will see more pictures tomorrow, and find out how you can avoid tongue cancer and oral cancer!