Dental Educators

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Comment by Christine Taxin on October 21, 2009 at 6:28pm

Hello,
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Comment by David Goldshaw on September 14, 2009 at 7:56pm

Would like to make clear about alginate impression stroage before pouring models.
Firstly disinfect your impression.
Do not wrap impression with wet paper towel.
This could have been done about 5yrs ago, now all paper is recycled and breaks down. So any paper in contact with your fitting surface will impart micro-fine particles changing the dimesional ability of your alginate.
The way around this is to use the moistened paper in a ball or wrapped/folded up and placed on the underside of the impression tray(not on contact with the impression) This will ensure adequate moisture retention until pouring starts. The moistened impression should then be placed in a plastic baggie (like a zip-lock bag) or a secure plastic-container(tupper-ware style) so moisture remains inside.

This is standard fare in handling alginate impressions, BUT almost no-one knows about this...how come?

Comment by supertooth on September 14, 2009 at 6:36pm

Preventing Tootyh Decay.

Supertooth and the Good Food Friends dental health education project has been developed to help prevent tooth decay, that is still the most common and second most costly food related disease even with the benefits of fluoridation, yet caries is the easiest disease to prevent by reducing demineralisation and increasing remineralisation of teeth.

All cavities occur from demineralisation where acid-forming food like sugar and starch are left on teeth after eating.

Though 95% of trapped food is noticeably left packed between teeth after every meal or snack under chewing pressure, over 80% of cavities develop inside pits and fissures in grooves on chewing surfaces where brushing, fluoride and saliva have no access to remove trapped food or plaque bacteria, neutralise acid and remineralise demineralised teeth.

Fissure sealants from the dentist, block food being trapped inside grooves and prevents acid demineralisation and reduces decay. In the same way, not eating acid forming carbohydrate like sugar is proven to help prevent decay.

The glass model of a tooth from the Supertooth and Good Food Friends dental health education project www.supertooth.org, confirms that chewing forces food to be trapped by displacing previously trapped food and that some foods are hard to displace. Also brushing, toothpaste and saliva have no access to protect teeth. However chewing can also force fissure sealants, small fillings, saliva and fluoride toothpaste inside pits and fissures as can be seen with a glass model of a tooth on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRca_whVI4Y&layer_token=f816c25d718e437b

This indicates and is proved by other tests that all tooth decay relies on acid forming food left on teeth and a failure of fluoride toothpaste and saliva to access those sites of acid demineralisation

What do you think?

Comment by Harriett Kaster on November 6, 2008 at 9:09pm

Hello, I just joined the group. I teach Dental Assisting in Indianapolis, Indiana.
I would welcome comments from other educators. I think we all have much we could share with each other.

Comment by David Goldshaw on October 30, 2008 at 10:08pm

Hello, I teach dental materials in many North American schools. I have lots of good updated information to share.