News tagged with orthodontist

Orthodontic researchers ask: Where's your retainer?

Have you been wearing your retainer? It's a question countless parents ask of their children post-braces. Now Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine researchers are getting serious about the question.

Medicine & Health / Other

created Mar 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Powerful 3-D X-rays for kids in braces should be the exception, not the rule

(PhysOrg.com) -- Some orthodontists may be exposing young patients to unnecessary radiation when they order 3-D X-ray imaging for simple orthodontic cases before considering traditional 2-D imaging, suggests a paper published ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Jan 26, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Baby teeth re-studied for effects of radiation fallout

Questionnaires will soon be sent to thousands of men who donated their baby teeth half a century ago to scientists seeking to learn whether radioactive fallout in milk the donors drank as children affected their health later ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jan 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0