News tagged with tooth problems

Open wide and say 'zap'

A group of researchers in Australia and Taiwan has developed a new way to analyze the health of human teeth using lasers. As described in the latest issue of Optics Express,, by measuring how the surface of a tooth respon ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Aug 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Excessive cola consumption can lead to super-sized muscle problems warn doctors

Doctors have issued a warning about excessive cola consumption after noticing an increase in the number of patients suffering from muscle problems, according to the June issue of IJCP, the International Journal of Clinical Pr ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 7




Search results for tooth problems


Water treatments alone not enough to combat fluorosis in Ethiopia

Increased intake of dietary calcium may be key to addressing widespread dental health problems faced by millions of rural residents in Ethiopia's remote, poverty-stricken Main Rift Valley, according to a new Duke University-led ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 3

Discovery of Indian artifacts complicates Genesis solar project

The Feb. 27 letter from the chairman of the Colorado River Indian Tribes was pleading and tough. It asked President Barack Obama to slow the federal government's "frantic pursuit" of massive solar energy projects in the Mojave ...

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 5

Team releases findings from 2011 cruise to measure the concentration, distribution, and impacts of Fukushima radiation

(PhysOrg.com) -- An international research team is reporting the results of a research cruise they organized to study the amount, spread, and impacts of radiation released into the ocean from the tsunami-crippled ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

False killer whales use acoustic squint to target prey

Hunting in the ocean's murky depths, vision is of little use, so toothed whales and dolphins (odontocetes) rely on echolocation to locate tasty morsels with incredible precision. Laura Kloepper from the University of Hawaii ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Space foil helping to build safer cars

A special foil sensor developed to measure the pressure on a spaceplane’s wings during reentry into Earth’s atmosphere is now helping to build safer cars.

Technology / Engineering

created Mar 19, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

O, Pioneers! (part 2): The derelicts of space

Before the Pioneer 11 spacecraft could venture beyond our solar system, it had to pass through the rings of Saturn. At the time, the rings were not well characterized and some thought the spacecraft could ...

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists use physical experiments, computer modelling to explore efficiency of bladed tooth shape

Using a combination of guillotine-based experiments and cutting-edge computer modelling, researchers at the University of Bristol have explored the most efficient ways for teeth to slice food. Their results, ...

Biology / Other

created Mar 06, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Irish mammals under serious threat from 'invasional meltdown'

Some of Ireland's oldest inhabitants are facing serious threat and possible extinction because of foreign species, according to researchers at Queen's University.

Biology / Ecology

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Amazing skin gives sharks a push

Shark skin has long been known to improve the fish's swimming performance by reducing drag, but now George Lauder and Johannes Oeffner from Harvard University show that in addition, the skin generates thrust, ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Counties with thriving small businesses have healthier residents, researchers find

Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations — with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes — than do those that rely on large companies ...

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1


List of search results for tooth problems