The dentist will see you now — on YouTube, that is.
October 29, 2007
YouTube, famous for its entertaining clips, now has a growing list of informative videos, too, posted by experts on many subjects — including dentistry. Read more from the New York Times
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Going to the Buffalo Niagara Dental Meeting?
October 24, 2007
If so, stop by the UB Health Sciences Library booth! Visit us at Booth #136 to see historical instruments, learn about the Health Sciences Library's history of dentistry collection, find out about our current resources and services...and meet your dental librarian (me!).
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Number of teeth – a predictor of mortality in 70-year-old subjects
October 23, 2007
Can the number of remaining teeth predict mortality in geriatric populations?
An article published in the journal Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology takes a look at just that issue.
UB affiliates and those on campus can read the article Number of teeth - a predictor of mortality in 70-year-old subjects for some interesting research on the topic.
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ScienceDirect - Service Interruption
October 19, 2007
ScienceDirect will be unavailable due to scheduled maintenance on Saturday, October 20, 2007 for approximately 2 hours starting at 08:00 AM EST.
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Boom Times for Dentists, but Not for Teeth
October 15, 2007
Here's some food for thought from the New York Times....
For American dentists, times have never been better.
The same cannot be said for Americans’ teeth.
With dentists’ fees rising far faster than inflation and more than 100 million people lacking dental insurance, the percentage of Americans with untreated cavities began rising this decade, reversing a half-century trend of improvement in dental health. MORE
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EndNote X1 Now Available
October 05, 2007
The University at Buffalo Libraries is making latest version of EndNote available to the University community. The price for the EndNote download is free for UB affiliates. Physical CD distribution is also available. The regular distribution channel is to purchase discs from UBMicro. Physical discs are available to accommodate those who do not have broadband internet access and for departments. University at Buffalo ID is required.
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Breast-Feeding Doesn't Contribute to Cavities
October 02, 2007
Breast-feeding will not ratchet up the risk of toddler tooth decay, new research claims.
Cavities affect one in four young children, but the contributing factors are more likely to be smoking during pregnancy, being poor, or being Mexican-American, the study in the October issue of Pediatrics suggested.
The finding throws a new twist into the heated debate between breast-feeding advocates and their critics.
The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends breast milk for all infants for their first year of life. However, health experts have long been concerned about tooth decay once baby teeth come in, especially for infants who nurse all night.
Researchers at the University of Rochester and New York University analyzed demographic details, dental health data and infant feeding information from 1,576 toddlers whose families participated in the 1999-2002 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. MORE...
Interested in reading the full article in Pediatrics? Take a look through our e-journals list. You'll find that we have an online subscription to Pediatrics.
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