I'm from the UK and I've been offered several doses of ozone treatment
by my dentist, particularly to make it possible to have crown fitted and
to secure a bridge that's being undermined by decay. I gather from
internet sites that this treatment has been sweeping across the UK ...

What are all the ways you can detect scar tissue in the TMJ of a TMD
patient?

   I don't know the last time I ordered a shade guide, but mine are all
old and falling apart.
   I don't see them in any of my catalogs.  Anyone out there have a
good source?

I had an extraction done today, one of the back molars. The blood clot in
the socket has some white stuff in it. Have I got some of my dinner stuck in
it or is this normal?

Thanks to all for your generous time in helping me with my first case. I
won't reply  to all individually (it's 22h20 here, and I start again
tomorrow at 08h15.) I have archived all your replies and sent the
patient home this morning with more bleach syringes. He seems happy with

   No, not mine.
   But today I was called for a conference call between Aetna and a man
in upstate New York.  I had been treating a patient who apparently is
not who he claims to be.

Need a dentist in Suburban Maryland, outside DC, who is associated
with Optimum Choice or United Concordia.  
The guy I see now runs ones of those "fast food" dental offices where
the hygenist cleans your tooth, and then he gives the teeth a

A few days after the tricky extraction of my lower left rear molar
(three weeks ago now) I started to get intermittent short, sharp pains
in some of the *upper* teeth on the left side of my mouth, mostly in
the two teeth in front of the main incisor (or 'fang' as I call it)

I am assuming there are statistics available if I knew where to look but
here is a question I have about the frequency of tooth repairs:
Are there figures showing the attrition rate of various teeth and do the
upper teeth usually last longer (have less problems) than the lower set?

Hello legally-conscious US dentists,
How about the following case:I am a dentist in Europe. I recently
had a new patient, a 6-year old nice little girl with some really
suspicious interproximal discolorations in the deciduous teeth.

Hello... I've been searching posts on here to see if anything fits my
particular situation but I haven't seen anything that quite matches
up.  I had an onlay put on one of my bottom back teeth (molar?  it's
the one next to the last if you don't count my wisdom teeth which were

I just jumped into the dental office software game about a month ago
looking for work on the side.  My first experience was to upgrade an
office from Softdent v9.8 to v10.0.2.  The original office network
configuration, peer-2-peer through a 100BaseT pocket hub, four win98

i went to a new dentist today... and he said that i should get the
metal fillings... he said that he doesn't like the plastic ones and
doesn't understand why i should want them.  i have the plastic ones
now, but they seem to just be crumbling.... should i follow his

Hey there
I wonder if anyone can clear something up for me.  Every few weeks I
wake up in the morning, feeling a bit sick and it feels like something
is stuck to my tonsils.  I go to the bathroom mirror, open wide and my