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Posted by admin on Feb 3, 2019 in The Times Of Dentistry | 0 comments
More than 900 Saudi dentists remain unemployed while about 9,000 expatriate dentists work in hospitals under the Ministry of Health, according to the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCHS).
There are 5,287 Saudis and 9,729 expatriates who are licensed to practice general dentistry in the Kingdom.
Addressing the 20th batch of the commission's graduates in Jeddah on Tuesday, Health Minister Tawfiq Al-Rabiah reiterated his ministry's efforts to employ Saudi dentists.
The commission said there were 3,116 dental specialists, including 1,651 Saudis of whom nine were unable to find jobs.
According to the commission, there are 26 dentistry colleges in the Kingdom of which 18 are government-run and eight in the private sector. Each year they graduate between 2,000 and 3,000 dentists.
The commission said only 25 percent of the practicing dentists in the Kingdom were Saudis, adding that about 27.5 percent of the dentistry jobs will be Saudized each year. It said 21,800 jobs would be created for Saudi dentists by 2027.
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Align Technology reaches six millionth Invisalign patient
The company have announced that over six million patients have begun treatment with Invisalign, which include 1.4 million teenage patients.
The six millionth Invisalign patient, Yuzhe is a 12 year-old Chinese student who began treatment in October 2018 with Dr Jiawei Wo using Invisalign Comprehensive with mandibular advancement treatment.
Joe Hogan, Align Technology president and CEO said: 'We are delighted to be celebrating another significant milestone with Invisalign trained doctors and their patients.
Align Technology founded by Zia Chishti &, Kelsey Wirth in the year 1997, is a manufacturer of 3D digital scanners and clear aligners used in orthodontics. It is headquartered in San Jose, California; it manufactures the aligners in Juarez, Mexico and its scanners in Israel.
The Canada-United States Chapter of the Alliance for a Cavity-Free Future (ACFF) has awarded four interprofessional grants totaling over $50,000.00 (USD) to fund projects that will have a positive impact on reducing the instance of dental caries, which is reversible, for children aged 0-6. These projects will be carried out in 2019.
The grant program aims to bring together groups outside of dentistry, such as pediatrics and primary care, to help underserved communities. Made possible through funding from Colgate-Palmolive, the grants focus on populations with high caries needs and disadvantaged communities such as those with low incomes and or limited access to care.
Worldwide, 60–90% of school children and nearly 100% of adults have tooth decay.In fact, dental caries is the most common, yet preventable, chronic disease on the planet. The impact of this disease has a profound impact on children in North America. In Canada, an estimated 2.26 million school days are missed each year due to dental related illness. In the United States, a child is five times more likely to seek emergency room treatment for dental problems than for asthma, often because they can't see a dentist, are uninsured or can't afford routine dental care.
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More than a million people in England cannot register with an NHS dentist, with many "left in pain" and paying the price for ministers' "indifference", dental leaders warned.
Analysis of the NHS GP Patient Survey found one in four patients, roughly 1.03 million people, are not on the books of an NHS dentist and have been unable to get an appointment in the past year.
The British Dental Association (BDA) said the issue is set to get worse with three out of five dental practitioners in England saying they intend to reduce their NHS work, or stop entirely, in the next five years.
Britian's high sugar habit has led to soaring numbers of tooth extractions, particularly in young children, where they have risen 50 per cent in the past two years.
Access issues exist in every English region, but Lincolnshire is the area worst hit, followed by parts of Norfolk, Derbyshire, West Yorkshire and Cornwall, according to the NHS data.
Posted by admin on Dec 19, 2018 in The Times Of Dentistry | 0 comments
Associate Professor of Endodontology Maobin Yang, director of the Regenerative Health Research Laboratory at the Kornberg School of Dentistry, and Professor and Department Chair of Bioengineering Peter Lelkes have been collaborating on the research for three years. Yang and Lelkes' work focuses on using dental stem cells to regenerate the – pulp and dentin, tissue.
In generating the tissue using stem cells, there's one major problem. "When you put the components into the canal, they don't have spatial control, so they don't know where to grow the pulp and the dentin—the dentin outside and the pulp inside. So we need structure."
That's where Lelkes, a Laura H. Carnell Professor, came in: He worked with Yang to develop a bioengineered two-sided scaffolding to guide the tissue growth.
This is one of the great cases when he says, 'Here, I have a clinical problem, let's try to find an engineering solution to this problem.'"
— Peter Lelkes, Department Chair, Bioengineering
"The beauty of the system is that we have shown in vitro , that we can engineer a two-sided scaffold, and can guide the stem cells to differentiate into both pulp cells and dentin, producing odontoblasts that will eventually repair the root canal. We—our smart scaffold—can do this differentially with great efficacy."
Yang and Lelkes' partnership was born out of a friendship that occurred by happenstance: When Yang arrived at Temple six years ago, he initially worked out of a lab in Lelkes' department and found a mentor and friend in Lelkes. So when he needed bioengineering assistance in his research, he turned to Lelkes.
"This is one of the great cases when he says, 'Here, I have a clinical problem, let's try to find an engineering solution to this problem,'" Lelkes said.
The pair recently published their findings in the journal Tissue Engineering.