Beverly Hills Dentistry

Can What’s in Your Mouth Really Make You Sick?*
The news lately has been filled with frightening stories that link oral bacteria and oral disease to a variety of serious and potentially life-threatening illnesses.The subject isn’t really new. Dentists have long known that there is a strong relationship between oral health and general health. For example, tobacco, [...]

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Eruption Charts*
Primary Teeth Eruption Chart

Permanent Teeth Eruption Chart

*From American Dental Association www.ada.org

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California – Oral Health Profile*
Dental Visit
68.7% of the population visited the dentist or dental clinic within the past year.
Data source: BRFSS (2004)
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Teeth Cleaning
67.9% of the population had their teeth cleaned by a dentist or dental hygienist within the past year.
Data source: BRFSS (2004)
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Complete Tooth Loss
13.8% of the population 65+ have [...]

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Innovations in Techniques and Technology—The 20th Century*

A soldier awaits dental work out in the field soon after the U.S. Army Dental Corps was established in 1911.

1900—Fifty-seven dental schools exist by this year.
1900—Federation Dentaire Internationale (FDI) is formed.
1903—Charles Land devises the porcelain jacket crown.
1905—Alfred Einhorn, a German chemist, formulates the local anesthetic procain, later marketed under [...]

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Advances in Science and Education—19th Century*

1871 -The first electric dental engine, a self-contained motor and handpiece.

1801—Richard C. Skinner writes the Treatise on the Human Teeth, the first dental book published in America.
1825—Samuel Stockton begins commercial manufacture of porcelain teeth. His S.S. White Dental Manufacturing Company establishes and dominates the dental supply market throughout the 19th [...]

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The Development of a Profession-18th Century

Set of dentures made for George Washington by John Greenwood, 1798.

1723—Pierre Fauchard, a French surgeon publishes The Surgeon Dentist, A Treatise on Teeth (Le Chirurgien Dentiste).  Fauchard is credited as being the Father of Modern Dentistry because his book was the first to describe a comprehensive system for the practice [...]

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The Beginnings of a Profession*

Mayan jade inlay in an anterior tooth, circa A.D. 900

500-1000—During the Early Middle Ages in Europe medicine, surgery, and dentistry, are generally practiced by monks, the most educated people of the period
700—A medical text in China mentions the use of “silver paste,” a type of amalgam.
1130-1163—A series of Papal edicts prohibit [...]

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Ancient Origins*
 

Toothbrush fashioned from a tree branch

5000 BC—A Sumerian text of this date describes “tooth worms” as the cause of dental decay.
2600 BC—Death of Hesy-Re, an Egyptian scribe, often called the first “dentist.” An inscription on his tomb includes the title “the greatest of those who deal with teeth, and of physicians.”  This is the [...]

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The most unattractive thing about a smile are discolored teeth, according to a recent American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry (AACD) consumer poll. And the numbers prove it! Whitening treatments are the number one requested cosmetic dental procedure and have increased more than 300% since 1996, according to the AACD.
White Smile Diet Foods and Tips include:

Strawberries [...]

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There is no difference. In dentistry cap and a crown refers to a covering that usually covers the entire tooth. Cap or crown can be made of different materials: Porcelain, porcelain with either precious or non precious metal under covering, yellow gold, white gold, acrylic, plastic and plastic with porcelain re-enforced.

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