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Happy New Year – Highlights of 2024 – Part 2 – April to June

January 13, 2025

April

Easter 2024 – The Chosen

Easter - Jesus CHOSE to sacrifice for all of us

The Chosen is an American Christian historical drama television series. It’s the first multi-season series about the life and ministry of Jesus of Nazareth. Primarily set in Judaea and Galilee in the 1st century, the series centres on Jesus and the different people who met and followed or otherwise interacted with him.

Oh, by the way the book is already out for some time now…

I think it’s called it the Bible.

This month showcased the changing smiles series

Changing Smiles – Case Studies – Part 1

Right half teeth lean inwards with Left half teeth with a straighter look
Right half teeth built up with filling material to match the straighter Left half

Changing Smiles – Case Studies – Part 2

Changing Smiles – Case Studies – Part 3

The final week honoured the Anzacs.

ANZAC Day 2024 by the ocean

“And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can’t get to sleep?

And night time’s just a jungle dark and a barking M16?

And what’s this rash that comes and goes?

Can you tell me what it means?

God help me

I was only nineteen.”

The war, for many, is still going on.

Dawns first light on Coogee beach and hopefully peace

May

Blog Series: Doesn’t look like a big deal… or is it?

Decay travels faster in the dentine under the enamel. Fluoride has made the enamel very strong but not the dentine, the decay can get quite large before food gets caught in it or symptoms occur. The opening remains small and as such the body defences, found in saliva can’t get in. The germs say thank you! Don’t keep feeding them! Sticky sweet foods hang around in these deep grooves in the teeth. This is a genetic makeup of the person so blame mum and dad!

Small opening in the enamel - not much, maybe not

Dry Mouth – An Update

Of late there have been a number of patients coming with dry mouth as result of cancer treatment and other conditions. In one particular patient, the flavouring of tooth paste, particularly mint, would set off a very raw and hypertensive reaction, bordering on burning (hypesthesia).

Dry mouth is awful.

The saliva is affected by this state. Saliva is important to taste, swallowing, speech, decay prevention, and the quality of the enamel & gums.

It also acts as buffer to acidity and aids in digestion of food.

Chewing Recaldent® Advanced sugar-free gum with long lasting flavours helps stimulate saliva flow.

A.I. in Dentistry – The Beginning

The accuracy of diagnosis and clinical decision making allow us to achieve the best outcomes for our patients. The advancements in technology, particularly artificial intelligence, are starting to make about transformative changes in various fields of medicine and dentistry.

There are many aspects to A.I.. These include “driving” robotics in surgical treatment. A.I. has the ability to function without it being micro-managed by the user. It can come up with solutions that weren’t specifically programmed.

Example image of automatic anomaly detection https://researchoutreach.org/articles/detecting-dental-diseases-ai-dental-image-analysis/

Lumps and Bumps that are OK to have

There are lumps and (not really bumps) that are found in the jaw bones. They are variations of normal bone anatomy. (To be honest, we are all variations of normal). These extra bone shapes are exostosis. “Exo” – outside, “stosis” – bone. They are of all shapes and sizes and stop growing when we stop growing. They are a part of the bone. They are not independent of the jaw bones.

Large bony exostosis extending along the check side of the maxilla (upper jaw bone) pushing away the cheek. There is another exostosis on the exostosis, looking like a pink lump. It is next to an abscess which is yellow and soft compared to the very firm & hard exostosis.

June

Yes, being a dentist is fraught with danger.

Let’s start with the diseases we “face” every day, literally!

You see patients can carry microorganisms that can be transmitted to others. No person is an island!

Being a Dentist Can Be Dangerous – Diseases – Part 1

In dentistry these microorganisms be found in blood, saliva, tissue and breath. This can happen from surgical procedures, breathing, coughing, examining and cleaning teeth. Even doing a filling, where particles of teeth, filling and gums can become an aerosol.

That’s getting out of the patient. Getting into another person is by breathing in the aerosol, cuts in the skin, eyes, touching contaminated surfaces and rubbing eyes and touching the mouth.

Emergency hospital in Kansas USA during 1918 influenza pandemic. (By Otis Historical Archives, National Museum of Health and Medicine - (NCP 1603), National Museum of Health and Medicine.https://www.buckscountycouriertimes.com/news/20190923/mxfctter-museum-to-mark-historic-influenza-pandemic/1, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=25513204)
Covid safe

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Next week

Happy New Year – Highlights of 2024 – Part 3 – July to September