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In This
Issue:
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Captain Supertooth Video Now in
Spanish
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Back to School Dental Quiz
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Students, Dentists, Benefit from
Recent Foundation Grants
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Mouthguards Protect Student
Athletes from Injury
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Buying, Caring for Mouthguards
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NIH Offers Free Resources for
Oral Health Education
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Cool Science Fact
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Guide to Dental Emergencies
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Kids Have Fewer Cavities, but
There's Room for Improvement
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"Meth Mouth" Threatens Oral
Health
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The caped superhero of oral health
now delivers his message on videotape, in both Spanish
and English. To find out how to request a copy of the
free videotape,
read
on.
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Think you and your students know a
lot of oral health trivia? To test your knowledge about
dental floss, toothpaste, and much more, read
more. |
Delta Dental of New Jersey Foundation
is funding programs in Camden and Newark, NJ, public
schools, providing scholarships for students entering
dental-related fields, helping to establish a school-based
dental program in New Haven, CT, and supporting programs
to help those with physical and developmental
disabilities. For more about these programs,
read
on. |
The American Dental Association,
American Academy of Pediatrics and American Association of
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons would like to see more
kids using mouthguards when playing sports. To find out
why,
read
on. |
| For guidance on how to shop
for and maintain a mouthguard,
read
on. |
| The National Institutes of
Health offers extensive materials for K-12 science teachers
and school administrators. Its program for elementary
school students, called Open Wide and Trek Inside,
focuses on oral health. For more about this program and
how to download materials,
read
on. |
| Here's one way to illustrate
how small mouth bacteria really are. According to the
National Institutes of Health's Curriculum Supplement
Series, bacteria are about 1 micrometer in size. "If a
tooth were as tall as the Empire State Building (412
meters), a bacterium would be about the size of a thumb (4
centimeters)." |
Dental injuries can happen on the playground and in the
classroom. For a quick guide on what to do if an accident
happens, read on. |
The incidence of dental caries has been steadily declining
since 1994. However, more than half the children age 15
and over in the U.S. are still affected by tooth decay,
according to Oral Health: Preventing Cavities, Gum
Disease, and Tooth Loss 2005, published by the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention. For more on this
report, read on. |
Methamphetamine use can wreak havoc on users' oral health,
according to the American Dental Association. For more
about the symptoms and consequences of "meth mouth,"
read more. |
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