Join NYU College of Dentistry and ABC7 in celebrating the 25th anniversary of free health screenings in NYC. Free dental screenings will be available on March 30th, March 31st, and April 1st (spring break*), at the NYU College of Dentistry, 345 E. 24th Street (corner of First Avenue) from 8:30 am -7:00 pm.
All children ages 6 months to 10 years will receive a cute, cuddly “healthy smiles” teddy bear commemorating their visit. Adults and children will receive free dental screenings and vouchers for free oral examinations and polishings. Vouchers for free dental sealants will be provided for children, as well as for free custom-made mouth guards for young athletes. Free diabetes and blood pressure screenings will take place, as well as free oral cancer screenings for adults. Visitors will also receive free toothbrushes and other personal oral hygiene products.
WHO: NYU College of Dentistry and ABC7 WHAT: Free dental and oral cancer screenings, diabetes and blood pressure screenings Vouchers for free oral examinations, sealants and custom-made mouth guards Free toothbrushes and other oral hygiene products WHERE: NYU College of Dentistry, 345 E. 24th Street (corner of First Avenue) WHEN: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, March 30, March 31, and April 1, 8:30 am – 7 pm.
No appointment necessary. For more information, call 1-866-698-0264. And be sure to watch the Accu-weather forecast on ABC7 at 5:00 pm and 6:00 pm during the week of March 29th. For more information about the NYU College of Dentistry,
Japanese dental students are now able to practice on a patient which is similar to human but it feels no pain.Though the response of the robot is just like human. The patient is a humanoid robot made from steel and plastic although it responds just like the real thing.While few people like sitting in the dentist's chair, students aiming to fix people's smiles now have a new robot to practice on before they head to real patients.
Billed as the world's first large-scale practical use of a dental robot, 88 students at Japan's Showa University took their tests to become dentists using the patient robot and the robot managed to survive without breaking throughout the tests.
The robot was developed by the department of Orthodontics at Showa University and stands at a height of 157 centimeters from head to toe.It is the third generation of its kind, and was developed to allow students a way to practice on a life-like patient that would react without having to actually work on a real human being. The robot also secretes artificial saliva to simulate the conditions of the human mouth, and even gets tired and attempts to close its mouth if the student takes too long.
While Showa University has been using humans up to this point for its final clinical tests for students, the dental hospital hopes to let their new patient robot take over the task of being poked, drilled and prodded to train the next generation of smile makers.
According to a research conducted by Indiana American Studies University School of Dentistry black men may be at increased risk for heart problems caused by the accumulation of dental plaque.researchers studied 128 black and white women and men and found that the accumulation of plaque no change in the total number of white blood cells, cause a known risk factor for heart problems. However, the accumulation of plaque in black men was associated with a significant increase in the activity of white blood cells, called neutrophils, an important component of the immune system, researchers noted. None of the study participants had periodontal (gum) disease. They were healthy people were asked to neglect their oral hygiene as part of the study, the study authors explain. According Kowolik a professor of periodontics "If you get a bacterial infection anywhere in the body, billions of neutrophils come flooding out of your bone marrow to defend against the intruder. Our observation that with poor dental hygiene, white blood cell activity increased in black men but not black women or whites of either sex suggests both gender and racial differences in the inflammatory response to dental plaque. This finding could help us identify individuals at greater risk for infections anywhere in the body including those affecting the heart,"