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October 2010

LONG TERM CONSEQUENCES OF OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA

I was recently reading a book “Sleep Medicine for Dentists” by G. Lavigne and P. Cistuli which state that obstructive sleep apnea cases often present with centrally obese individuals (large bellies) with accompanying sleepiness. When [...]

SLEEP DEPRIVATION LINKED TO POT USE IN TEENS

Sara C. Mednick and James H. Fowler, both of the University of California, San Diego, and Nicholas A. Christakis of the Harvard Medical School mapped the social networks of 8,349 adolescents in grades 7-12. The [...]

BABY BOTTLES AND PACIFIERS

A strong association has been found between exclusive bottle-feeding and malocclusion. (SOURCE: The Journal of the Canadian Dental Association--1991) Your Jaws ~ Your Life (page 46) Backward forces of bottle and pacifier sucking constrict dental [...]