Weird and Wild: Piercing Problems, Tongue Rings, and TXA
Some of our patients are total daredevils. This unique population keeps us on our toes. Our weird and wild series recently discussed laceration repair involving tattoos, but problematic piercings also present to the ED.Traditional through-and-through piercing of the tongue body without complication. Photo: Creative Commons.An 18-year-old otherwise healthy woman presented to the emergency department with tongue swelling and mouth pain. Your first thought may be that this is an allergic reaction, but you quickly realize this is not the patient you expected. This patient just had her tongue pierced, and something ha...
Source: The Procedural Pause - January 2, 2018 Category: Emergency Medicine Tags: Blog Posts Source Type: blogs
Safe pediatric dental anesthesia is the right of every child
When you tell anyone in health care that “sedation” to the point of coma is given in dentists’ and oral surgeons’ offices every day, without a separate anesthesia professional present to give the medications and monitor the patient, the response often is disbelief.
“But they can’t do that,” I’ve been told more than once.
Yes, they can. Physicians are not allowed to do a procedure and provide sedation or general anesthesia at the same time – whether it’s surgery or a GI endoscopy. But dental practice grew up under a completely different regulatory and legal structure, with state dental boards that are s...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - December 30, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="https://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/karen-s-sibert" rel="tag" > Karen S. Sibert, MD < /a > Tags: Physician Surgery Source Type: blogs
‘ Tis the Season to Stop Being Passive Aggressive
The first time I heard the term “passive aggressive,” someone used the term to describe me. I was in graduate school and was 23-years-old. This was back in the 80s. It was thesis time, and I had to type mine on a computer in the Iowa State Department of English computer lab. All the PCs were taken, so I politely asked a woman I didn’t know approximately when she was going to be finished typing. I think I said something like, “Do you have a lot to do? Will you be much longer?”
Well, the woman didn’t like that and said, “You can cut the passive aggressive crap. I’ll be done when I’m done.”
I was su...
Source: World of Psychology - December 21, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Agitation Anger Holiday Coping Personal Personality Violence and Aggression Family Arguments Family Gatherings Insecurity Passive Aggression Passive Aggressive Rude Behavior Source Type: blogs
New Dental Material Can Resist Biofilm Growth And Kills Bacteria
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have developed an antibacterial resin for dental procedures such as cavity fillings. They hope that the material can provide improved fillings that resist tooth decay and last longer.
Conventional materials for dental fillings are prone to being covered in plaque, a sticky biofilm that can lead to tooth decay and filling failure. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania are working on developing something better. “Dental biomaterials such as these,” said Geelsu Hwang, a researcher involved in the study, “need to achieve two goals: first, they should kill pathogenic m...
Source: Medgadget - December 5, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Conn Hastings Tags: Dentistry Materials Source Type: blogs
HYPERMOBILITY CARTOON: In which I come unhinged — again
I have severe Joint Hypermobility Disorder. I dislocated my jaw chewing on a piece of baguette. I walked a couple blocks to the dentist, did the new patient registration, and they advised me to go to A&E [Accident & Emergency]. So my husband picked me up, and four hours later my jaw had been clicked […] (Source: Andrea's Buzzing About:)
Source: Andrea's Buzzing About: - December 4, 2017 Category: Disability Authors: andrea Tags: Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome Hypermobility TMJ (Temporomandibular Joint Disorder) Source Type: blogs
Flosstime Automated Floss Dispenser: A Medgadget Review
In the field of dentistry, gadgets for your pearly whites have tracked along fairly well with advancements in technology. You can now buy Bluetooth-enabled toothbrushes and let a robot drill holes in your mouth to place a dental implant. But one too often overlooked practice that hasn’t yet been modernized is flossing. No matter how much you hate it, flossing is hugely important, not just for your oral health, but for your overall health. We’ll spare you the usual dentist spiel on the benefits of flossing, but we will say that a recent study showed that a staggering 1 in 3 people have never flossed their teeth....
Source: Medgadget - November 29, 2017 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Dentistry Exclusive OTC Source Type: blogs
Senators Blumenthal and Grassley Ask CMS to Continue Funding Open Payments
In a letter to Acting Secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Eric D. Hargan, United States Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) ask HHS to prioritize funding for the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Center for Program Integrity (CPI), a program that enhances transparency in transactions between medical providers and pharmaceutical companies.
The CPI’s Open Payments database, created under the bipartisan Physician Payments Sunshine Act, mandates disclosure of billions of dollars in payments from manufacturers to prescribers and hospitals. This is of concern...
Source: Policy and Medicine - November 9, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
Taking Time for Quiet: How to Make Every Day Feel Like Vacation
Throughout my growing up years, I rarely remember having quiet moments. My memories were guarded by loud TV’s, talking with others, and the constant chatter in my head about my goals for the days and or worries. I don’t remember having anyone around that taught me about quiet. It wasn’t until I was in college, with the hopes (at the time) of becoming a dentist and feeling sort of lost by that, did I learn from my own life coach about the importance of making space for quiet.
Now working in private practice as a therapist I notice that this is the struggle with many clients and many of them have never e...
Source: World of Psychology - November 6, 2017 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jessica Wright, LCSW Tags: Anxiety and Panic Habits Happiness Personal Stress Mindfulness Personal Growth Personal Time Present Moment quiet Relaxation Stillness Vacation Source Type: blogs
The Future of Vision and Eye Care
3D printed digital contact lenses, bionic eye implants, augmented reality eye condition explainers: the future of vision and eye care are full of science fiction-sounding innovations. Here is where digital health will take ophthalmology in the future!
More than 80 percent of perception comes through vision
Researchers estimate that 80-85 percent of our perception, learning, cognition, and activities are mediated through vision. Compared to that, our hearing only processes 11 percent of information, while smell 3.5 percent, touch 1.5 percent and taste 1 percent. Don’t you think that’s possible? Renowned scholars, ...
Source: The Medical Futurist - October 26, 2017 Category: Information Technology Authors: nora Tags: Augmentation in Medicine Cyborgization Medical Augmented Reality 3d printing AI diabetes digital digital health eye care future guide Healthcare Innovation ophthalmology Personalized medicine technology vision Source Type: blogs
New Jersey Holds Public Meeting on Proposed Regulation
Pictured from left to right: Sharon M. Joyce, Acting Director, Division of Consumer Affairs; Christopher S. Porrino, Attorney General of New Jersey; Maryann Sheehan, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Division of Consumer Affairs; Rachel D. Glasgow, Regulatory Analyst
“It is our intent to move forward with these rules.” Attorney General, Christopher S. Porrino
Last Wednesday, the New Jersey Office of Attorney General, Division of Consumer Affairs, Department of Law and Public Safety, held a public hearing regarding the state’s proposed regulation, “Limitations on and Obligations Associated with Accep...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 23, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
New Jersey " Gift " Ban Next Step - Public Hearing on Limitations on and Obligations Associated with Acceptance of Compensation from Pharmaceutical Manufacturers by Prescribers
Pictured from left to right: Sharon M. Joyce, Acting Director, Division of Consumer Affairs; Christopher S. Porrino, Attorney General of New Jersey; Maryann Sheehan, Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affairs, Division of Consumer Affairs; Rachel D. Glasgow, Regulatory Analyst
“It is our intent to move forward with these rules.” Attorney General, Christopher S. Porrino
Last Wednesday, the New Jersey Office of Attorney General, Division of Consumer Affairs, Department of Law and Public Safety, held a public hearing regarding the state’s proposed regulation, “Limitations on and Obligations Associated with Accep...
Source: Policy and Medicine - October 23, 2017 Category: American Health Authors: Thomas Sullivan - Policy & Medicine Writing Staff Source Type: blogs
How can we improve mental health screening?
Medical care and understanding have changed since separation of physical and mental health made much sense. We know now that mental state and internal physiology influence one another and that social factors affect disease risk more powerfully than genetic ones. Still, as a health care system, we perpetuate a culture of division, and limit our capacity to help people because of our inability to categorize them neatly.
There are so many with unmet mental health needs in our communities: The few with severe illness we can see and get to and sometimes fix, the many with less severe conditions we don’t know always ho...
Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog - October 19, 2017 Category: General Medicine Authors: < a href="http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/post-author/john-corsino" rel="tag" > John Corsino, DPT < /a > Tags: Conditions Primary Care Psychiatry Source Type: blogs
Large Genomic Study to Explore Ways to Manage the Opioid Drug Crisis
A University of Michigan research group is using genomics to extract clues about how to contain the opioid crisis. The details were included in a recent article about the effort (see:U-M Precision Health Effort Looking Beyond Genomics in Researching Opioid Crisis). An excerpt from it is presented below:The University of Michigan's Genomics Initiative last week recruited the 50,000th patient who will contribute a biological sample for genomic analysis and phenotypic data to a growing repository for longitudinal research....The initiative's first project will investigate the many characteristics, including genomics, ...
Source: Lab Soft News - October 19, 2017 Category: Laboratory Medicine Authors: Bruce Friedman Tags: Clinical Lab Industry News Clinical Lab Testing Lab Industry Trends Medical Research Pharmaceutical Industry Preventive Medicine Source Type: blogs
The Dietary Lessons of Teeth
We can draw many important lessons on human diet from history. In particular, examination of human teeth provides some of the most important insights we have into what humans should eat, what we should not eat, or at least are poorly adapted to eating.
Prior to around 10,000 years ago, tooth decay was uncommon–despite the lack of fluoridated toothpaste, dental floss, toothbrushes, and dentists. When grains were added to the diet, there was an explosion of tooth decay: 16-49% of all teeth recovered showed decay or abscess formation.
Modern efforts at dental hygiene help subdue the extravagant tooth decay that now occu...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - October 18, 2017 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Undoctored Wheat Belly Lifestyle caries cavities decay dental health gluten gluten-free grain-free grains misalignment teeth Source Type: blogs
