A team of specialists at The University of Miami Miller School of Medicine announced that they are the first surgeons in the United States to restore a person’s sight by using a tooth. The procedure is formally called modified osteo-odonto-keratoprosthesis (or MOOKP).
For more on this story, please view the amazing video of the procedure …..
This is an amazing new twist on the Michael Jackson saga. To all my readers, I had to post this as I found it fascinating what lengths a person will go to when seeking to feed an addiction .
Although I do not know or claim that this story is factual, I read this on the [...]
Yes, we know how great those sports drinks taste after a hard workout or simply to help quench your thirst especially in those hot summer months, but did you ever realize that prolonged use of some of these sports drinks might weaken your natural tooth structure.
What could cause this you may ask, well, it’s the [...]
New Canker Sore Therapy Found
New research has been reported by a team of physicians at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev regarding the treatment of painful canker sores. The research, which was led by Dr. Illia Volkov, found that a nightly dose of vitamin B12 could help prevent these painful oral sores. The findings were [...]
The American Dental Association (ADA) , Procter & Gamble ( makers of Crest) and Oral-B conducted a survey and found that from all the physical features which included the body, eyes and hair, the smile outranks all of these features. They also found that men did not maintain this feature as well as women:
Men brushed twice [...]
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I would like to welcome you to the new Floss.com! We have decided to use a blog format so that our thousands of daily visitors can feel more at home by asking questions, placing posts so that others may help or to simply to stay informed. My team and I will try to [...]