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UCSF Protocol for Caries Arrest Using Silver Diamine Fluoride January 2016 Periodontics and Oral-Systemic Relationships Atypical Presentation of Zoster Leadership Trajectories of U.S. Dentists JournaCALIFORNIA DENTAL ASSOCIATION You are not a sales goal. You are a dentist deserving of an insurance company relentless in its pursuit to keep you protected. At least that’s how we see it at The Dentists Insurance Company, TDIC. Take our Risk Management program. Be it seminars, online resources or our Advice Line, we’re in your corner every day. With TDIC, you are not a sales goal or a statistic. You are a dentist. Protecting dentists. 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For my Mmother, this category is very broad and microorganisms that literally share our body space.” encompasses many things common to our world today. For example, it includes computers, plastic wrap, allergies and depression. (Allergies did not exist and ■ Benefi ts them with no detriment ■ The nose (one site sampled). depression had not yet been invented.) to us. ■ The mouth (nine sites sampled: Allergies and depression aside, her ■ Benefi ts both of us. attached gingiva, hard palate, worldview does show us how rapidly our ■ Benefi ts them and is detrimental throat, palatine tonsils, dorsum scientifi c understanding of the world to us. of the tongue, buccal mucosa, has changed. It also allows us to hold These microbes out number the cells in supragingival and subgingival hands with the past and “reach back” our body by 10 to one. If you considered this plaque and saliva). to a world experience very different collection of cells (your human microbiome ■ The skin (four sites sampled). from the one we know now. My mother and the cells that make up your body) as ■ The colon (one site sampled). and her classmates would not have some kind of super organism, then only ■ The urogenital/vagina had access to penicillin. Before its one tenth of that super organism would (three sites sampled).2 mass production in 1945, common be made up of cells from your body. The importance of the mouth childhood infections often resulted in When I fi rst learned that, I thought is clearly refl ected in the number death. Penicillin was a closely guarded I had at last found a satisfactory of sample sites selected. The oral secret that saved the lives of thousands explanation for my weight gain and a sites make up 50-60 percent of of allied forces during World War II.. potentially quick way to lose weight the total microbiome samples. My mother was 8 years old when by divesting myself of those weighty The oral environment is unlike Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928. microorganisms. It was disappointing any of the other sample sites in its The microbiology that my parents to fi nd that though our microbiome out variety of substrates. It has solid surfaces learned in school was not far removed numbers us in cell count, their tiny size (teeth, restorations of various materials, from Florence Nightingale’s miasmic means they account for no more than dentures, orthodontic appliances) theory of contagion. I am amazed by the three pounds per super organism. and shedding surfaces (keratinized chasm of ignorance that separated the The Human Microbiome project was and nonkeratinized mucosa). In simple renderings of bacteria in my high launched in 2008. Following on the heels addition, “saliva contains around school biology classes from the complex of the successful Human Genome Project, 100 million” microorganisms per microbial colonies we studied in dental its goal was to describe by identifying milliliter.2 The identifi cation of all of school. And today, I am fascinated by the and characterizing the community of the microorganisms in the oral sample descriptions of the microbial makeup and microorganisms that are associated is incomplete. Nor has verifi cation of interactions of the human microbiome. with the human body. The ultimate residence been completely established. The human microbiome is goal is to understand how the human Some numbers of the microorganisms “the ecological community of microbiome interacts with the human are transients, just passing through. commensal, symbiotic and pathogenic body in states of health and disease. In dental school, electron microscopy microorganisms that literally share our The human microbiome focused on rendered complex and beautiful the body space.”1 It is that collection of fi ve areas of the body. Male subjects were colonies of microorganisms in oral microorganisms that share our space sampled at a total of 15 sites and females plaque. However, those depictions look and have an association with us that: were sampled at a total of 18 sites.
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