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    Saliva Proteins Could Help Detection Of Oral Cancer  Oct 3, 2008
    Wong, Hu and colleagues have been working as part of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR)'s Human Saliva Proteome Project, which focuses on identifying and cataloguing the proteomic components of saliva in healthy subjects ... 21, 2004) Scientists funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health, reported today taking a major step forward in using saliva to detect oral. (Science Daily)

    Genetic Profile Reveals Susceptibility To Cleft Palate  Sep 18, 2008
    The study was funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research of the National Institutes of Health. In addition to Dr. Vieira, other study authors are Toby G. McHenry, B.S., and Mary L. Marazita, Ph. (Science Daily)

    Jawbreakers? Taking Stress Out on Teeth  Aug 28, 2008
    Studies have found that between 5 percent and 12 percent of people suffer from facial pain, known as tempormandibular joint and muscle disorder (TMJD), which is often caused by teeth grinding, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Dr. Harold Menschel, whose Florida-based dental practice The TMJ l Pain Institute specializes in oral face pain, said that he's convinced the rising levels of stress have increased the number of cracked teeth he mends. (ABC News)

    St. Jude receives grants worth $688K  Aug 11, 2008
    The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research granted a new, $210,000 award to Paul K. Brindel, an associate member of the St. Jude Department of Biochemistry, for oral diseases and disorders research. Based in Memphis, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a leading pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children's catastrophic diseases. (Memphis Business Journal, TN)

    A Sweet Way to Shield Baby's Teeth  Jul 13, 2008
    The study, which was co-authored by researchers from the Marshall Islands Ministry of Health, was funded by the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and the HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau. Milgrom said none of the researchers have any financial ties to manufacturers of xylitol. (MEDLINEplus)

    Topical Oral Syrup Prevents Early Childhood Caries, Study Shows  Jul 8, 2008
    Funding was provided by HRSA Maternal and Child Health Bureau and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. This is a summary of an abstract entitled "Xylitol Topical Oral Syrup Prevents Early Childhood Caries: a RCT", by P. Milgrom et al., of the University of Washington, Seattle, and the Ministry of Health, Marshall Islands, presented July 5, 2008, in Hall D-E of the Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada, during the 86th General Session of the International... (Science Daily)

    How effective are dental referrals by primary care physicians?  Jul 5, 2008
    The study was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). About the International Association for Dental Research. (EurekAlert!)

    Good Dental Hygiene May Help Prevent Heart Infection  Jun 12, 2008
    The study was funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)

    Saliva Can Help Diagnose Heart Attack  Apr 17, 2008
    This research is supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)

    First Comprehensive Database Of Human Oral Microbiome Launched  Mar 28, 2008
    Now, grantees of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their international colleagues intend to solve this problem with the launch of the first comprehensive database of the oral microbiome, or the approximately 600 distinct microorganisms currently known to live in the mouth. See also. (Science Daily)

    Scientists launch first comprehensive database of human oral microbiome  Mar 27, 2008
    Now, grantees of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, and their international colleagues intend to solve this problem with the launch of the first comprehensive database of the oral microbiome, or the approximately 600 distinct microorganisms currently known to live in the mouth ... The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) is the Nations leading funder of research on oral, dental, and... (EurekAlert!)

    Periodontal Disease Can Lead To Gestational Diabetes, Study Shows  Mar 26, 2008
    The study was supported by a grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR). Adapted from materials provided by , via , a service of AAAS.. (Science Daily)

    Spit tests may soon replace many blood tests  Mar 26, 2008
    The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, funded the current study. The saliva proteome study represents a consortium effort with research teams at The Scripps Research Institute (John R. Yates III), University of Rochester, University of Southern California (Paul Denny), The University of California at San Francisco (Susan J. Fisher) and UC Los Angeles (David T. Wong, Joseph A. Loo). (EurekAlert!)

    British sink their teeth into debate over fluoride  Feb 15, 2008
    Today, two-thirds of the U.S. population and 43 of the 50 biggest U.S. cities have fluoride in their public drinking water, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health. "Fluoridation of the water supply here is quite provocative," acknowledged Carmel McHenry of the British Dental Association, which supports Johnson's proposal. (USA Today)

    Metro Briefs  Feb 15, 2008
    The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, a division of the National Institutes of Health, said the UI racked up more than $12 million in grants. Jeffrey Murray, a UI professor of neonatology, accounted for more than $5. (Daily Iowan, IA)

    Mouthwash test an easy way to screen for head and neck cancers  Jan 3, 2008
    The study was funded by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and National Cancer Institute and appears in the journal Clinical Cancer Research. Would you like to for our weekly. (News-Medical.net)

    Gargling Could Help Detect Cancer  Jan 3, 2008
    Personalize Your Medical News. PUTTING BREAKING MEDICAL NEWS INTO PRACTICE Thursday, January 03, 2008. (MedPage Today)

    Researchers seek to make cavity-causing bacteria self-destruct  Jan 3, 2008
    6 million fitness profiling grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Grant-funded projects will seek to create a catalogue of proteins that, along with FabM, can serve as targets for a multi-pronged attack on bacteria that tend to evolve around single-thrust treatments. (EurekAlert!)

    'Swish-and-spit' test accurate for cancer  Jan 1, 2008
    The study was funded by the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation, the Flight Attendant Medical Research Institute, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, and National Cancer Institute. Additional participants in the research include Andre Lopes Carvalho, Carmen Jeronimo, Michael M. Kim, Rui Henrique, Zhe Zhang, Mohammad O. Hoque, Steve Chang, Mariana Brait, Chetan S. Nayak, Wei-Wen Jiang, Quia Claybourne, Yutaka Tokumaru, Juna Lee, David Goldenberg, Elizabeth... (EurekAlert!)

    Price Of Lower-calorie Foods Rising Drastically, Researchers Find  Dec 8, 2007
    The project was supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in the National Institutes of Health. Adapted from materials provided by. (Science Daily)

    Brighter Smiles: Dental fun facts  Oct 25, 2007
    That would fund the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research for almost six years. A poll conducted in Michigan showed that Republicans, Protestants and women brush their teeth more often than Democrats, Catholics and men. (Georgetown Record, MA)

    USC researcher identifies stem cells in tendons that regenerate tissue in animal model  Sep 10, 2007
    The team included leading scientists from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Maryland School of Medicine. Songtao Shi, a researcher for USCs Center for Craniofacial Molecular Biology, a Division within the USC School of Dentistry, has published numerous studies on the role of stem cells in regeneration. (EurekAlert!)

    Air pollution could be a heartbreaker, study finds  Jul 28, 2007
    However, the tonsils may still be "easily accessible to HIV," warn researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research in Bethesda, Md. They conducted a study that found the tonsils - two pink lumps of lymphoid tissue on either side of the throat - contain exposed "molecules that may bind and entrap HIV." Even worse, the tonsils don't seem to have the same level of immune protection as the rest of the mouth and throat, according to the findings published in The... (Globe and Mail)

    Can the tonsils influence oral HIV transmission?  Jul 26, 2007
    Researchers led by Dr. Sharon M. Wahl, of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, NIH, examined this question by comparing the gene expression profiles of tonsils and oral gingiva ... This work was supported by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. (EurekAlert!)

    Nature's secrets yield new adhesive material  Jul 19, 2007
    As published in this weeks issue of the journal Nature, the scientists, supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR), part of the National Institutes of Health, have designed a synthetic material that starts with the dry adhesive properties of the gecko lizard and supplements it with the underwater adhesive properties of a mussel ... What if each synthetic gecko-inspired polymer, called a pillar, was coated with a man-made adhesive protein inspired by the... (EurekAlert!)

    Study shows cane sugar, corn sweeteners have similar effects on appetite  Jul 11, 2007
    " The study is authored by Dr. Pablo Monsivais, research fellow in the UW Nutritional Sciences Program, and co-authored by Drewnowski and UW graduate student Martine Perrigue. The Seattle investigators provided subjects with a beverage mid-morning, then tracked hunger, appetite and thirst for two hours, and then gave the study participants lunch. Cola beverages sweetened with sucrose or with two different types of high-fructose corn syrup were compared to an aspartame-sweetened diet cola, milk... (EurekAlert!)

    A threat withteeth in it  Jun 13, 2007
    An estimated 80 percent of American adults have some form of periodontal disease, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research at the National Institutes of Health. The main cause of gum disease is bacteria, which is found in plaque, a sticky, colorless film that constantly forms on the teeth and tongue. (San Diego Union-Tribune)

    Why Cisplatin Kills Breast Cancer Cells When Other Drugs Fail  Apr 24, 2007
    The study was supported by grants from the Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation, the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, the Tracey Davis Memorial Fund, and the Avon Foundation. Note: This story has been adapted from a news release issued by Massachusetts General Hospital. (Science Daily)

    Scientists Decode Genome Of Oral Pathogen  Apr 7, 2007
    This work was supported by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease. Macrina and Buck collaborated with other VCU researchers from the Philips Institute of Oral and Craniofacial Molecular Biology, the Center for the Study of Biological Complexity, the Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics. (Science Daily)

    NYUCD study links tooth decay and gum infections to ethnicity and country of origin  Mar 25, 2007
    Dr. Cruzs research was funded by a grant from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, part of the National Institutes of Health. His coinvestigators were Dr. Yu Chen, an Assistant Professor of Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine; Dr. Christian R. Salazar, a student in Epidemiology at NYU College of Dentistry; and Dr. Racquel Z. LeGeros, Professor and Associate Chair of Biomaterials and Biomimetics and Linkow Professor of Implant Dentistry at NYU College of... (EurekAlert!)

    Bacteria from patient's dental plaque causes ventilator-associated pneumonia  Mar 24, 2007
    The presentation is part of a three-year longitudinal, double-blind study funded by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research and headed by Frank A. Scannapieco, D.D.S., Ph. D., professor and chair of the Department of Oral Biology. (EurekAlert!)

    IADR/AADR meeting to highlight dental practice-based research  Mar 24, 2007
    Representatives from the Scottish Network and the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research Networks will discuss the challenges and opportunities, recruitment, training, and study development in their PBRNs. An informal panel discussion will include representatives from Practice-based Research in the United States and Scotland. (EurekAlert!)

    Saliva Tests Making Their Way to Routine Care  Mar 22, 2007
    To develop the saliva-based screens, Wong has teamed up with researchers at the U.S. National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research; the University of California, San Francisco; and the Scripps Research Institute. Together, the team is engaged in a painstaking mapping of so-called "diagnostic alphabets" present in saliva. (Health-Finder)

    Periodontal disease can have ugly consequences  Mar 3, 2007
    Its presence has been correlated with heart disease, stroke, less manageable diabetes, and respiratory diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis and emphysema, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Recently, a study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School of 51,000 male health professionals found men with gum disease had a 63 percent higher chance of having pancreatic cancer. (The Standard-Times, MA)

    Besides tooth loss, periodontal problems have been linked to systemic illnesses  Feb 27, 2007
    Its presence has been correlated with heart disease, stroke, less manageable diabetes, and respiratory diseases like pneumonia, bronchitis and emphysema, according to the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Recently, a study conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School of 51,000 male health professionals found men with gum disease had a 63 percent higher chance of having pancreatic cancer, even if they had never smoked. (Newsday -- Health)

    Center in Newton looks to profit by banking stem cells from baby teeth  Jan 25, 2007
    "It's a convenient source of stem cells, but until we can see what we can make out of them, it's too early to say whether people should be banking dental stem cells," said Pamela Gehron Robey , chief of the Craniofacial and Skeletal Disease Branch of the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. Robey said she is "confident" dental stem cells can be coaxed to develop into dentin, the material in the center of a tooth that surrounds nerve cells and blood vessels. (Boston Globe)



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