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3D Printed Temporomandibular Joints Australian First

It was the first time anyone in the world had ever received a 3D printed titanium jaw joint. A month ago, a 32-year-old from Melbourne who had suffered an injury to the jaw as a child had his jaw joint replaced. Now we know this is just the first of many such applications to come. [...]

Causal Link Found Between Gum Disease and Heart Disease

For a long time, there was debate about whether gum disease caused heart disease or if they were just correlated because of common risk factors (obesity, diabetes, smoking, etc.). We are increasingly finding that the evidence says gum disease actually causes heart disease. We know that Gum Treatment Helps Indigenous Australians’ Health

We Follow Best Hygiene Practices

Like everyone else, we found the infection scare that may have put so many Sydney dental patients in our community at risk very disturbing. We want all our patients -- and those who might become our patients -- to know that at My Hills Dentist, we take sterilization very seriously and follow best hygiene practices [...]

Triceratops Teeth Helped Them Spread to Australia

This week, Jurassic World stayed at the top of the box office, despite strong competition from a pair of children's movies (Minions and Inside Out). Although in the movie, we marveled at the teeth of predatory dinosaurs like the raptors and the newly engineered Indominus rex, in real paleontology we have recently learned that it's [...]

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