Tinnitus is a common symptom of TMJ, perhaps the most common after jaw pain and headaches. However, some people are sceptical that jaw problems can actually cause disturbance in your hearing. Now a new approach to restoring hearing to the deaf shows just how intimately our jaws and ears [...]
For more than 30 years now, people have been putting smiles in their emails using emoticons such as :) (and their history is even older than that) but do emoticons count as true smiles? Researchers now say there is some evidence that the brain recognises and interprets emoticons using the same processes it uses for [...]
Controversy over e-cigarette safety and their effectiveness as a stop-smoking aid continues, with e-cigarette manufacturers floating stories that a potential nationwide ban of smoking is being considered, and that's why the safety is being researched by government-funded labs. These articles used to be very marginal, but recently they made the Sydney Morning Herald, prompting a [...]
The didgeridoo is an instrument that people seem to either love or hate. Either you find yourself entranced by the droning rhythms, or they just get on your nerves. For lovers of the instrument, news that playing it might improve sleep apnoea symptoms and reduce risk is likely just so much more sweet [...]
One of the potential challenges to getting dental implants is when periodontal disease that led to the loss of your tooth also led to the loss of significant bone mass around the dental implant site. This requires a bone graft to give you the necessary bone to support your dental implant. [...]
