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How to Drink Flavored Water Without Damaging Your Teeth (Washington Post)

Flavor essences can cause significant tooth erosion

Gum Disease, Mortality Linked in Cirrhosis

Severity of periodontitis increases risk

FDA: Black Box Warning on Viscous Lidocaine for Teething

WASHINGTON -- Topical viscous lidocaine should not be used to treat infants' teething pain, the FDA said Thursday, emphasizing that teething pain generally needs no medicinal treatment.

Common Cause for Bruxism, Restless Legs, Migraine?

NEW ORLEANS -- About half of patients with restless legs syndrome (RLS) seen in a single neurology practice also qualified for diagnoses of bruxism and migraine, suggesting a possible common cause for these disorders, a researcher said here.

Latest Use for Botox: Teeth Grinding

茂禄驴NEW ORLEANS -- Patients who ground their teeth so hard during sleep that they required medical attention achieved significant relief from botulinum toxin shots, researchers said here.

Oral Shield Cuts Radiation to Normal Tissue

PHOENIX -- Patients with head and neck cancer had substantial sparing of oral mucosa when they used custom-made dental stents to shield normal tissue from radiation therapy, data from a small clinical series showed.