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April 16, 2015

Bitewing X Rays in Dental Diagnosis And Treatments

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Ralph C Dreher @ 1:27 AM

Bitewing radiography furnishes images of the crown, the top and bottom part of teeth on a single film. The photographic films that are used in this procedure give detailed information about the changes occurring by dental diseases. Bitewing radiography is usually done in a series of 4 films, which are placed on both sides of the mouth, thus examining the structures from the eye teeth, canines, etc.

As they show the crown of the tooth, bitewing X-rays are extremely helpful in determining tooth decay located in between teeth, various stages of gum disease and problems with tooth. Bitewings are also helpful for detecting a buildup of dental tartar and also bone loss due to periodontal disease. It is a quick and painless process, and the output is usually ready for the dentist to view within just a few minutes.

Steps followed while doing a dental checkup using bitewing X rays

  • The patient is allowed to seat in an upright position in the dental chair.
  • Patient is covered with a apron and thyroid collar.
  • A film is placed into the patient’s mouth using a holding device. It is important that the patient closes his or her teeth completely in their natural bite. The film has the shape of letter T, and is placed in the interior side of the jaw.
  • Once the film is in position, the operator directs the X-ray unit towards the film.
  • After directing the X-ray the film from the patient’s mouth is removed. This procedure may be repeated for different areas of the mouth as required.
  • Once the series of bitewing radiographs have been completed the films are sent for processing.
  • The films are assessed to determine whether all areas can be visualized adequately and are sent for final documentation.

Benefits

  • Dose of radiation is kept as low as possible in order to maximize diagnostic value and minimizing risk.
  • Bitewing radiographs provide the dental professionals with important information that is important in the diagnosis and treatment planning for patients.

Safety precautions to be followed while using bitewing radiographs

  • Low amount of radiation is used in this bitewing radiographs.
  • Due to the usage of low amount of radiation there are no side effects.
  • Patients should always be covered with a apron and no one else should be there in the room because the X rays are harmful.

Bitewing X-rays are an essential part of any dental care program. It is highly usefull in the diagnosis of tooth decay, periodontal diseases and gum diseases. These are widely used X-rays used comapred to other X-rays which are available.
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December 30, 2014

Major Employment Laws that You Should Know

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: , — Winson @ 5:23 AM

Whether you are a business owner or an employee, there are a few employment labor laws that you should know. These laws tell you of your rights and responsibilities in the organization. Ignoring these laws amounts to violation and may lead to serious actions sometimes. So, you should know at least the major employment laws, if you are a business owner or an employee. The purpose of this article is to make you know about a few major laws.

Wage laws
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is the law that sets the federal minimum wage or overtime pay. Minimum wage varies from state to state; and one thing that you should know here is, if the state has set higher minimum wage than the federal minimum wage, then it means that the higher minimum wage will be considered and will be in effect.

Over time pay is for any type of work done in excess to what has been legally set by the law. In general, under the federal law, the employer should pay the employees 1.5 times more than the normal wage for the hours worked more than 40 hours a week.

Discrimination laws
There are many discrimination laws under various state or federal laws such as – job discrimination, wage discrimination, age discrimination, disability discrimination, pregnancy discrimination, sexual discrimination or harassment, etc. So, the employees of an organization must be aware of such discrimination laws of their state; and if they have faced any type of discrimination under the associated acts, they can make a claim, accordingly.

Workplace safety law
Workplace safety comes under OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act). It requires employers for making the workplace free from recognized hazards (illness and injuries). Under this act, the employer of an organization have several responsibilities that must be taken care and make the workplace safe and secure. The employees also have many rights under this Act.

Leave laws
Under Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), different employees have different time periods or limits for availing the leave with job protection, based on the acts the employee belongs to. So, make sure that you are aware of the limits from your employer, before you take leave.

A note to make here is that these laws may differ from state to state and across the countries. So, ensure checking with your organization or your employer regarding the employment laws (state or federal).

These are the common major employment laws that an employer or employee should be aware of. It is recommended that an employer must have these labor law posters in their organization, to make the employees know about the facts of labor law.
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October 28, 2014

Benefits of Online Advertisement

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: — Ralph C Dreher @ 8:01 AM

Ad serverBefore the internet era, marketing and advertising was done in a way where much attempt and vigor was focused on market research and reaching to almost every potential customer. The methods of reach used to be primarily physical in nature through newspapers, brochures, hoardings, banners, television promos, etc. This involved a lot of resources and the process took a lot of time. Even after making all these attempts, success and anticipated results were not guaranteed.

With the boom of internet in the era of information technology, internet has proved to be a worthy platform to advertise brands. Advertising on world wide web ensures that almost everyone who has access to internet is able to view the ads posted by the brands. Almost every potential customer uses internet for one or the other purpose for a prolonged time.

Online advertising is beneficial in many ways
Online marketing is nowadays the most pursued method of advertising. This certainly is because of the numerous benefits that online advertising has to offer. Few of the major benefits are:

  • Cost effective
    The traditional or routine methods employed by marketing specialists involved a lot of manual work and resources. These used in the form of surveys, material for printing, renting the space for advertisements, paying for the printing and many more. This increases the cost of the advertising campaign and thereby increasing the cost of the product. Pursuing online marketing hence proves beneficial and cost effective for both the campaigner and the customer.
  • More geographic coverage
    With the help of online marketing, it is very easy to target vast geographical areas. In fact global exposure can be gained through internet marketing affecting different parts of the world. It is incredibly easy to establish brands and their recognition in customer community. In this way, internet marketing is helpful in covering local and international markets also.
  • Easy to target audience
    Traditional ways of marketing uses targeting methods that do not touch all spheres of customers effectively. Certain sections of customers are deprived of the product or brand information. Online marketing uses different tools like cookie tracking that tracks the internet usage behavior of a person and target him with the products as per his search and demographic considerations. This helps in targeting a most suitable customer for a specific product. Traditional way of marketing somewhere targets customers collectively to some degrees.
  • Easy to measure impacts
    Unlike the traditional marketing methods where the rate of success of the campaign is mostly determined by the amount of sales, more effective methods are present in the online marketing. There are lot of tools and methods to measure the success of online campaign. Accurate results can be obtained regarding the number of people visiting the website, number of people clicking on the web ads, no of viewers who watched the videos and people who liked and shared your products/services.
  • Speedy approach
    The traditional approach is slow and needs a lot of time for preparation of the event. The material has to be bought, it has to be printed, transported and set up at the venues. Online marketing is better than traditional marketing in this aspect. The process takes a little time designing the advertisement and posting it online takes no time.
  • Brand building
    Online marketing helps to a great deal in building the brand name and getting recognition in the customer community.

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August 22, 2014

Nanotechnology Microchip for Detecting Type 1 Diabetes

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: , , , — Ralph C Dreher @ 7:52 AM

Technology is being used in every profession including medical science. Recently, a microchip was created using the nanotechnology to detect Type 1 diabetes in patients. This is a big benefit for doctors because for detecting Type 1 diabetes doctors need to spend a lot of time as they go to identify the specific protein markers in blood. This may take days to weeks. But the recent research by Stanford university school of medicine came up with this nanotechnology chip. This chip can detect Type 1 diabetes within a very low time span – in minutes.

Type 1 diabetes
Type 1 diabetes is an immune disease, by which the immune system can affect the pancreas. By this the pancreas stops producing insulin – a hormone to process sugars. Early detection of Type 1 diabetes may benefit the patient.

Conventional method of using radio active material for testing Type 1 diabetes in patients takes several days for detecting the condition, and in the meanwhile the diseases may become severe. With nanotechnology chip, it is very easy to detect in minutes.

Nanotechnology chip for Type 1 diabetes
Besides the radio active material used in conventional methods of detecting Type 1 diabetes in patients, this nanotechnology chip produces results quickly. It takes a small amount of blood through a finger prick. For detecting the antibodies this microchip depends on fluorescence based method.

The base of the microchip is coated with nanoparticle-sized islands of gold which show the fluorescent signal. This enables the antibody detection. This test recognizes the auto-antibodies levels quickly before they show the symptoms. Even a single auto-antibody will make you get into risk.

With conventional methods, doctors can’t exactly detect the type of diabetes the patient has.
Stanford university researchers developed this wonderful technology, which benefits the patients in many ways and they are also trying to launch this in the market very soon.

Benefits of nanotechnology chip for Type 1 diabetes

  • It is an inexpensive method for detecting Type 1 diabetes.
  • It requires minimal training for the technique to be used and reduces the burden for physicians.
  • Detection of Type 1 diabetes using this technology takes only a few minutes when compared to conventional treatment which takes a few days.
  • Early detection is the main advantage of this technology.
  • This chip can be used for performing nearly 15 tests.
  • It takes a small amount of blood compared to conventional methods.

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July 30, 2014

Diode Laser – From Gum Diseases to Laser Root Canal Treatment

Filed under: 2014 — Tags: , — Ralph C Dreher @ 2:37 AM

Laser dentistry is an advanced technology in the dentistry. This technology existed from gum diseases to the root canal treatments. Dentistry is the home for laser technologies. It is not scary as the people imagine. Dentists enjoy the thrive of new technology.

Diode laser
Diode laser is a technology through which the patients are operated very smoothly in the soft tissues of the teeth. This is a compact device that generates a beam of light, which is focused on the targeted tissue of the mouth. When the light beam projects on that area it cuts away the damaged part by vaporizing it keeping safe the surrounding area. This also sterilizes the area and coagulates the blood vessels so that bleeding and infection will be in reduced amount. With this diode laser the traditional methods of drilling can be avoided which causes pain. There are several types of laser dentistry that includes hard tissues and soft tissues. The diode laser is mainly used to cut the soft tissues in the mouth. This laser can solve many problems like:

  • The diode laser can cure gum diseases. It removes the tissues affected and reshapes the gum. This improves the oral hygiene.
  • It any cancer sore occurs the diode laser reduces the pain and also reduces to not happen in the future again.
  • With diode laser, the gum reshaping can be done through soft tissue crown lengthening. This gives healthier root structure and also provides stronger base for the teeth.
  • With the diode laser, tooth whitening can be done in one hour.
  • Diode laser produces the pressure and heat to remove the infections in the teeth root with no drilling and hand files.

This treatment can be done without anesthesia and during the treatment the patient must use glasses to protect the eyes from radiations.

Benefits of diode laser treatment

  • The treatment is done in very less time
  • No side effects
  • Healing time is very less
  • This procedure causes less pain and bleeding or stitches
  • No local anesthesia is need to operate with this diode laser

Drawbacks:

  • Only the trained and experts can do this kind of treatments.
  • No dental insurance plans
  • It is expensive compared to the conventional methods.

This technology existed from many years and with this the patients and dentists will have many benefits.

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