The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery was charted in 1840 by the General Assembly of Maryland, formalizing education for students interested in the practice of dentistry. It is necessary to clean between your teeth daily using dental floss or an interdentally cleaner even if you brush regularly. Toothbrush bristles can’t reach between teeth where bacteria can linger, causing decay and gum disease. Regular flossing can remove the food particles and plaque from between teeth and under the gum line where your tooth brush cannot reach. Uncontrolled diabetes increases risk of periodontal disease. Patients with diabetes should try to reduce cholesterol and serum triglyceride levels through diet and exercise. Although individual doctors had frequently doubted Galen’s authority on specific points, it was the Flemish anatomist Andreas Vesalius (1514-64) who showed the inadequacies and inaccuracies of Galen in his book De Humani Corporis Fabrica (‘On the Fabric of the Human Body’). It … Read the rest
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