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Anesthesia, Local/adverse effects , Brain Injuries, Traumatic , Headache/etiology , Dental Care , Female , Humans , Middle AgedABSTRACT
Physicians upset by limits imposed by the medicare system are getting a chance to spread their entrepreneurial wings on the East Coast. A boom in offshore exploration, led by Newfoundland's massive Hibernia project, has led to numerous business opportunities for physicians.
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Contract Services/organization & administration , Group Practice/economics , Insurance, Health, Reimbursement , Occupational Health Services/economics , Ships , Canada , Entrepreneurship , Gasoline , Group Practice/organization & administration , Humans , Industrial Oils , National Health Programs/organization & administration , Occupational Health Services/organization & administrationABSTRACT
This article describes how sedation can help to overcome some of the problems associated with the use of local anaesthesia for dentistry. It also reviews those problems where sedation is not the appropriate choice, and gives guidance on distinguishing the appropriate from the inappropriate, along with suggestions for how such cases might be managed.
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Anesthesia, Dental/adverse effects , Anesthesia, Local/adverse effects , Conscious Sedation/methods , Dental Anxiety/etiology , Adult , Anesthesia, Dental/methods , Anesthesia, Local/methods , Female , Humans , Male , Middle Aged , Syncope/etiology , Treatment FailureABSTRACT
Sedation should be considered as a useful part of the general dental practitioner's armamentarium and as an important alternative to general anaesthesia in selected cases. In this, one of a series of articles on the uses of sedation in various circumstances, the management of the gagging patient is discussed. The many factors involved in the aetiology of the hyperactive gag response are reviewed and measures for dealing with it suggested.
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Anesthesia, Dental/methods , Conscious Sedation , Gagging , Adaptation, Psychological , Adult , Dental Anxiety/etiology , Dental Anxiety/prevention & control , Female , Humans , Hypnosis, Dental , Male , Relaxation TherapyABSTRACT
Fear of HIV and AIDS has been the driving force in reducing physicians' use of blood and blood products. Nancy Robb interviewed doctors across the country to determine steps they are taking to lower the number of transfusions and discovered that transfusion medicine in Canada has undergone a sea change.
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Blood Transfusion, Autologous , Blood Transfusion/statistics & numerical data , Practice Patterns, Physicians'/statistics & numerical data , Blood Transfusion, Autologous/statistics & numerical data , Canada , Data Collection , Hemodilution , Humans , Transfusion ReactionSubject(s)
Complementary Therapies , Societies, Medical , Environmental Health , Humans , Nova ScotiaABSTRACT
Clinically, in modern populations, tooth wear can be differentiated into three main types--attrition, abrasion and erosion, acting either separately or together. Anthropologists generally have not recognized erosion as a factor affecting the teeth of past populations. This study compares the patterns of wear known to be associated with erosion in present-day dental patients with those found in some British, pre-Conquest, skeletons. It is concluded that erosion may have been a major factor causing the extensive tooth wear in some 20 of 151 individuals.