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04/24/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

A simple trip to the dentist caused one man to have a life-threatening heart infection

What was supposed to be a routine dental check-up turned out to be the cause of a man’s near brush with death by way of infection. According to the case report, published in the New England of Journal of Medicine, a 27-year-old man in Vancouver, Canada, went to the emergency complaining of a lump on […]

09/07/2017 / By Russel Davis

60 percent of toothbrushes found to be contaminated with fecal bacteria

A 2015 study has indeed confirmed that toothbrushes may brood harmful pathogens such as enteric bacteria and pseudomonads. According to the study, enteric bacteria are normally found in the guts and help facilitate glucose fermentation and nitrate conversion into nitrites. On the other hand, pseudomonas are gram-negative aerobic bacteria that can be found in soil, water, plants and […]

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