No Increased Mercury Release from Dental Restorations at 1.5T, 3T, or 7T MRI.

Purpose: Dental amalgam contains mercury and is commonly used in dental restorations. The impact of MRI on mercury excretion from dental amalgam is not well understood across clinical field strengths, especially 7T. We investigated the effects of MRI exposure on mercury excretion using fresh, lab-created dental amalgam restorations and in extracted teeth with old, pre-existing restorations.

Education Solutions to the Medical-Dental Divide.

Arbitrarily cordoning off the mouth from the rest of the body is the educational approach that, since 1840, has been responsible for the medical-dental schism that persists today, preventing oral health's integration with overall health. This divide has also thwarted oral disease prevention initiatives, access to services, and health equity. This article offers an educational plan for reunifying medicine and dentistry, which involves interprofessional education, dual degree training, integrating oral health into medical education, and integrated residency training.

Implementation of a Scholarly Activity Program in a Small Academic Medical Center Department.

Small departments within academic medical centers have fewer numbers of clinicians, less time devoted to research, and fewer staff with senior faculty academic ranks available as mentors. This report describes the rationale behind Mayo Clinic's Department of Dental Specialties' scholarly activity program, implemented to combine mentorship with scholarship provided in a variety of formats. Program objectives focused on providing mentorship, disseminating existing scholarship, and bringing a diversity of scholarly activities into departmental mainstream.

Interdisciplinary rehabilitation of a primary intraosseous carcinoma including orthodontic archform management.

Squamous cell carcinomas arising from keratocystic odontogentic tumors are a rare phenomenon in head and neck cancer, accounting for only 1.45% of oral squamous cell carcinomas, and are classified as primary intraosseous carninomas. This cancer is locally aggressive, has a high potential for recurrence, and requires radical resection and subsequent rehabilitation.

Facial Versus Skeletal Landmarks for Anterior-Posterior Diagnosis in Orthognathic Surgery and Orthodontics: Are They the Same?

Purpose: The purpose of this investigation was to evaluate diagnostic agreement in anterior-posterior (AP) categorization of the maxilla and mandible between a skeletal-landmark analysis and a facial-landmark analysis for treatment planning of orthognathic surgery and orthodontics.

Materials And Methods: This retrospective, consecutive case series of adult patients who presented to the Mayo Clinic orthodontic department compared maxillary and mandibular AP diagnoses. Steiner's analysis of the sella-nasion-A point angle and sella-nasion-B point angle was used for a skeletal-landmark diagnosis.

A Small-Group Stratified-Learner Modification of Team-Based Learning (SGSL-TBL) for Resident Education.

Providing learner-specific didactic instruction to a small group of residents can be a challenge in postdoctoral education programs. To date, no data has been published reporting Team-Based Learning (TBL) outcomes when modified for a small group of resident learners, nor on stratifying information presented to learners based on postgraduate year (PGY). Stratification of the advance assignment appears effective as each individual resident outperformed their peers on information assigned to their training level.