A proof of principle investigation of a novel enzyme formulation on dental calculus deposition: a 4-week randomized human clinical trial [PDF]
BMC Oral HealthBackground The dissolution of dental calculus, safely and at home, is among the more challenging issues facing the over-the-counter healthcare industry. Pontis Biologics, Inc.
Kimberly R. Milleman +5 more
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Direct evidence of plant consumption in Neolithic Eastern Sudan from dental calculus analysis [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThe Neolithic communities of Eastern Sudan combined intensive pastoralism with plant exploitation as their main subsistence strategies. However, to date, it remains unclear which plant species were part of the human diet during the Neolithic.
Giusy Capasso +4 more
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Ancient dental calculus reveals oral microbiome shifts associated with lifestyle and disease in Great Britain. [PDF]
Nat Microbiol, 2023 Gancz AS +12 more
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Multi-omic detection ofMycobacterium lepraein archaeological human dental calculus [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Biological Sciences, 2020 Mineralized dental plaque (calculus) has proven to be an excellent source of ancient biomolecules. Here we present a Mycobacterium leprae genome (6.6-fold), the causative agent of leprosy, recovered via shotgun sequencing of sixteenth-century human ...
Anna K. Fotakis +12 more
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Quantitative metaproteomics of medieval dental calculus reveals individual oral health status
Nature Communications, 2018 Mineralized plaque, or dental calculus, is a valuable reservoir of the ancient oral microbiome. Here, the authors use quantitative metaproteomics to analyze the dental calculus of 21 individuals from a medieval cemetery, identifying human and microbial ...
Rosa R. Jersie-Christensen +11 more
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Genes, 2021 Recent advantages in paleomicrobiology have provided an opportunity to investigate the composition of ancient microbial ecologies. Here, using metagenome analysis, we investigated the microbial profiles of historic dental calculus retrieved from ...
Alisa Kazarina +7 more
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Dental calculus - oral health, forensic studies and archaeology: a review. [PDF]
Br Dent J, 2022 Dental calculus is recognised as a secondary aetiological factor in periodontal disease, and being a prominent plaque retentive factor, it is routinely removed by the dental team to maintain oral health.
Forshaw R.
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Beyond dirty teeth: Integrating dental calculus studies with osteoarchaeological parameters. [PDF]
Quat Int, 2023 Radini A, Nikita E.
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Heritage-specific oral microbiota in Indigenous Australian dental calculus. [PDF]
Evol Med Public Health, 2022 Background and objectives Aboriginal Australians and Torres Strait Islanders (hereafter respectfully referred to as Indigenous Australians) experience a high burden of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs).
Handsley-Davis M +7 more
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Aragonite toothpaste for management of dental calculus: A double-blinded randomized controlled clinical trial. [PDF]
Clin Exp Dent Res, 2022 Aragonite from animal origin such as cuttlefish bone powder is an abrasive with hardness properties ideal for calculus removal. The purpose of this randomized controlled trial was to test the efficacy of a cuttlebone‐derived aragonite toothpaste in ...
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