Dental therapy myths

Myths of dental surgery in patients receiving anticoagulant therapy.

BACKGROUND Continuous anticoagulant therapy with warfarin is administered to prevent a variety of medical complications, including thromboembolisms and stroke. When patients receiving continuous anticoagulant therapy are scheduled for dental surgery, a decision must be made whether to continue or interrupt the anticoagulant therapy. METHODS The author reviewed the literature, focusing on dent...

Testosterone therapy in women: myths and misconceptions.

Although testosterone therapy is being increasingly prescribed for men, there remain many questions and concerns about testosterone (T) and in particular, T therapy in women. A literature search was performed to elucidate the origin of, and scientific basis behind many of the concerns and assumptions about T and T therapy in women. This paper refutes 10 common myths and misconceptions, and prov...

Bisexuality in Women: Myths, Realities, and Implications for Therapy

Cognitive therapy in sick building syndrome: Myths, believes or evidence.

With interest, we read a recently published article by Vuokko et al. (2015) involving indoor air problems. We thank the authors for raising very important questions related to multiple health problems caused by poor indoor air. Currently, Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) is not considered as an enigmatic condition (Zhang et al., 2012). On the contrary, it has gained a lot of interest from immunolog...

Ozone Therapy in Dental Practice

Atmospheric air is made up of nitrogen (71%), oxygen (28%) and other gasses (1%) including ozone which is altered by processes related to altitude, temperature and air pollution.1,2 Ozone (O3) is a gas with a characteristic, penetrating odour that is present in small amounts in atmospheric air. Ozone molecules are composed of three oxygen atoms and present naturally in the upper layer of atmosp...