Here’s the percentages which that graph is based from these are the ones that are known, not projections, these are the actual data from the national oral health survey. What i want you to look at is the trend here. So in 1979  across the encore  Australian population 15.4% roughly 1 in  7 people were […]

Putting that all together where does that get us? Well I’m going to give you some good news  this afternoon but so at    the news has all been couched in guarded terms. So tot this point we’ve found out that the situation of the patients medically is becoming more complex. We we i narrow […]

We think about dementia. I said that there are a lot of causes of dementia. Alzheimer’s is the biggest one, particularly in the 85 and overs but mostly infect dementia is very common as well. Patients have these little small gaps in memory. Particular in short term in memory and that will cause them to […]

Speaker 1: without any further  ado it gives me  great pleasure to again introduce another queens lander, Laurie Walsh or  Professor  , Lawrence  Walsh of the University of Queensland .  Laurie Walsh is a specialist in social needs dentistry. He is professor of dental society at the University of Queensland where he has been the […]

Another younger patient with what’s a sarcoma or a tumor of the bone end up with implants and a graft.  Removable, again, because in this case, you can see where these teeth are and how far down this bone is.  So, we needed to replace normally the teeth with the gum to make it look […]

Our preference for predictability in the back of the mouth is to actually use gold.  Not everybody likes that, but in the back of the mouth, for most of us dentists, gold is the gold standard.  There’s nothing better than gold in terms of how it behaves and how it responds, but not all of […]

Basically, what you see here is a patient who got only got two dental mini implants or two screws, and there’s a little gold bar that’s been made.  The inside of the denture has some clips, and these clips clamp onto that and allow this denture to be held in place very well.  So, it […]

It’s really boring.  You’ve got to sit there, and you watch this thing slowly going in.  You know, great, next.  Let’s get going.  It’s just the nature of you, and we have to patience.  We want everything done right away, but it’s absolutely critical that you do that. The drills that they use is very […]

Hi everybody!  It’s my pleasure to welcome you to the last meeting of Bionic Man & Woman and also a great pleasure to introduce Dr. Arun Sharma who has been here with you in the UC School of Dentistry for a number of years.  He wears an amazing number of hats.  He serves as professor […]