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Hi Todd, Perhaps, a definite maybe....it might depend upon what the temporary filling was used for and if the underlying reason could be problematic. Some reasons for a temporary filling: 1) Something to keep the food out after a permanent filling broke and before it could be fixed...

Hi grunzster, Don't worry, I'm not gonna pick on you again. Sorry for thinking it was a week and a half. I looked at todays date and the date you said your appointment was. Just hope you realize that the inconvience of a seemingly simple Rx is much more complicated. It's important to...

grunzster, Let me give you a little perspective on why your doctor, who has never met you, requires you to fill out a questionaire and have an examination. It is both unethical and illegal for a doctor to write prescriptions for patients that have no history at that office. This is...

Fivetide, Relax. This type of dive related condition is VERY rare. If the fillings and root canal have been done properly, you have almost no chance of a problem. You might want to check with your dentist who did the root canal and make sure that there is no cotton ball sealed within the...

Hi Jorgen, The proper English translation for gum retreat is gingival recession. There are a variety of causes of this condition: 1) Gum disease with bone loss/infection 2) Improper tooth position/malocclusion 3) Trauma 4) Orthodontic treatment (braces) 5) Clenching or...

Thanks guys, I stand corrected. I checked the pointer I have at home. Is is a Class IIIa rated at 4mW. What I don't understand is that the pointers I seem to remember being rated at <.5mW. Either I'm going blind, having a senior moment or they did have that rating. Sooooo...simply use...

Er...what is the correct power rating? I was under the impression that it was correct as listed on the device. Larry Stein

The IIIa pointer is plenty bright in seminars...even if the room is not dark. On a brightly sunlit day, it is dim but then again you are probably not giving a seminar with a powerpoint presentation on the dive boat. Direct viewing can injure the eye so don't treat "eye herpes" :11...

The closest experience to narcosis is breathing nitrous oxide at the dentist's office. Please don't call your friendly, neighborhood dentist and beg for laughing gas. It will not produce any tolerance to nitrogen narcosis. Some narcosis tolerance seems to occur with repeated deeper...

The red laser is the color that seems to work with the cold sores. 620-680 nanometers. The laser pointers available at most stores are battery operated and produce LESS than .5mW. 20mW is 40 times more energy. The red lasers are about $20 US—which is cheaper than the Rx for the same problem...

Hi Mona, Good question. If it were me, I wouldn't mix the two. You can get an antihistamine effect from either...although the degree of its effect can be variable. More important, the diminished cognitive function would be a good reason NOT to use Dramamine or Meclizine. You don't want...

DBaily, Yup...that's the device...a $20 laser pointer. Application: Expose the entire area overlapping onto health tissue. All parts of the affected area should get about a 30 second exposure...even up to a minute. The ideal time to begin treatment is at the first sign of tingling. If...

Hi Sylvester, You might want to think of Meclizine and Dramamine as "cousins". They are both classified as antihisamines. This class of drugs "target" histamine receptors which, when stimulated by histamine released from local tissues in response to exposure to substances that initiate an...

Don't count on it. Ask you MD anyway I wouldn't be to optimistic. I would be leary of success on a chronic condition. Edit: Ugh! where's my head at???? If you have oral sores, then, yes this might be palliative. I was thinking intestinal...guess we know...

gchapman, Hi, Here is a link for low level laser therapy in Dentistry: http://www.laser.nu/lllt/Laser_therapy_%20in_dentistry.htm Before this discussion continues ( I find it very interesting) let me say that when I read the different sites, some of information is so remarkable...

archman, Hurrah! I'm not a quack! At my practice the laser pointer is amazing. It usually stops cold sores in their tracks (when caught early enough). BTW, a canker sore and a cold sore are different. The cold sore (herpes labalis) is causes by a virus (herpes simplex). It generally...

2red and Duane S., IMHO, I don't believe it is possible or appropriate for this board to render an opinion as to whether treatment was appropriate or timely. No one was present at this treatment and even if they were, they were not the treating physicians or EMTs. Any information is after...

Er...what are we missing here? Why was he in the hospital for a month? Certainly not just for recompression. Laurence Stein, DDS :11:

Hi 2red, I have has the "pleasure" of being treated in a recompression chamber. So I have some experience to draw some conclusions from. I'm sure you are taught to try to recompress as quickly as possible but putting someone into the chamber isn't like putting bread in a toaster. You...

I hope I don't upset all those that replied...Defogs, either detergents, toothpastes, soaps, alcohols, or glycerine work not because they clean the mask (although they do clean the surface as well) but because, as a surfactant, they decrease surface tension. Drops or microdrops of water do not...