Monthly Archives: June 2023

Dentists and their assistants were accustomed to performing dental procedures in the 1980s without the use of gloves and medical masks, but they took care after the outbreak of HIV… Read more »

The first association of dental assistants was founded in 1923 by Juliet Southard and was called the American Association of Dental Assistants and is still in existence to this day…. Read more »

The pioneering dentist, Charles Edmund Kells, appointed his first dental assistant. Male dentists initially dominated the field of dentistry, but after the introduction of the profession of dental assistant, women… Read more »

Dental assistants assist the dentist in providing dental treatment more efficiently, by preparing the patient for treatment, sterilizing instruments, passing instruments during the procedure, holding suction devices, preparing dental radiographs,… Read more »

The electrical activity of the heart can be recorded using surface electrodes on the surface of the body. This tracking of electrical signals is called an electrocardiogram, or ECG, for… Read more »

Blood tests play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of many cardiovascular conditions. Tropin is a cardiac biomarker that is very sensitive to impaired cardiac blood supply, being… Read more »

Heart disease is diagnosed by taking a medical history and physical examination, and some further investigations include blood tests, echocardiography, electrocardiogram, and cardiogram. Other procedures, such as cardiac catheterization, may… Read more »

The heart can also be affected by congenital diseases. These diseases include failure to close the oval hole, which occurs in 25% of people, [65] defects of the atrial or… Read more »

Diseases may affect the pericardium surrounding the heart. When the pericardium becomes infected, an inflammatory condition is called pericarditis. Pericarditis may result from infectious causes (such as glandular fever, cytomegalovirus,… Read more »

Abnormalities in the normal sinus rhythm can prevent the heart from pumping blood effectively and can often be identified on an electrocardiogram. Arrhythmias can cause an abnormal but regular heart… Read more »