Dentists

Periodontics - supporting structures of teeth, diseases, and conditions that affect them. The supporting tissues are known as theperiodontium, which includes the gingiva (gums), alveolar bone, cementum, and the periodontal ligament.

Endodontics - Endodontists perform a variety of procedures including root canal therapy, endodontic retreatment, surgery, treating cracked teeth, and treating dental trauma. 

Oral & Maxillofacial - is surgery to correct a wide spectrum of diseases, injuries and defects in the head, neck, face, jaws and the hard and soft tissues of the oral and maxillofacial region.

Orthodontics - treatment of malocclusions (improper bites), which may be a result of tooth irregularity, disproportionatejaw relationships, or both.


Pediatrics - ok

Antihistamine - Allergy Medications

There are many over counter antihistamine medications,


First-generation antihistamines

Benadryl - diphenhydramine (),  - It works on the dogs too (1 lb = 1 mg, apply dosage per 8 hours)

brompheniramine (Dimetapp, Bromphen, Dimetane, Nasahist),
chlorpheniramine (Chlor-Trimeton),
clemastine (Allerhist, Tavist),

Second-generation antihistamine
Claritin -Loratadine ().  - Kirkland /Walmart Equate brands
Zyrtec -cetirizine (),


Zyrtec-D® (cetirizine HCl 5 mg/pseudoephedrine HCl 120 mg) Tablets

desloratadine (Clarinex), and 

fexofenadine (Allegra). 

Knowing Your Heart

Everyone, including myself, is uncertain about our own heart condition. Healthy people can die at every young age. Some doctors died in the late forties and early fifty - they should know better about their body, right?. What had cause the heart attacks without warning?

When ever we complaint about chest pains. Doctors prescribe EKG - electrocardiography - and CT scans, So what exactly do they check?

EKG - a transthoracic interpretation of the electrical activity of the heart over time (looking for irregular heart beat? looking for open/closing of heart valves?)

CT scan - looking for calcifications (calcium based) within/around the heart and blood vessels. The blood vessel plaque causes the "narrowing vessel", "harden the blood vessel" reducing blood flow? - The detaching plaque from blood vessel - can causing blood clog in the brain (leading to strokes)?

Here are the standard and two new blood tests,

Cholesterol/Fatty blood test -
HDL, high density lipoprotein (good cholesterol) - low HDL count - actually increased rates for heart diease
LDL, low density lipoprotein (bad cholesterol)
triglycerides, fatty substance found in the blood,

Homocysteine - ($50 blood test -in 2006) - A high level of blood serum homocysteine a often linked to cardiovascular disease according to a doctor. Is it a sure thing? Who knows

Cardio High Sensitivity (CRP) - C-Reactive Protein ($40 blood test - in 2006) - Mildly elevated CRP levels have been consistently been linked to increased risk for various cardiovascular illness - stroke, sudden cardiac death.

Well, EKG - CT are physical, detectable sign of heart problems, where as the blood tests -
CRP, Homocysteine, or cholesterol test are precursor of detectable signs of heart problems.

► Sin Free Without Leprosy

Leprosy was used to symbolize sins in the Bible, see Matthews 8:2. The term “Leprosy” was mentioned 68 times – according to my PocketPC Bible study guide – running on Windows Mobile 6.1 AT&T HTC Tilt smart phone. I presume the term “Leprosy” was referring to the infectious skin disease.

I searched the Internet for photos on leprosy, some of the symptoms were pretty disgusting, and others were more bearable to watch. Reading the bible passage, I had an impression that leprosy was common illness in the past, but how did we discover treatment and eliminated the disease among us.

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Dr. Gerhard Armauer Hansen, a Norwegian scientist, first discovered the Mycobacterium leprae , the cause of leprosy in 1873. Antibiotics like rifampin, dapsone, and clofazimine are used in combination to treat leprosy – bacteria – aka Hansen’s disease.

Here is the interesting part - Mycobacterium leprae are part of the family Mycobacteriaceae. This is the same family as the bacteria that cause tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis). Can one associate densely populated developing nations with the epidemic spread of TB and leprosy?

From http://diseases.emedtv.com/leprosy/leprosy.html

Quote #1 “The number of new leprosy cases detected worldwide was 763,917; 96 cases occurring in the United States were reported to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC)”

Quote #2 “The World Health Organization (WHO) listed Brazil, Madagascar, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Nepal as having 90 percent of leprosy cases that year. “

It’s shocking statistic to me, that over763,000 new leprosy cases were detected in 2002. In a world population growth of 75-80 million/year, it translates the leprosy infection rate of 1 in 100. Wow – tuberculosis and leprosy aren’t going away anytime soon.