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Currently, the only thing dentists can do to treat gum disease is prescribe a remedy of increased hygiene and sometimes painful surgery. Researchers at the Harvard Dental School, who are experimenting with a novel drug treatment, hope to change that...
Associate Professor Ray C. Williams and his research group have been studying the drug, flurbiprofen, in an attempt to treat periodontal disease--which causes bone loss around the teeth and inflammation of gum tissue...
While the use of drug therapy to treat periodontal disease is still in the research stage, Williams said he hopes it will one day be used to supplement conventional methods of treatment...
...will be important to determine how this type of drug compares with conventional mechanical treatment and how it may advance the dentist's ability to treat the disease," he said...
...noted that both Asian Americans and white applicants received positive weight for athletic "tips." There was not evidence in the Summary Sheets to suggest that the implementation of athletic preference or "tip" was in any way designed to negatively treat or affect Asian Amer can applicants...