Picking a dentist is like buying a pair of running shoes. There are three qualities that factor into good shoes: comfort, quality and flexibility. These same qualities can also be applied to finding a great dentist. In Puyallup, Dr. Ngo and his staff offer comfortable, quality and flexible dental care. How do people usually decide if they want to purchase something, especially apparel? They look at what other people are saying because the majority of consumers trust other consumers who have bought the same product. In the health care industry, it's patients who ...

While plantar fasciitis might be one of the most common foot problems, this doesn't mean that one type of treatment works best for everyone. It's normal for patients to respond differently to treatment, which is why the doctors at the Foot & Ankle Institute utilize a number of solutions for plantar fasciitis. One may ask, what is plantar fasciitis? It's commonly refereed to as "heel pain," but the formal name comes from plantar fascia, which is the band of tissue that connects the toes to the heel bone. The heel pain is caused by irritation of the plantar fascia, ...

The majority of the U.S. population owns some type of electronic device. From phones to desktop computers, people use these devices to access the Internet, and accessing the Internet is a means to finding information. It's give-and-take. For the Foot & Ankle Medical Group, their website is intended to act as a library. Patients can find information related to the practice as well as read general podiatry topics. "We realized an online presence is becoming the best way for patients to seek out general questions and concerns. If they have a specific foot problem, ...

People know that dentists take care of their teeth, but patients don't always know how dental professionals go about doing it. Once decay or dental trauma sets in, preventative care isn't going to fix it, but restorative dentistry can get the job done. At Dr. Harris' dental practice, he offers services in three different areas: general, cosmetic and restorative dentistry. Restorative dentistry encompasses treatments such as dentures, dental implants, fillings, dental crowns and dental bridges. Dental crowns and fillings are intended to restore the natural tooth while ...

The weather isn't the only thing that changes with a new season. Contemporary Family Dental Care has been under a slight construction and just recently revealed their new office! "We're a growing practice, so we needed a little extra leg room. And there were other dental essentials we added to the new space. Our practice is fully equipped to handle any dental need that comes our way," says Dr. Dykstra, Grand Rapids dentist at Contemporary Family Dental Care. General dental office areas include a waiting room, reception area, checkout, restrooms and so forth. However, ...

Many people will never experience a broken bone. It's a less common incident, which is why it's considered an emergency. The same can't be said for dental emergencies. Teeth and gums are put in harms way every day. The food and drinks people consume can produce bacteria and acid that are harmful to tooth enamel. "People consider cavities a common dental problem, not an emergency. However, certain stages of tooth decay can be considered a major concern, especially if a tooth's structure is damaged due to severe dental decay. Ignoring dental hygiene practices at home ...

In recent years, missing permanent teeth are more often being permanently replaced by dental implants-a type of restorative procedure. Unlike dentures and dental bridges, dental implants require a surgical incision into the gum tissue and jawbone, so a dentist can place the screw-like implant. This allows for the jawbone cells to attach to the implant, the process also known as osseointegration. The advantages of a dental implant include permanence, esthetic appeal, comfort and convenience. A patient can treat it with care just like his/her natural teeth, and the jawbone ...

Holiday Inn Express Simpsonville Hotel offers affordable lodging to guests attending the Casting Crowns concert in Greenville, South Carolina. The event will be held April 19 at Bon Secours Wellness Arena in downtown Greenville. The Grammy and Dove Award winning contemporary Christian group is currently on tour promoting their new album "Thrive". They will be joined by popular Christian recording artists Laura Story and Colton Dixon. "We are pleased to welcome guests attending the Casting Crowns concert on April 19 at Bon Secours Wellness Arena," shares Greg Carpenter, ...

Hampton Inn & Suites Atlanta Galleria Hotel, near Smyrna, GA, offers affordable lodging to guests attending The Atlanta Opera - The Barber of Seville. The performances are sung in Italian with projected English translation. Music is by Gioachino Rossini. The shows will be held at the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre in Atlanta on: - April 26 at 8:00pm - April 29 at 7:30pm - May 2 at 8:00pm - May 4 at 3:00pm "We look forward to welcoming guests attending 2014 performances by The Atlanta Opera," explains Sabrina Claiborne, a manager at the Hampton Inn and Suites ...

Each spring, the Easter season encourages reflection for many. The Overflow Project a small non-profit based in Seattle is inviting people to respond this Easter by taking part in its annual 50-Day Challenge to simplify, give, and change lives. Through the 50-Day Challenge, participants come together to overflow with support for a community in East Africa. "The Overflow Project doesn't ask you to only write a check to help people in need," said Brian Wolters, founder and executive director of The Overflow Project. "Instead we encourage people to intentionally live on ...

The website Qosy.co was launched today by digital marketing agency, Venture Harbour, to make home furnishing and discovering luxury items easier and more interactive for shoppers wishing to enjoy the finer things in life. The website launched today with a basic beta-version, which features a full-screen area where users can scroll through inspirational interior design photographs - and click through to buy items that they wish to add to their homes. Conceptually, Qosy intends to become a comprehensive online catalogue that enlists products from popular high-end retailers. ...

A survey of emergency contraceptive pills in Peru found that 28 percent of the batches studied were either of substandard quality or falsified. Many pills released the active ingredient too slowly. Others had the wrong active ingredient. One batch had no active ingredient at all. To detect the fake drugs, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology developed a sophisticated approach using mass spectrometry to quickly assess suspected counterfeit drugs and then characterize their chemical composition. The study's results highlight a growing concern for women's ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (April 21, 2014) -- A group of scientists from the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and the Sanders-Brown Center on Aging has found interesting new information in a study on depression and neuropsychological function in Parkinson's disease (PD). Published in the journal Psychiatry Research, the study, which assessed cognitive function in depressed and non-depressed patients with PD, found that the dopamine replacement therapy commonly used to treat motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease was associated with a decline in cognitive performance among ...

Harvard researchers have succeeded in creating quantum switches that can be turned on and off using a single photon, a technological achievement that could pave the way for the creation of highly secure quantum networks. Built from single atoms, the first-of-their-kind switches could one day be networked via fiber optic cables to form the backbone of a "quantum Internet" that allows for perfectly secure communications, said Professor of Physics Mikhail Lukin, who led a team consisting of graduate student Jeff Thompson and post-doctoral fellow Tobias Tiecke to construct ...

For decades, scientists have used techniques like X-ray crystallography and nuclear magnetic resonance imaging (NMR) to gain invaluable insight into the atomic structure of molecules, but such efforts have long been hampered by the fact that they demand large quantities of a specific molecule and often in ordered and crystalized form to be effective – making it all but impossible to peer into the structure of most molecules. Harvard researchers, however, say those problems may soon be a thing of the past. A team of scientists, led by Professor of Physics and of Applied ...

Protecting wildlife while feeding a world population predicted to reach 9 billion by 2050 will require a holistic approach to conservation that considers human-altered landscapes such as farmland, according to Stanford researchers. Wildlife and the natural habitat that supports it might be an increasingly scarce commodity in a world where at least three-quarters of the land surface is directly affected by humans and the rest is vulnerable to human-caused impacts such as climate change. But what if altered agricultural landscapes could play vital roles in nurturing wildlife ...

Harvard neuroscientists have made a discovery that turns 160 years of neuroanatomy on its head. Myelin, the electrical insulating material long known to be essential for the fast transmission of impulses along the axons of nerve cells, is not as ubiquitous as thought, according to a new work lead by Professor Paola Arlotta of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) and the University's Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, in collaboration with Professor Jeff Lichtman, of Harvard's Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology. "Myelin is a relatively recent ...

URBANA, Ill. For the past 20 years, researchers have published soil organic carbon sequestration rates. Many of the research findings have suggested that soil organic carbon can be sequestered by simply switching from moldboard or conventional tillage systems to no-till systems. However, there is a growing body of research with evidence that no-till systems in corn and soybean rotations without cover crops, small grains, and forages may not be increasing soil organic carbon stocks at the published rates. "Some studies have shown that both moldboard and no-till systems ...

The sun emitted a mid-level solar flare, peaking at 9:03 a.m. EDT on April 18, 2014, and NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory captured images of the event. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however -- when intense enough -- they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. To see how this event may impact Earth, please visit NOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center at http://spaceweather.gov, the U.S. government's ...

Glaciers and ice sheets are commonly thought to work like a belt sander. As they move over the land they scrape off everything — vegetation, soil and even the top layer of bedrock. So a team of university scientists and a NASA colleague were greatly surprised to discover an ancient tundra landscape preserved under the Greenland Ice Sheet, below two miles of ice. "We found organic soil that has been frozen to the bottom of the ice sheet for 2.7 million years," said University of Vermont geologist and lead author Paul Bierman. The finding provides strong evidence that the ...

A new article published online in The Gerontologist reports that among older Christians, listening to religious music is associated with a decrease in anxiety about death and increases in life satisfaction, self-esteem, and sense of control over their lives. In particular, listening to gospel music is associated with a decrease in anxiety about death and an increase in sense of control. These associations are similar for blacks and whites, women and men, and individuals of both low- and high-socioeconomic status. The article, titled "Listening to Religious Music and ...

Durham, NC — Ancient DNA adds a twist to the story of how barnyard chickens came to be, finds a study to be published April 21 in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Analyzing DNA from the bones of chickens that lived 200-2300 years ago in Europe, researchers report that just a few hundred years ago domestic chickens may have looked far different from the chickens we know today. The results suggest that some of the traits we associate with modern domestic chickens -- such as their yellowish skin -- only became widespread in the last 500 years, ...

Durham, NC — Seeds that sprout as soon as they're planted may be good news for a garden. But wild plants need to be more careful. In the wild, a plant whose seeds sprouted at the first warm spell or rainy day would risk disaster. More than just an insurance policy against late frosts or unexpected dry spells, it turns out that seed dormancy has long-term advantages too: Plants whose seeds put off sprouting until conditions are more certain give rise to more species, finds in a team of researchers working at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center in North Carolina. When ...

AMHERST, Mass. – The ability to stick objects to a wide range of surfaces such as drywall, wood, metal and glass with a single adhesive has been the elusive goal of many research teams across the world, but now a team of University of Massachusetts Amherst inventors describe a new, more versatile version of their invention, Geckskin, that can adhere strongly to a wider range of surfaces, yet releases easily, like a gecko's feet. "Imagine sticking your tablet on a wall to watch your favorite movie and then moving it to a new location when you want, without the need for ...

ITHACA, N.Y. – Researchers from Cornell University and Brookhaven National Laboratory have shown how to switch a particular transition metal oxide, a lanthanum nickelate (LaNiO3), from a metal to an insulator by making the material less than a nanometer thick. Ever-shrinking electronic devices could get down to atomic dimensions with the help of transition metal oxides, a class of materials that seems to have it all: superconductivity, magnetoresistance and other exotic properties. These possibilities have scientists excited to understand everything about these materials, ...