The dental school’s videos are included on the university’s new YouTube Channel that was launched in September. The university’s portal includes videos focusing on special speakers and events, classroom lectures, and other highlights.

The School of Dentistry’s videos are the result of an effort that began several years ago to digitize more than 1,200 videotapes created in the school’s television studios in the 1970s.

Read the article and take a look at the School's YouTube channel.

The article:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/the-huge-gap-between-a-dentist-and-a-job/

The blog:
http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/losing-dental-insurance/

Since it is so short, it is actually reasonable to transcribe it. Take a look.

A New or Improved Manufacture of Eucalyptus Products for Various Useful Purposes

I, Elizabeth Dean, of Glenthorne, Worple Road, Epsom, in the County of Surrey, Widow, do hereby declare the nature of this invention and in what manner the same is to be performed, to be particularly described and ascertained in and by the following statement: —

It is well known that the Eucalyptus genus of trees possesses valuable antiseptic and medicinal properties, and is supposed to destroy microbes in the atmosphere. It is sometimes called the Fever Tree, as it has been found beneficial in reducing fever when put in the rooms of patients suffering from that disease. I propose to prepare and use the leaves and other parts of Eucalyptus trees, in a convenient manner, so that the above named valuable natural properties may be more conveniently applied for the relief of mankind than has hitherto been done.

My invention consists in applying the leaves, seeds, gums, fibre and other parts of the tree to various articles of common use as follows. The leaves are dried in the sun or by artificial heat, and are then selected cut or wrapped to be used as a substitute for tobacco, for smoking in pipes, or in the form of cigars, or cigarettes. This has been found to be a not unpleasant substitute for tobacco, and — unlike the latter — it leaves a clean and rather pleasant flavour in the mouth. The leaves and fibre may also be used in making the stuffing of beds, mattresses, bolsters, pillows, and the cushions of chairs and sofas. Furthermore, the leaves may be used for fumigating rooms, as a tea or combined with the leaves of the tea plant, or — when ground — used as a snuff, for tooth powder, or combined with the fats employed in making soap and candles.

I propose also to form the gum into lozenges for the throat and chest, and to use it for plasters and poultices. The seed is ground and used with or without ground gum and leaves in making bread, or in other culinary operations.

For any of the above named purposes, the leaves or other products of Eucalyptus may be made up into convenient parcels or packages for ready use.

Having now particularly described and ascertained the nature of my said invention, and in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is: —

A new or improved manufacture of Eucalyptus products, prepared and packed in suitable parcels in the manner and for the purpose herein described.

This 5th day of October 1891.

FAIRFAX & WETTER
Per E.C.B.

Here's the list and here's JADA's news release.

Dentistry & Oral Science Sources
Covers all facets relating to the areas of dentistry including dental public health, endodontics, facial pain & surgery, odontology, oral & maxillofacial pathology/surgery/radiology, orthodontology, pediatric dentistry, periodontology, and prosthodontics. This database includes full-text.

EMBASE
A biomedical and pharmacological bibliographic database, which provides access to citations and abstracts from biomedical and drug literature via EMBASE and MEDLINE. It contains over 19 million indexed records from 7,000+ peer-reviewed journals, covering 1947 to date, with more than 600,000 additions annually.

The ProQuest Nursing & Allied Health Source
A database providing full text journals, evidence based resources, and dissertations to support the study of the many aspects of nursing or the allied health professions, including physical therapy, radiography, dietetics, dental hygiene, and the clinical laboratory sciences.

Pediatric Care Online
A point-of-care resource which integrates multiple pediatric resources including the new AAP Textbook of Pediatric Care, Point-of-Care Quick Reference, Pediatric Drug Lookup, Bright Futures (comprehensive health supervision guidelines), AAP Red Book information, a Signs & Symptoms Search, AAP guideline updates, and hundreds of patient handouts with easy to read explanations for many conditions and procedures.

DynaMed
A clinical reference tool created by physicians for physicians and other health care professionals for use primarily at the 'point-of-care'. It contains clinically organized summaries for more than 3,000 topics using evidence-based medicine. Unlike UpToDate, remote access (i.e., off-campus) is available.

SCOPUS
An abstract and citation database that provides access to nearly 18,000 peer-reviewed journals, 435 million scientific web pages, 23 million patent records, and "Articles-in-Press" from over 3,000 journals.

JAMAevidence
Integrates available evidence with clinical experience. It includes Users' Guides to the Medical Literature: A Manual for Evidence-Based Clinical Practice (2nd edition) and The Rational Clinical Examination: Evidence-Based Clinical Diagnosis. This resource is jointly offered with financial support from the University of Michigan’s Office of Graduate Medical Education.

R2 Digital Library
Offers full-text access to over 120 premier health science e-books in medicine, nursing, and dentistry.

The exhibit features photographs of the Dentistry Library as it evolved on North University Street, before its recent move to the Taubman Medical Library, and a series of images of the "Annual Announcement," describing the School of Dentistry and the dentistry program as they were in the year 1900.

You may also view a slideshare version of this exhibit:

In the July issue of the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, researchers partially funded through NIDCR may have found the answer. It’s a soft capsule filled with 8 milliliters of strawberry-flavored xylitol syrup. Parents can pull it apart and squeeze the syrup directly into their child’s mouth. In a year-long randomized trial of 94 toddlers whose primary teeth were “coming in,” the researchers found that children who received two capsules a day could prevent up to 70 percent of decayed teeth. They found that the protection against decay was not increased with three capsules per day. The study was conducted in the Micronesian Marshall Islands, where the caries rate is two to three times that of the typical American mainland community. According to the authors, this marks the first time to their knowledge that xylitol has been shown to be “effective for the prevention of decay in primary teeth for toddlers.”

Milgrom P, Ly KA, Tut OK, Mancl L, Roberts MC, Briand K, and Gancio MJ. Xylitol pediatric topical oral syrup to prevent dental caries, Arch Pediatr Adolsc Med 2009:163: 601-607. http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/163/7/601

FDA Urges Consumers Not to Purchase or Use Certain Gel-Filled Teethers Products found to contain bacteria; voluntary nationwide recall underway

Luv N’ Care Ltd. of Monroe, La., is initiating a nationwide recall of gel-filled teethers with the brand names “Nuby,” “Cottontails” and “Playschool,” because the liquid inside the gel-filled teethers has been found to contain Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus circulans bacteria in the gel.

http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm172713.htm

Thanks to Cameron Neylon for this image.

What this means: you don't have to wait years to see how often an article is being cited.

To see the complete post, click here:
http://www.mendeley.com/blog/2009/05/ologeez-founder-joins-mendeley/

Check out this video of a short presentation by one of Mendeley’s creators, Victor Henning, at the recent "Next Web" conference in Amsterdam.

Link:

And remember that I'm giving a presentation June 10 on Mendeley in the School of Dentistry's IT Boot Camp series. Come to see it or look for it on SlideShare and the School of Dentistry and HSL web sites.

Daniel O'Connell's Elevating Chair, via Claudius Ash: Title Page

Daniel O'Connell's Elevating Chair, via Claudius Ash: Detail Page

More images of this patent can be browsed here.

Patent UK 1886 #10,052: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/tags/patentuk188610052/

More patents can be browsed here.

Flickr: Dental Patents Set: http://www.flickr.com/photos/rosefirerising/sets/72157613314928074/

http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2009/05/01/flu_fear_shuts_harvard_dental/

Search History
When you do a search now, you’ll see a new option under Actions. If you click on More, you’ll get a menu that will let you easily delete, save, or create auto-alerts & RSS feeds directly from that search. If your search returns no results, Delete will automatically appear.

Publication Year Limit
It’s now possible to limit your search results by “Last Year”, “Last 2 Years” and so on. Click on the Additional Limits button; you’ll find this new limit set at the bottom of the limits page.

You’ll also notice that there's a box on the left marked Star Ranking. Star Ranking operates only in the Basic Search option and indicates how relevant a particular reference is to the search terms that you entered.

Links to PDFs of Full-text Articles in Citations
When full-text is available at no charge in the database, you’ll see a PDF symbol in the citation record. This is convenient, but don’t forget to click on the MGet It button when you don’t see the PDF symbol—we’ve paid for you to have access to many more journals than are available through the database, and you won’t see the PDF symbol for these articles.

Customizable Search Fields
Now you can create a search using only the specific fields you want. Simply click on Search Fields tab and a new window opens. Choose the fields you want to search (the default is af or “all fields”) by mousing over the field you want to add. Plus/minus signs appear; click on + to add a field or – to delete a field.

I’ve checked 3 fields here, then entered search terms in the search box immediately above (osteonecrosis OR bone cancer AND 2000).

Click on Search (immediately below the search box). Here are the search results, with the fields that I chose indicated in the search (sh, hw, yr).

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/04/12/q__a_with_alyssa_picard/

Click on the RefGrab-It icon and another page appears.

Click Import to put the record in your library.

Here's another web page. There are 2 tabs, because there’s more information than just that for the web page.

On the Other Info tab, you can see that I can import both references & an RSS feed. Please note: When importing references (not just web page information), you'll only be able to import the same number of references as is selected on the Search Online Databases page in RefWorks (the default is 50 references; for this page, I increased the number to 500).

RefGrab-It can be downloaded from the Tools menu in RefWorks.

Questions? Please contact me or email hslibraries@umich.edu.