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Dental Tribune U.S. Edition | February 2012XX XXXXX Dental Tribune U.S. Edition | January 2014A2 NEWS Publisher & Chairman Torsten Oemus t.oemus@dental-tribune.com President & Chief exeCutive OffiCer Eric Seid e.seid@dental-tribune.com GrOuP editOr Kristine Colker k.colker@dental-tribune.com editOr in Chief dental tribune Dr. David L. Hoexter feedback@dental-tribune.com manaGinG editOr u.s. and Canada editiOns Robert Selleck r.selleck@dental-tribune.com manaGinG editOr Fred Michmershuizen f.michmershuizen@dental-tribune.com manaGinG editOr Sierra Rendon s.rendon@dental-tribune.com PrOduCt/aCCOunt manaGer Jan Agostaro j.agostaro@dental-tribune.com marketinG direCtOr Anna Kataoka-Wlodarczyk a.wlodarczyk@dental-tribune.com eduCatiOn direCtOr Christiane Ferret c.ferret@dtstudyclub.com aCCOuntinG COOrdinatOr Nirmala Singh n.singh@dental-tribune.com Tribune America, LLC 116 West 23rd St., Ste. #500 New York, N.Y. 10011 (212) 244-7181 Published by Tribune America © 2014 Tribune America, LLC All rights reserved. Dental Tribune strives to maintain the utmost accu- racy in its news and clinical reports. If you find a fac- tual error or content that requires clarification, please contact Managing Editor Robert Selleck at r.selleck@ dental-tribune.com. Dental Tribune cannot assume responsibility for the validity of product claims or for typographical errors. The publisher also does not assume responsibility for product names or statements made by advertisers. Opinions expressed by authors are their own and may not reflect those of Tribune America. editOrial bOard Dr. Joel Berg Dr. L. Stephen Buchanan Dr. Arnaldo Castellucci Dr. Gorden Christensen Dr. Rella Christensen Dr. William Dickerson Hugh Doherty Dr. James Doundoulakis Dr. David Garber Dr. Fay Goldstep Dr. Howard Glazer Dr. Harold Heymann Dr. Karl Leinfelder Dr. Roger Levin Dr. Carl E. Misch Dr. Dan Nathanson Dr. Chester Redhead Dr. Irwin Smigel Dr. Jon Suzuki Dr. Dennis Tartakow Dr. Dan Ward Tell us what you think! Do you have general comments or criti- cism you would like to share? Is there a particular topic you would like to see articles about in Dental Tribune? Let us know by sending an email to feedback@ dental-tribune.com. We look forward to hearing from you! If you would like to make any change to your subscription (name, address or to opt out) please send us an email at database@dental-tribune.com and be sure to include which publication you are referring to. Also, please note that subscription changes can take up to six weeks to process. DENTAL TRIBUNE The World’s Dental Newspaper · US Edition While bacterial infections have been associated with a number of serious medical conditions, such as cardiovas- cular diseases, their role in cerebrovascular disorders has not been fully understood to date. Now, researchers from Finland have suggested that infections due to oral and pha- ryngealbacteriacouldbearisk factor for ruptured intracra- nial aneurysms. In the study, the research- ers obtained 36 ruptured aneurysm speci- mens through aneurysm clipping opera- tions (29) and by autopsy (7), which were examined for the presence of bacterial DNA from various oral species. The researchers found bacte- rial DNA in 21 specimens. DNA from endodontic bacteria was detected in 20 specimens and from periodontal bacteria in 17 of the samples. Bacterial DNA of the streptococcus mitis group, which has also been linked to endocarditis, was found to be the most common. Aggregati- bacteractinomycetemcomitans, Fusobacterium nucleatum and Treponema denticola were the three most common periodontal pathogens. According to the researchers, the study is the first to provide evidence that dental infections could be associated with intra- cranial aneurysm disease and the rupture of brain aneurysms in particular. The study, titled “The connection be- tween ruptured cerebral aneurysms and odontogenicbacteria,”waspublishedinthe November 2013 issue of the Journal of Neu- rology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry. It was conducted by researchers at the University of Tampere in collaboration with the Uni- versity of Eastern Finland in Kuopio. (Sources: University of Tampere and the University of Eastern Finland in Kuopio) Dental infections may play a role in brain aneurysms An image from section 8.12 Record Type-12: Forensic dental and oral record, in NIST Special Publication 500-290 Version 2 (2013), depicts three simulated restorations to illustrate proper coding used to describe restorations’ material content and location. Photo/Provided by NIST world. These include the FBI National Crime Information Center Dental Im- age Repository, the Department of Jus- tice National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs), INTERPOL FastID Disaster Victim Identification System, Plass Data software (used by many organizations around the world), WinID Dental Identification System (used in many U.S. disaster recovery operations) and the UVIS Dental Iden- tification Module (UDIM) developed by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office and also used by some munici- palities. Once implemented, the standard will enable these organizations to not only exchange data but also gather data di- rectly from dental offices, even though each system uses unique encodings that are not mutually compatible. The dental supplement also covers other items that can be useful for fo- rensic work, such as patterned injury imagery (for example, bite marks), cheiloscopy (lip prints), CT and cone- beam scans, and more. NIST coordinated the development of these supplements and manages the updates to the standard. For more in- formation about the standard and the standards development process and for a copy of the standard itself, visit www.nist.gov/itl/iad/ig/ansi_standard.cfm, or you can contact Bradford Wing at (301) 975 5663. (Source: The Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology) Protocol for forensic dental data now same as for DNA and fingerprinting The Information Technology Labo- ratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), whose broad mission is to promote U.S. innovation and industrial competi- tiveness by advancing measurement science, standards and technology, re- cently added a dental data supplement to its existing standard, “Data Format for the Interchange of Fingerprint, Fa- cial & Other Biometric Information.” The forensic dental data supplement standardizes the transmission meth- odology of familial dental data, dental history data, tooth data, mouth data, radiological data, visual images and other dental biometric information. Such data can be critical to the inves- tigation of missing persons as well as disaster recovery identification efforts for transportation accidents, terrorist attacks and other incidents where den- tal records are used in the identifica- tion process. ANSI/NIST-ITL canvassees repre- senting more than 60 organizations around the world approved the dental supplement as well as a new forensic voice analysis supplement. “The dental supplement evolved out of the need to include forensic dental in disaster victim identification,” said Bradford Wing, biometric standards coordinator of NIST-ITL. “Communi- cation protocols for dental data now match those for fingerprints and DNA.” The ANSI/NIST-ITL Dental Working Group worked collaboratively with the American Dental Association (ADA) Standards Committee on Dental Infor- matics over a period of several years to produce a supplement that uses the ANSI/ADA Standard 1058 — Forensic Dental Data Set as the basis for inter- action and interoperability among the various forensic dental reposito- ries and systems deployed around the ANSI/NIST-ITL updates standards for transferring information Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry