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As part of a Europe-wide initiative, the British Society of Periodontology announced its gum disease awareness campaign in the UK last month.

People with a bone deficiency may be in luck.

Postmenopausal women who have smoked are at much higher risk of losing their teeth than women who never smoked, according to a new study published and featured on the cover of the Journal of the American Dental Association by researchers at the University at Buffalo.

The findings of a recent study to be published in European Radiology, 2011, and abstracted in PubMed prior to print (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21805369), authors C Gaudino and colleagues from the Department of Neuroradiology, Heidelberg, Germany, suggest that MRI may be much better at visualizing periodontal dental structures than multidetector computed tomography (MDCT) or CBCT.