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The lineages of chimpanzees and human beings may have split several hundred thousand years earlier than previously thought and in the Eastern Mediterranean region and not in Africa, according to an international research team. Using computer tomography, the researchers investigated the fossil of a lower jaw from Greece and an upper molar from Bulgaria and concluded that they belonged to pre-humans.

Patients who visit our clinic and wish to receive prosthetic treatment are frequently unaware of the possibilities that modern medicine has to offer. Neither are they aware of the fact that implantological treatment is not a ‘one-day’ treatment and that the integration of implants with bone tissues takes some time.

Affecting 60–90 percent of schoolchildren and nearly all adults, dental caries is the most prevalent oral disease around the globe. As current detection methods, such as visual inspection and radiographs, lack sufficient specificity and sensitivity to detect caries at an early stage, researchers seeking an improved means of detection have now described a new method enabling much earlier detection using inexpensive long-wavelength infrared imaging.