Body & Health Conditions Articles

Dental implants require a sufficient amount of bone to function successfully. One procedure to increase the width of the available bone is a ridge split procedure. Learn when it is performed, how you will feel after, and what you will gain afterward.

If you have cardiomyopathy you may be unaware, since it often has no symptoms. It still puts you at risk of sudden death. Genetic testing comes in as a valuable tool that can help with early diagnosis and prevention of complications. Here's how it works.

A lot of research is going on in making dental implant surgery more comfortable for patients, without compromising the success rate. One of the advances is the flapless dental implant, where surgery can be carried out without any cuts, stitches, or pain.

Antiarrhythmic medications are a good way to treat arrhythmia when it's severe enough to warrant treatment, but not surgery. By significantly reducing the risk of some dangerous heart diseases, like stroke, they're invaluable for arrhythmia treatment.

Dental implant treatment has evolved, and is testing the limits of what was once considered possible. Should patients have to wait for three months or more to get their implants, or can they get their new teeth immediately? Here are the differences.

Sinus lift surgery is an additional procedure that is often required to be performed to facilitate dental implant treatment. What are the situations when it is needed? How is it done? Is it safe? All these and other questions answered in this article.

Although some arrhythmias don't require treatment, other arrhythmia can negatively affect someone's daily life or even threaten their life. In these cases, it's worth seeking treatment.

Heart muscle disease can also affect children and infants and lead to life-threatening situations such as heart failure or sudden cardiac death. Find out about the types of cardiomyopathy that affect children, their symptoms, outcomes, and treatment.

Doctors use a variety of tools to analyze the heart and diagnose arrhythmia. What do you need to know?

Sometimes arrhythmia can't be kept in check by lifestyle changes and medication alone. In those cases, an antiarrhythmic device may be needed to mitigate the symptoms.