The results of a special Eurobarómetro about the health of the Europeans, disclosed last month of September, they indicate that the Spaniards are those that fewer visit the dentist to be made a revision.
According to the study, elaborated by the European Commission, a high percentage of European citizens, 62%, a dental revision a year ago and in most of the cases it is for own initiative, but the visits to the dentist they vary a lot in function of the state member that it is, This way, last year only he/she made it 36% of the Spaniards that share this percentage with the Romanian.
The periodic checkup of the health bucodental is quite more habitual in Low Countries and Slovakia, where the population's 82% went to the dentist in 2006. The poll reflects, igual¬mente that in Luxemburg, Denmark, Germany and the population's Sweden fourth three parts carries out a revision a year. In the case of Sweden a government program of revision that covers to 34% of the inhabitants exists.
The data reveal that they are the women and the citizens with an educational greater level those that more frequents the consultation of the dentists, usually in a voluntary way. If one keeps in mind, therefore, the demographic approach and the sex, are proven that 64% of those who go to know its dental health is women, in front of 59% of the men, and that those bigger than 55 years are more reluctant than other age groups. 71% of those that undergo a test annual bucodental has a high level of academic formation, in front of only 47% of those that have a lower formation.
Eurobarómetro indicates, on the other hand that the Europeans consider that, in general, they enjoy good health; interviewed one of each seven only declares to have it bad or very bad.

A published study last month of July in Journal of Periodontology relates the discovery of bacterias implied in the periodontitis in the amniotic liquid of some pregnant women. The scientists analyzed the situation of 26 pregnant women with risk of premature childbirth and in their 30% they found the bacteria Porphyromonas gingivalis in the oral cavity and in the amniotic liquid.
"Although these discoveries don't show any causal direct relationship between the oral pathology and the adverse results of the pregnancy, to pay a special attention to the oral health continues being important for the women during the pregnancy", the doctor explains to Jorge Gamonal, of the University of Chile, one of the authors of the work who also remembers that previous investigations yes they have related the problems at the end of the pregnancy with the periodontitis.
Another work published in the same magazine the previous month gave bill of a study carried out from among with 50 women 20 and 35 years with different periodontitis grades, in which was shown that the youths that were taking birth-control pills manifested more bled gingival during the poll and periodontal deeper bags that those that didn't take them.

A new discovery of two dental pieces of the Paleolithic Mean has contributed new tracks about the life of the human neandertales. The investigators of the Community of Madrid, led by Juan Luis Arsuaga, professor of Paleontology and director of the Location of Atapuerca (Burgos), they have found in the municipality of Pinilla of the Valley the second and the third molar of an about 30 year-old adult, that he/she inhabited this area of the mountain from Madrid ago 63.400 years.
The fact that they are pieces of oneself jaw, next to their perfect conservation state, he/she makes believe to the archaeologists in the possibility of finding human more remains. Among the conclusions that have been extracted of this discovery, it highlights the feeding way that included meat of herbivore animals cooked to the fire, and the use of fine sticks, by way of toothpick, to retire the remains of food of the dental pieces.