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A healthy mouth supports top athletes’ performance and sports goals

Research shows a direct link between oral health and sports performance. Thus, Annimari Korte, a Finnish Olympic athlete, finds it disappointing that sports bodies such as her home country’s Olympi...

Lumoral is beneficial in healthy people, study confirms

A plaque study conducted by a group of oral hygiene students as part of their final thesis, at the Metropolia University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki, Finland, has been completed. The study show...

A healthy mouth is a prerequisite for successful implant treatment

Finland is a rather conservative country when it comes to dental implant treatments. Unlike in many other European countries, where demand for implants is growing strongly as the population ages, t...

Finland’s Koite Health partners up with a major player in the Italian implant industry

Finnish health technology company Koite Health has signed a distribution accord with Megagen Italia, which markets cutting-edge dental implant systems and advanced surgical devices. As a kickoff to...

Periodontal disease in adolescence poses a threat to adult health – modern diagnosis and treatment methods help keep serious gum diseases at bay

Periodontitis, or severe gingivitis, is a common disease that is estimated to affect about 20-50% of the global population – often without any symptoms at all. Now, for the first time, a Finnish st...