If your gums rest too low or too high on your teeth and you are unhappy with your smile, you may be a candidate for gum contouring surgery. Also called gum reshaping or tissue sculpting, this cosmetic ...

If you've recently been told by your dentist or gum doctor (periodontist) that you need a gum graft, don't panic. Gum surgery sounds worse than it is. A gum graft may be necessary to protect your ...

A gum graft is a type of dental surgery performed to correct the effects of gum recession. It is a quick and relatively simple surgery in which a periodontist removes healthy gum tissue from the roof ...

A stomach biopsy, or gastric tissue biopsy, is a procedure to diagnose a range of conditions, including stomach ulcers. The biopsy involves removing a sample of stomach tissue. This sample is sent to ...

A gastric tissue biopsy and culture are laboratory tests that examine stomach tissue. These tests are typically carried out to determine the cause of a stomach ulcer or other troublesome stomach ...

Do you have questions about Tissue Processing? Robin Fitzl, Senior Application Specialist at Leica Biosystems, has the answers! As part of her popular “Lessons from the Laboratory” series, Robin ...

In recent years, minimally invasive medical interventions performed under fluoroscopy and other types of imaging guidance have been extensively replacing the open surgery for many medical ...

Autonomic neural blockade may represent a unique way to manage postoperative visceral pain and associated symptoms following minimally invasive weight loss surgery, according to a new report in JAMA ...

Have your research results or laboratory processes been bogged down by poor staining quality of histology slides? We all know that proper tissue processing is a key element to downstream staining ...