Week 3: DENTAL CARTOON CAPTION CONTEST
March 21st 2012We will be posting exclusive dental cartoons every week for your viewing and caption writing fun. We are asking you to tell the story of what's happening in the cartoon. Write your most creative caption and submit it below to see if yours will become the next Dental Caption of the Week.
How to take educational before/after photos
March 21st 2012In 1982 I walked into the executive offices of the world’s largest developer of beauty salons and spas. I wasn’t quite 30 years old but I was excited to meet with the senior staff of this prestigious company. I wanted to learn how dental beauty services could compliment facial beauty services. I thought that there were some lessons I could learn. I could not believe they were going to actually meet with me.
Oral Health America Applauds Oral Health Provisions in Health Care Reform Bill
March 21st 2012CHICAGO, March 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The health care reform bill passed by Congress, and now signed into law by President Obama, includes many provisions that will improve the nation's oral health. Most significantly, the bill does guarantee oral health coverage for children and allows for resources to extend oral disease prevention measures in every state. Over time, the bill's provisions can help to increase access to care for all ages.
Paperless makes for less stress
March 21st 2012Doctors Allen and Kelly Smudde of Valencia, CA-based Smudde Dental decided to go paperless in 2007. The improvement in efficiency for the 6,000-patient practice has been noticeable. The same patient exam that used to take between one and a half hours to two hours now takes 45 minutes.
Sonntag to present GC ceramics course
March 21st 2012Rick Sonntag, RDT, owner of 4 Points Dental Designs and GC Technical Advisor, will conduct a course June 18 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on "The Fusion of Esthetics and Function" at the GC Logistics Center in Alsip, Ill. The course will offer six hours of CDT credit and will cover:
“The results of parental satisfaction are very positive…”
March 21st 2012I was a full-time faculty member at The Ohio State University College of Dentistry back in the early and mid ’80s when NuSmile Crowns became available. I published one of the first articles that looked at fracture resistance of NuSmile and other crowns available at the time. After I left academia to go into private practice, the practice I joined happened to use NuSmile crowns. I’ve been using them routinely for 15 years. What patients are a good fit?
Bisco’s DUO-LINK™ Composite Luting Cement
March 21st 2012Bisco’s DUO-LINK composite luting cement is a dual-cured, highly filled cement and competes in a very crowded and often confusing product niche in restorative dentistry. DUO-LINK is not a newly introduced product, but one that has had a long history of producing excellent clinical results.
Zirconia CAD/CAM bridge in three pieces
March 21st 2012The patient, a 50-year-old female, presented with a large diastema, irregular teeth size and dull color. Furthermore, the shape of the teeth on the right versus left sides was different-as is apparent in the pre-op photo (Fig. A). The teeth on her left side were longer than those on the right.
Research supports efficacy of MI Paste Plus among orthodontic patients
March 21st 2012August 27, 2010-Research presented at the 2010 International Association for Dental Research meeting in Barcelona, Spain supports the use of MI Paste Plus™ with RECALDENT™† containing casein phosphopeptide - amorphous calcium phosphate and fluoride (CPP-ACPF) for the prevention of decalcification in orthodontic patients.
Tech Brief: Applying ORABLOC in your practice
March 21st 2012For routine dental procedures and oral surgery, Orabloc™ articaine-based injectable dental anesthetic provides rapid onset of action. Each cartridge is individually sealed in a blister package for cleanliness, protection of the cartridge as well as the epinephrine. It is available through Patterson Dental.
The AGD and the Academy of General Dentistry Foundation provide Free oral health care
March 21st 2012CHICAGO, July 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ - This Thursday, July 8, 2010, the Academy of General Dentistry (AGD) and the AGD Foundation will team up with the Louisiana State University (LSU) School of Dentistry to hold its first outreach project, Nation of Smiles, One Smile at a Time. This event will provide upwards of 300 patients from local shelters, clinics and charities with free dental care from volunteer dentists, hygienists, and dental assistants from around the nation. LSU dental students also will be participating.
Sir Liam Donaldson, global patient safety leader, to keynote OSAP 2011 symposium
March 21st 2012ANNAPOLIS, MD-March 14, 2011-The Board of Directors of the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP) announced that Sir Liam Donaldson, Chairman of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) patient safety initiative, will speak at its annual Infection Prevention and Safety Symposium on Friday, June 10, in Plano (Dallas), TX. The conference runs June 9-12, 2011.