A Minnesota dentist who rescued a woman from a burning car has received a Citizen Award of Valor, according to a story published on May 26 in ADA News. The public safety department in Mankato bestowed the award on Dr. Drew Neumann, the owner of Advanced Dental in Mankato. The award is given to citizens who engage in exemplary and heroic acts under adverse conditions and without hesitation or regard for
A flight attendant lost two teeth in an assault by a passenger last weekend on a Southwest Airlines flight, according to a PBS News Hour article from the Associated Press. The incident occurred the morning of May 23 after a flight from Sacramento, CA, landed in San Diego, a Southwest spokesman stated. The female passenger and the flight attendant were not identified, according to the article. The flight attendant was
Dear Restoratives & Cosmetics Insider, It turns out the smiles of stars differ quite a bit from the grins of us regular folk. Photos of smiling celebrities showed numerous deviations from the smiles of Spanish dental students in one recent study. Celebrity smiles had no tilting of the maxillary midline, showed more teeth, displayed incisal edges parallel to the lower lip, and displayed occlusal and commissural planes parallel to the
A dental team in Afghanistan identified a dorsal tongue ulcer in a 62-year-old man who later tested positive for COVID-19. The man’s painful lesion persisted for weeks, and he also experienced asymptomatic geographic tongue, according to details published on May 20 in BMC Oral Health. Patients with problems in the oral mucosa and suspected or confirmed SARS-CoV-2 infection should be monitored, noted the authors, led by Dr. Mohammad Bashir Nejabi from
Dr. Matthew Burton, a practicing dentist in Illinois, has inked an exclusive distribution agreement with Young Specialties to distribute his chairside technologies to dentists in the U.S. and Canada. Burton designed and developed BurtonBands and VursaWedge to help eliminate class II procedural inefficiencies. VursaWedge uses a split-wedge design to prevent deformation inherent to traditional wedge and band systems. VursaWedge. Image courtesy of Dr. Matthew Burton.
Delegates of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (AAOMS) may adopt new rules for in-office anesthesia to ensure patient safety, according to a short communication published on May 19 in the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. The proposed resolutions, which would require members to participate in simulation training every five years, were developed in response to long-term criticism of the oral-maxillofacial surgery anesthesia model, the authors wrote.
Burst Oral Care has unveiled its Burstkids sonic toothbrush, designed and approved in partnership with Burst ambassador dental professionals. The small, ergonomically designed silicone handle creates a better grip and easy manipulation for children developing fine motor skills, Burst said. The company designed the brush head and soft, tapered bristles to fit in developing mouths and dislodge food and debris. The toothbrush has two cleaning modes, and it also encourages
In 2016, patients in the U.S. spent about $20 billion on orthodontic treatments, according to a study published on May 17 in BMC Oral Health. This represents approximately 70% growth over spending in 1996 and was also the most spent during the 20-year study period. There were several year-to-year decreases scattered within the years of increased spending, however. The periodic drop in spending suggests that orthodontic care’s dependence on out-of-pocket payments
Dear DrBicuspid Member, A young woman experienced rare, life-threatening episodes of mouth bleeding for weeks following the uncovering of a dental implant. Associate Editor Melissa Busch’s article with the must-know details was the top story of the week. The woman visited an emergency department after experiencing more than 40 bleeding episodes, including three significant events of intraoral bleeding. Embolizing her artery stopped the bleeding, but clinicians continue to monitor her.
In 1993, Dr. David Silber, a dentist now practicing in Plano, TX, was fired from the first dental clinic he worked for. He’d been assigned to a patient another dentist had scheduled for a crown preparation. However, Silber found nothing wrong with the tooth, so he sent the patient home. He was fired later the same day. “Never send a patient away who’s willing to pay the clinic money,” he was
Dental Dose is a twice-monthly video series featuring pharmacologist Tom Viola, RPh. In each episode, Viola shares bite-sized pieces of dental pharmacology news, facts, and myths. Cannabis on its own can cause oral and overall health problems. But add in an electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) dispenser, and those issues can be compounded, according to Tom Viola in the latest episode of Dental Dose. As mentioned in the pilot episode of Dental
A tip from a dental office led to a New York man being arrested and charged on May 17 with multiple offenses in connection with the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, according to documents released by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia. An employee at an unidentified dental practice contacted the authorities after Daniel Warmus allegedly bragged about storming the Capitol, smoking marijuana inside the
