SmileDirectClub is set to introduce its clear-aligner therapy to Germany early next year. The company plans to open multiple SmileShops across the country to further expand its doctor-directed remote clear-aligner therapy in the European Union. During this year, SmileDirectClub increased its international reach to affiliated dentists and orthodontists in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland, and the U.K.
Holiday time is the perfect time to play some “Would You Rather,” the party game that forces participants to reveal surprising facts about themselves, including how seriously they take their oral hygiene, while providing insight into what they value most. Instead of coming up with your own questions, the top 250 “Would You Rather” questions were published in an article on December 11 in the magazine Parade. Some are no-brainers,
Dear DrBicuspid Member, If you’re looking to start an argument at the holiday dinner table, just bring up the topic of religion or politics. If you’re in the dental industry, you can also bring up the subject of dental service organizations (DSOs) in dentistry to liven up the conversation as well. Let’s face it, we have all heard stories and gossip about what it’s “really like” to work inside a
Teeth-straightening startup Uniform Teeth received a $10 million investment boost from Canaan Partners on December 4, bringing its funding total to $14 million, according to news reports. The company plans to use the funding to open a new location in Seattle and another in Chicago early in 2020. Currently, it operates two locations in San Francisco, and it anticipates more in the U.S. by the end of 2020. The startup, which provides
Do you or your child play a sport? Do you use a mouthguard? You probably should. They protect your teeth — and could save you thousands of dollars in emergency dental costs. At our Cleveland dental office, we see dental emergencies related to sports injuries often. In fact, sports-related dental injuries account for more than 600,000 emergency room visits each year, according to the Center for Disease Control. Between
The ADA has brought back the character of Hermey the Elf from the Christmas classic “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer” to promote oral care for good girls and boys during the current holiday season. Hermey appeared in a series of holiday TV specials starting in 1964. Hermey never fit in with other elves, but instead he always dreamed of becoming a dentist. In 2014, the ADA awarded Hermey a dental do-gooder
Ultradent Products has added its new Uveneer Extra restorative template system to its line of products. Uveneer Extra is designed to complement the original Uveneer template system with enhanced natural restorations with four new upper anterior designs — extra large, large, medium, and square templates — which work with any preferred composite to create reproducible composite veneers with predictable shape and symmetry. The autoclavable templates also are designed to prevent
A woman in Glasgow, U.K., accidentally swallowed her partial dentures while eating mince pie, but she is hopeful that she will have a new set of two front bottom teeth in time for Christmas, according to news reports. Angela McGill, 52, thought on December 3 that she was swallowing a tougher piece of pastry and then began panicking when she realized it was her dentures. McGill likely swallowed the dentures
Does body weight affect the likelihood that a patient may have periodontal disease? Evidence suggests it does, according to a recent review published in the British Dental Journal. However, knowing the common link between these diseases can help clinicians plan treatment for patients with obesity, periodontitis, or both, according to the review authors from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland and El Bosque University in Bogotá, Colombia. That common link
A new review published in the December edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association has linked metabolic syndrome with tooth loss. People with metabolic syndrome had fewer teeth and were more likely to have nonfunctional dentition, the review found. For the review, researchers from Brazil and Australia parsed the findings of a dozen studies on the relationship between tooth loss and metabolic syndrome. However, they cautioned that more
An oral surgeon in Virginia and her employer must pay $625,000 to a 12-year-old girl following third-molar surgery in which her lingual nerve was severed and that left her with lifelong issues, including the inability to taste. Corey Burgoyne, DMD, and Blue Ridge Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in Fishersville and Lexington, VA, must pay the damages to the girl and her family, according to a final order issued on November
Software and hardware manufacturer SICAT has introduced version 2.0 of its implant planning software for CEREC guides. SICAT Implant 2.0 is now open for the import of all 3D cone-beam CT (CBCT) data and features multiple new functionalities, including implant-oriented views, collision warnings, and a planning report designed to enable reliable evaluation of the treatment plan, according to the company. What’s more, the software automatically preselects implant length and diameter
