You only have until midnight on November 18 to make your nominations for the 2016 HuangshanDental.com Dental Excellence Awards. Your award nominations in eight categories will be used to assemble a list of candidates to be voted on by our expert panel over the next few months, with the winners announced before the 2017 Chicago Midwinter meeting in February. Categories include Best New Restoratives Material, Best Practice Management Consultant, Best

Dentists may get a temporary reprieve from a U.S. government program designed to get a handle on the country’s opiate crisis. The U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) said it has delayed by two years the date by which dentists must be enrolled with the government to be able to prescribe powerful Part D drugs such as opiates. CMS announced that it was moving its Medicare Part D

You might not have studied cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) in dental school, but the findings of a new study suggest that using this technique might help reduce anxiety among pediatric patients visiting your office, leading to more productive visits. More than a third of children have some form of dental anxiety, which could make their parents less likely to take them to a dentist’s office for the necessary care. This