All of us follow different habits, things that we have been doing for years; some habits make our life easier and others are simply done for no apparent reason. For this week tips our dental clinic will like to offer you a few healthy dental habits that you should try to follow at all times. Here at our team of professional dentist wants you to have best and strongest smile,
How is your bracket doing in HuangshanDental.com‘s March Mayhem Bracket Challenge? Is your choice to win the tournament still alive? How is your alma mater doing? Did you know that, even if you had a difficult first weekend of the tournament, you can still win? That’s right — one grand prize will be awarded to a randomly selected participant who is among the top 10% of eligible point scorers in
Digital radiography is the new technology that’s found most often in U.S. dental schools, while CAD/CAM denture fabrication and hard-tissue lasers were the technologies least likely to be taught in the schools, according to a new study. Researchers found that the technology implementation rates for dental schools generally followed the rate of acceptance within private practices. The authors of the study, which was published in the Journal of Dental Education,
Our teeth are our responsibility and it’s up to us to take care of them. However sometimes new diseases can develop, and some of these can affect our oral cavity. would like to ask you a few questions: Do you feel as if something is growing in your teeth or your oral cavity? When you look at yourself do you feel bumps or as if you have too many teeth?
Dear DrBicuspid Member, In his second Naked Dentist column, Curtis Marshall gets “inside the muscle” of a practice. He continues his examination of a practice in Colorado and looks at why tracking collections is a reactive, rather than a proactive, approach. They say necessity is the mother of invention. But for Matthew H.J. Kim, founder and CEO of Vigilant Biosciences, the motivation for developing the OncAlert oral cancer testing system
Parents think it’s tougher to get their kids to brush their teeth than to eat their vegetables, according to a new survey. Nearly half (45%) of the 1,300 parents who participated in the survey believed getting their kids to brush their teeth is one of the most challenging things to do, according to the findings released by Delta Dental. Getting kids to eat their vegetables regularly was slightly behind at
Homebound elderly adults have poor oral health and are extremely interested in home-based dental care, according to a new study in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society. Although there is a lot of literature about the oral health status and needs of institutionalized elderly adults, less is known about community-dwelling, homebound elderly adults, the study authors noted. They recommended that medical professionals should partner with the dental community to
Dear DrBicuspid Member, If your practice has trouble staying on schedule, your scheduling guidelines probably need to be updated. You and your team may have inaccurate impressions of how long it really takes to treat patients. The solution is to rely on facts, not guesswork or old habits, according to Dr. Roger P. Levin. What do you do when someone calls your practice and asks a few questions, but he or
The Delta Dental Foundation has donated $100,000 to St. Mary’s Health Foundation of Evansville, IN, for a new mobile dental clinic that will help increase access to care for underserved children in southern Indiana. The mobile clinic will debut later this year and will provide children with oral health education and preventive and restorative dental care services, including routine exams, cleanings, fluoride treatments, sealants, x-rays, and extractions. The clinic will
In recognition of Root Canal Awareness Week, March 22-28, the American Association of Endodontists (AAE) has released a new video that addresses the safety of root canal treatment. The video features endodontists Milton L. Davenport III, DMD, and Nermeen Moussa, DDS, of Chicago and debunks century-old claims that root canal treatment can lead to disease, according to the AAE. “There is a lot of misinformation online about the safety of
Almost half of teenagers in the U.K. have caries, and many are afraid to smile or laugh because of the condition of their teeth, according to a newly released report on the findings of a 2013 dental health survey. The report, which summarizes the results of the 2013 Children’s Dental Health (CDH) survey, was published by the U.K.’s Health and Social Care Information Centre. The survey looked at the quality
According to the World Dental Federation, 90% of the world’s population will suffer from oral diseases in their lifetime — yet many of these diseases can be avoided. Globally, dental care is a health issue that fails to receive the attention it deserves. From India and Haiti to even here in the U.S., where 181 million Americans didn’t see a dentist last year, people often do not understand the consequences
