HuangshanDental.com is pleased to present the next column from two lawyers who spend every day defending dentists in litigation and before the licensing board. The purpose of this column is to offer our readers a fresh perspective on common practice and risk management issues from attorneys who litigate these issues in the real world. A female patient between the ages of 30 and 40 presented to an orthodontist seeking advice
Several Major League Baseball (MLB) stadiums will be tobacco-free by 2016 Opening Day as the campaign to end smokeless tobacco use in baseball gains momentum, according to the group Campaign for Tobacco-Free Kids. “Our Knock Tobacco Out of the Park campaign is gaining momentum from coast to coast,” stated Matthew L. Myers, president of the group, in a press release. “The cities that have already made baseball tobacco-free have set
Dear DrBicuspid Member, Texas officials are giving up on recovering most of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on questionable Medicaid dental and orthodontic procedures. After years of an ongoing scandal over fraudulent billing and courtroom losses, the commission that oversees Medicaid has offered settlements for a fraction of the claimed damages. Read Features Editor Donna Domino’s article here. Children exposed to tobacco smoke at 4 months had an
Team 1500 is hosting a free teleconference about dental sedation on November 2 at 9 p.m. EST. The teleconference, “Does the route of dental sedation matter?” will explore questions about using oral versus intravenous drugs to sedate fearful and anxious patients, and it will feature Raymond Dionne, DDS, PhD, a professor in the East Carolina University School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Dionne will make the case that oral sedation and intravenous
Texas officials are giving up on recovering most of the hundreds of millions of dollars spent on questionable Medicaid dental and orthodontic procedures. After years of an ongoing scandal over fraudulent billing and courtroom losses, the commission that oversees Medicaid has offered settlements for a fraction of the claimed damages. The Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) has offered settlements for most of nearly 100 pending cases of alleged
Pac-Dent International has launched the PacFil PC (plastic carrier) and PacFil GPC (gutta-percha carrier) thermal obturators. They can be used to obturate any constant or variable 0.04 to 0.10 tapered canal International Organization for Standardization (ISO) size 20 to 50, according to the company. The obturators are radiopaque and compatible for use in most popular gutta-percha obturator ovens. Product advantages include the following: Calibration rings facilitate in setting working length
Once you lose a tooth you will continue to lose bone, this condition is called bone resorption. This dental problem affects about 28 million Americans, and increases the patient risk factor for tooth loss, bone loss, and periodontal disease, according to AGD. To restore your smile and prevent further damage, your dentist can offer you several options. If you feel pain in your jaw, and think that you are experiencing
The Dr. Edward B. Shils Entrepreneurial Fund has announced the recipients of the 2015 Shils Awards. The awards recognize people, organizations, and programs that positively influence the dental community and public oral health, according to the organization. They are named after the late Edward B. Shils, PhD, JD, who was executive director of the Dental Manufacturers of America and the Dental Dealers of America for almost 50 years. He was also
Female adolescents in the U.S. with health insurance had low HPV vaccination in 2013, according to an October 29 synopsis in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Increasing delivery of HPV vaccination at the recommended ages of 11 or 12 years, before most adolescents are exposed to the virus, will help ensure adolescents are protected against cancers caused by HPV infections,”
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) has awarded a University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) professor a $1.75 million grant to implement a collaborative oral health training program for predoctoral students The program, Predoctoral Training in General, Pediatric, and Public Health Dentistry and Dental Hygiene, will be led by Brent Lin, DMD, a professor at the UCSF School of Dentistry. Dr. Lin will
is proud to be part of October Breast Cancer Awareness Month campaign. Consciousness on this subject should be present all year long. Yet, as you know, our services focus in the dental area. Being breast cancer awareness so important, we want to end this month by sharing with you blogs where you can find information about it. No matter if you’re just preventing, you’re newly diagnosed, or you have defeated
Hookah smoking is associated with serious oral conditions, such as periodontal diseases and cancer, according to new research published in the Journal of the American Dental Association. The authors conducted a literature review that focused on water pipe smoking and head and neck conditions. They found water pipe smoking to be associated with periodontal diseases, dry socket, oral cancer, and esophageal cancer (JADA, October 2015, Vol. 146:10, pp. 760-766). “This