The U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly passed a bill on March 26 to continue funding the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), but it will be at least another two weeks before the Senate votes on the bill. CHIP, which covers essential health and dental needs for U.S. children, is currently set to expire on September 30. If passed by the Senate and signed by President Barack Obama, the bill, HR
The Brush Early Childhood Oral Health Curriculum, a literacy-based oral health education program, will be coming to Head Start programs in more than 40 Georgia counties. More than 4,000 preschool-aged children, their parents and caregivers, and 320 teachers across the state will participate in the 52-week curriculum, which is aimed at improving the oral health and school readiness of children entering kindergarten. Participating children will receive weekly lessons on good
Convergent Dental unveiled its new Ultraguide handpiece and a 15/400 hollow waveguide and automatic alignment system for its Solea laser at the Thomas P. Hinman Dental Meeting in Atlanta. The Ultraguide handpiece and the 15/400 hollow waveguide is specifically designed for access to the periodontal pocket and other hard-to-reach areas in the oral cavity, according to the company. The handpiece will be delivered with the automatic alignment system, which detects
Dear Anesthesia & Pain Management Insider, Do you understand the drug interactions that may impair the effectiveness of sedation in special needs patients? Do you know how the medications a patient is taking might interact with propofol, and how this changes your treatment strategy? The findings from a study by Japanese researchers will help you ask the right questions when treating these, and other, patients. Find out more in the
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