Midlevel dental providers — aka “superhygienists” — could soon be performing extractions, restorations, and other dental procedures in Minnesota. May 2008 legislation mandated the creation

Indiana Nanotech announced this week that global toothpaste manufacturer 3M ESPE is now using the Indiana company’s calcium phosphate technology in its new Clinpro 5000

Editor’s note: Jimmy Earll (not his real name) is a practicing dentist in Northern California and a stand-up comic who performs all over North America.

OralDNA Labs, a specialty diagnostics company that provides laboratory testing to the dental community, has reached an agreement to provide diagnostic testing for practices within

Dental Network of America (DNoA) preferred network dentists in Illinois, Oklahoma, and New Mexico can now purchase Sonicare products with discounts of more than 50%,

The holidays offer dentists another opportunity to warn patients about the consequences of candy and soda overdoses — but exchanging kisses underneath the mistletoe, too?

Floss, floss, floss! Dentists and their staff spend a lot of time driving that simple message home to their patients. But what if it’s too

The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Dentistry has received the largest grant in its history: $24.4 million, from the National Institutes of

For men, especially older men, dieting may help reduce the risk of gum disease more than for women, according to researchers at the University of

The first class of dental health aide therapists (DHATs) to be trained in Alaska has graduated, according to a KTUU TV news story. The four

Scientists at the University of Michigan claim that gene therapy can be used to successfully stop the development of periodontal disease, according to a university

Consider this: Your patient needs an extraction but has received oral bisphosphonate therapy. Invasive procedures can go wrong in such cases because bisphosphonate drugs can