Kristen Pratt Machado is executive editor for Dimensions of Dental Hygiene and Decisions in Dentistry and director of publishing operations for Belmont Business Media. She has been with the company since its inception in 2001.
The new recommendations emphasize the role of dental visits as the key to reducing oral cancer deaths, which number more than 8,300 every year in the United States.
Who doesn’t love a giveaway? Sunstar GUM will gift one lucky dental hygienist with these fun prizes: adorable embroidered, personalized dental-themed quarter zip, fun sparkly tooth earrings, Dimensions of Dental Hygiene notebook, and…
Elmer E. González, MBA, PhD, RDH, CDA, earned the Sunstar World Dental Hygienist Award in Academia for empowering students through community-based service-learning initiatives.
The Respecting Fluoride for Kids Act would require insurers, including Medi-Cal, to cover fluoride varnish for children and young adults through age 21 without a copay.
After three decades in private practice, Rostyslav Stepanenko, DMD, is returning to Ukraine to volunteer his dental skills caring for the nation’s military veterans.
A nearly $2 million NIH grant aims to help dentists bring vital pulp therapy into everyday practice through hands-on training, case-based learning, and evidence-based treatment guidelines.
From periodontal charting and radiographic analysis to practice management and surgical planning, artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful clinical aid while leaving the final judgment in the clinician’s hands.
Jonathan E. Burke, DMD, a New Jersey oral and maxillofacial surgeon, will oversee the nation’s leading dental research institute and its $520 million research portfolio.
Congratulations to Susan Gorman, MEd, RDH, the August winner of the Sunstar Ebrief Giveaway. The clinical programs coordinator with the University of Florida College of Dentistry, Department of Community Dentistry and Behavioral Science…