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Federal investments in community-based dental residency programs are creating a new generation of dentists prepared to serve rural,…
The Esther Wilkins Lifetime Achievement Award Honors Icon in Dental Hygiene…
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Why Routine Patient Shielding May No Longer Be Necessary
Advances in digital imaging, rectangular collimation, and modern radiation science are challenging decades-old shielding practices.
Rice University Students Harness AI to Transform the Front Desk
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Massachusetts Medical School Launches 100 Million Mouths Campaign
The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School in Worcester has initiated the 100 Million Mouths: Creating Primary Care Champions for Equitable Oral Health Campaign to further the integration of medicine and dentistry. The program will…
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As dental hygienists are well aware, successful treatment of periodontal diseases is influenced by many factors. Ensuring the appropriate recare interval is one of the keys to the long-term…
Chain of Dental Clinics to Pay Patients $2 Million
ImmediaDent of Indiana, a group of dental clinics located throughout Indiana, will pay $2 million to patients who paid for services they never received in an agreement brokered by the state’s Attorney General Todd Rokita. The chain of…
New York Finds Polio Virus in its Wastewater
During the last week of July, the first case of polio in more than 9 years was diagnosed in Rockland County, New York. The individual was not vaccinated against the transmissible virus. Now, the New York Department of Health announced that…
Dental Students and Older Adults Connect in Innovative Program
Through an innovative program at the University of Colorado (CU) Anschutz Medical Campus, students from the Schools of Dental Medicine, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nursing, and Medicine are paired with older adults in the…
Mobile Dentistry Comes to the Workplace
A retrofitted van visiting schools and public health events in areas with limited access to professional dental care is what typically comes to mind when mobile dentistry is mentioned. However, Jet Dental is redefining what mobile dentistry…
Monkeypox Is Now a Public Health Emergency
With more than 6,000 diagnosed cases of monkeypox in the United States, the US Department of Health and Human services labeled the virus a public health emergency on August 4. Endemic to Africa, monkeypox is spreading more quickly than…
Less Than Half of Private Dental Practices Offer Health Insurance Benefits
Many dental practices are struggling to fill vacant positions, particularly dental hygienists. Research from the American Dental Association (ADA) and American Dental Hygienists’ Association shows that during the pandemic, 8% of dental…
Pennsylvania Coalition for Oral Health Releases Troubling Workforce Report
Pennsylvania residents have seen a 10% reduction in the dental care workforce, lower pay for all dental workers, $6.3M in annual state tax revenue losses, and the loss of $73M in yearly rural labor income.
‘The UMB Pulse’ Podcast Explores the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry
The latest edition of the University of Maryland, Baltimore’s podcast “The UMB Pulse” features the Dr. Samuel D. Harris National Museum of Dentistry, home to more than 40,000 dental artifacts—including George Washington’s dentures.…
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