Once a national model for access to care, Chicago’s in-school dental program is losing providers fast amid mounting concerns over oversight, reimbursement, and clinical autonomy.
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Study Reveals Alarming Gap in School Dental Programs
New research shows children without prior dental visits are significantly less likely to receive school-based caries prevention.
What Oral Health Professionals Are Missing About Undiagnosed Diabetes
With millions of cases still undiagnosed, xerostomia may be one of the earliest warning signs oral health professionals can…
Michigan Licenses Its Second Dental Therapist While Other States Still Wait
As many states stall after passing dental therapy laws, Michigan moves forward with its second licensed provider.
February’s Sunstar Giveaway Winner Is Revealed
Congratulations to Courtney Sprynczynatyk, RDH, the February winner of the Sunstar ebrief Giveaway. Starting off her career in…
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Calaject Provides Computer-Assisted Local Anesthesia Delivery
Directa Dental Group’s (800-537-8765; directadentalusa.com) Calaject device for computer-assisted local anesthesia represents the company’s second generation of computer-assisted injection technology. The design goal was to provide a means…
COVID-19 Booster Shot Drastically Reduces Risk of Death
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that those who have received a COVID-19 booster shot are 97 times less likely to die from COVID-19 than those who are unvaccinated. Individuals who completed…
COVID-19 Cases Continue to Decline Across the US
The daily COVID-19 case rate is decreasing in every state except Maine after a peak that hit mid-January, due to the highly contagious Omicron variant. In other good news, the number of Americans hospitalized due to COVID-19 has declined by…
More Than 3.5 Million Americans Called Out Sick During One Week in January
January is traditionally known as the start of a new year but January 2022 will go down in the record books as the great sick out. More than 3.5 million Americans missed work the week of January 9 to 15, 2022, mainly due to COVID-19-related…
Study Shows Association Between Xylitol Chewing Gum and Reduced Risk of Preterm Birth
A cluster randomized trial of more than 9,600 participants in Malawi, a nation in South Central Africa, found that women who chewed xylitol gum during pregnancy experienced a reduction in preterm birth and low birth weight babies.…
Medicare Will Now Pay for At-Home Rapid COVID-19 Tests
When the federal government announced that private health insurers would cover the cost of up to eight at-home rapid COVID-19 tests per month for their policyholders on January 15, Medicare was not included—leaving millions of Americans out…
Organization Seeks to Help Implement Dental Therapy
While 13 states have passed legislation allowing licensure of dental therapists, red tape often impedes the ability of states to get these midlevel practitioners into the workforce. Pew Charitable Trusts reports that the National…
COVID-19 Testing: Must Employers Cover the Cost?
On January 13, the Supreme Court struck down the federal government’s requirement that companies with more than 100 employees either mandate COVID-19 vaccination or weekly testing. However, businesses may still want to test employees as a…
INTRODUCING IZZO™, A REVOLUTIONARY 4-IN-1 ORAL CARE SYSTEM FOR AT-HOME USE
Today, Premier® Dental, a global developer and manufacturer of dental and medical products, announces the launch of izzo™, an innovative new direct to consumer initiative designed to elevate at-home oral care. izzo™ is the first and only…
DentaQuest Continues Its Partnership With Florida to Provide Prevention-Based Oral Healthcare
Florida Healthy Kids—a public-private partnership that offers low-cost health and dental insurance for children ages 5 to 18 who reside in the state of Florida—will continue its contract with DentaQuest to provide dental managed care to…
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