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Spore Testing Is the Backbone of Dental Infection Control
Routine spore testing confirms sterilizer performance, safeguards patients, and keeps dental practices compliant with CDC and OSHA…
Medicaid Cuts Push Dentists Out and Patients Pay the Price
Cut reimbursement, lose dentists. Who pays the price when Medicaid access disappears?
Arizona’s Oral Preventive Assistant Debate: Expanding Access or Lowering the…
Arizona wants dental assistants cleaning teeth with less training. Will patients pay the price?
Kentucky Tables Assistant Scaling Proposal as Practice Act Moves Forward…
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Study Calls for Reimagining of Dental Outreach Programs
While international travel may not be top-of-mind for most right now, many oral health professionals volunteer their time and expertise on dental mission trips. But how effective are these outreach programs?
Impact of COVID-19 on Dentistry Could Be Far-Reaching
The novel coronavirus pandemic has changed the landscape of our lives for the time being. But what is the overall impact of COVID-19 on 21st-century dentistry?
Public Health Departments Struggle to Prepare for Vaccine Rollout
While the United States has spent more than $10 billion on vaccine development, funds have not been allocated to support public health departments in rolling out two COVID-19 vaccines that may be ready as early as late October or the…
COVID-19 Cases Go Undiagnosed Among Frontline Healthcare Professionals
Approximately 69% of COVID-19 infections went undiagnosed among 3,000 frontline healthcare professionals between April and June in 12 states, according to new research published in the United States Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.…
Guardian Study: Eight in 10 Adults Say They Plan to Return to Dentist by Year-End 2020
Guardian's Workplace Benefits Study, "Dental Benefits 2020," reports nearly three in 10 patients say they are more anxious about visiting the dentist since the COVID-19 outbreak, however, 3 in 4 adults will be comfortable going to the…
Biopharmaceutical Industry Leaders Call for Principled Approach to COVID-19 Vaccines and Therapies
In a letter to the biopharmaceutical industry, CEOs from Ovid Therapeutics, Nkarta Therapeutics, Global Blood Therapeutics, Biotechnology Innovation Organization, Acorda Therapeutics, GlycoMimetics, Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, and Alkermes…
Supporting Enamel in Soft Drink Consumers
This information is from the article What Advice Can Be Offered to Patients with Soft Tooth Enamel? By Martha McComas, RDH, MS. To read the article, click here.
CDC Says Two Vaccines Will Be Ready by October or November
As yet unidentified, Vaccine A and Vaccine B should be ready for national distribution by late October or early November, according to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The vaccines will initially be used…
JOMS Study: For Jaw Cancer Patients, In-House 3D Printing Allows Quicker Restoration of Teeth
A study published in the August issue of the Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, the journal of the American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, suggests in-house three-dimensional (3D) printing results in patients with…
Effective Management of Dental Aerosols
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