A fatal case of sepsis linked to untreated dental caries underscores how oral disease can rapidly escalate into life-threatening systemic infection. The case highlights the critical role of early dental intervention in preventing deep neck…
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Speak Out Against Expanding Anesthesia to Dental Assistants by December 18!
A California pilot program proposing to allow expanded function dental assistants to administer local anesthesia threatens to blur…
California’s System of Providing Dental Care Is in Crisis
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A new California pilot program would allow dental assistants to administer local anesthesia, a move many dentists welcome for…
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Two Minutes With Your Dentist Can Save Your Life” Campaign Lets Marylanders Know that Dentists Play an Important Role in Overall Health.
ADA Commends Efforts to Update Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health
The American Dental Association (ADA) commends the federal agencies that announced an update is in the works to the 2000 Surgeon General’s Report on oral health.
NIH Addresses Dentists’ Role in Controlling Opioid Crisis
Nora Volkow, MD, director at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and Martha J. Somerman, DDS, PhD, director, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, have released the commentary titled “The role of the oral health…
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Majority of parents disclose their child has oral health issues.
Iain L.C. Chapple Received the 2018 IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Research in Periodontal…
The International Association for Dental Research (IADR) announced Iain L.C. Chapple, University of Birmingham, England, as the 2018 recipient of the IADR Distinguished Scientist Award in Research in Periodontal Disease
White Paper Stresses Importance of Oral Health Care Benefit for Older Adults
Oral Health America (OHA), along with a diverse group of partners, released a white paper, An Oral Health Benefit in Medicare Part B: It’s Time to Include Oral Health in Health Care.
Lack of Mouth Microbe May Put HIV-Infected Youth At Higher Risk of Caries
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International Research Team Discovers New Method of Regenerating Dental Enamel
Researchers at Queen Mary University of London may have discovered a new way to produce materials capable of regenerating dental enamel.
Palmero Healthcare Contest Brings Smiles to Practices and Patients Everywhere
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