New survey data reveal encouraging oral health habits among adults and children, along with some surprising gaps that oral health professionals can help close.
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When a Workplace Injury Becomes a Dental Case
After a 2012 accident left him in a coma, a Delaware man’s dental problems eventually became the subject of a workers’ compensation…
Help Anxious Patients See the Bigger Picture
Learn how advances in dental imaging and patient-centered communication can help address radiation concerns while supporting…
American Ingenuity or a Broken System?
Professional guitarist Shane Parish writes an album called ‘Dental Work’ to help cover more than $5,000 of dental expenses.
ADA Announces a Collaboration on Dental Hygiene Licensure
A press release announced some sort of joint agreement between the American Dental Association, Joint Commission on National Dental…
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Palmero Healthcare Contest Brings Smiles to Practices and Patients Everywhere
After 30 years of bringing smiles to patients, Palmero Healthcare's Happy Face design that’s synonymous with Palmero’s Cling Shield® X-ray apron brand, is getting a companion
Physician Assistants Show Improved Awareness of the Oral-Systemic Link
Research presented at the American Academy of Physician Assistants’ (AAPA) 2018 conference in New Orleans notes that while physician assistants (PAs) are working to improve their knowledge of oral health issues and the oral-systemic link,…
NYU Dentistry’s Nicole Scheff Receives NIH Grant to Study Interaction of Sensory Nerves and Oral…
Research could spur development of novel oral cancer therapeutic strategies that target sensory neurons.
Periodontal Disease May be a Key Initiator of RA
Patients at risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA) demonstrate higher levels of periodontal bacteria before evidence of the chronic inflammatory joint disease presents itself, according to results of a study presented at the 2018 Annual…
Review Helps Clinicians Understand Dental Implant Complications
Clinicians know that dental implant success requires the same maintenance as natural teeth.
Oral Health America Introduces State Spotlight Series
Following the release of A State of Decay, Vol. IV, a state by state analysis of the oral health of older adults 65+, Oral Health America (OHA) is introducing a State Spotlight series to ‘go beyond the score’ to share the actions and…
New UConn Dental Dean Named
The University of Connecticut has recruited Sharon M. Gordon, DDS, MPH, PhD, as UConn School of Dental Medicine’s next dean.
Pacific School of Dental Hygiene Studies Director Honored with National Award
Lisa Rowley, director of the Pacific University School of Dental Hygiene Studies, is one of just two recipients nationally to receive an Award of Excellence in Dental Hygiene from the American Dental Hygienists' Association.
ADHA Supports Eliminating Patient Procedure-Based Single Encounter Clinical Licensure Examination
The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) House of Delegates announced its support for the elimination of the patient procedure-based, single encounter clinical examination for candidates who are graduates of Commission on Dental…
ADHA Congratulates the AAP on the Release of the Proceedings from the 2017 World Workshop
With the recent release of the new periodontal disease classification system by the American Academy of Periodontology, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association released the following statement.
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