The most recent survey of the American Dental Association (ADA) Health Policy Institute finds that 33% of dental practice owner respondents need more clinical team members to treat the same number of patients as they did prior to the…

Data from Johns Hopkins University show that the number of deaths due to COVID-19 in 2021 is higher than the total death toll in 2020 in the United States. Thus far, 386,000 deaths due to COVID-19 have been reported this year. In 2020, the…

The effectiveness of mRNA vaccines (such as those used to prevent COVID-19) is predicated on ensuring the vaccine reaches the cells without significant degradation. Scientists are now looking at whether the alternative medicine therapeutic,…

The White House released a statement indicating the United States will not go back into lockdown amid rising COVID-19 cases here and across Europe. Austria recently reinstituted lockdown measures in response to a new COVID-19 surge. The US…

A study out of the University of Toronto revealed that dentists are at lower risk of becoming infected with SARS-CoV-2 than the general public. Published in the Journal of the American Dental Association, the study included 644 Canadian…

Prior to the recommendation that all adults receive COVID-19 booster shots, people older than age 65 and those with comorbidities were at the front of the line. The list of qualifying preexisting conditions included mental health problems,…

As healthcare systems across the world struggled to effectively treat patients with COVID-19 with little data to go on, the use of antibiotics and other antimicrobials surged, leading to a dangerous rise in antibiotic resistance. According…

Pac-Dent, Inc. announced that it has acquired South East Instruments L.L.C. (SEI), the manufacturer and servicer of the Autoscaler®. This acquisition, along with the launch of the 25K and 30K magnetic ultrasonic inserts in Q1 2022, will…

With more than 15,800 new COVID-19 cases diagnosed within a 24-hour period, Austria has issued a total lockdown, lasting no more than 20 days, to help stem the surge. The country of 9 million had initially instituted a lockdown only for…

Michael Worobey, PhD, chair of the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona in Tucson, has created a timeline for the start of the global pandemic in Wuhan, China. The person identified as the earliest…