Tampa-based ProBiora HealthTM is proudly sponsoring Creating Smiles One Mile at a Time, a historic bike ride across the country to benefit Smile For a Lifetime.
This information is from the article Clinical Insights: What We Know and Don’t Know About Dental Aerosols by Stephen K. Harrel, DDS. To read the article, click here.
Scientists are questioning the effectiveness of vaccines made in China and Russia due to their dependence on the adenovirus, a common cold virus that most people have already encountered. Both the Russian and Chinese vaccines use a modified…
Legionnaire’s disease is a respiratory illness associated with the inhalation or aspiration of water sources (aerosols) contaminated with Legionella pneumophila bacteria. There are more than 50 Legionella species with L. pneumophila being…
The United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Abbott Laboratories emergency authorization for its $5, 15-minute COVID-19 test. The antigen test is point-of-care, meaning that no lab or equipment is needed to process the…
A collaboration between the FDI World Dental Federation and the International Consortium for Health Outcomes Measurement (ICHOM), have developed a minimum Adult Oral Health Standard Set (AOHSS) for use in clinical practice, research,…
Faculty in the University of Illinois Chicago College of Dentistry and College of Engineering have collaborated on strategies to make the provision of oral health care at the university’s dental clinic safer during the global pandemic. The…
An antiparasitic medication prescribed for river blindness is currently in use in some countries, including Bolivia and Peru, as an off-label treatment for COVID-19. Australian researchers concluded in April that the medication, ivermectin,…
Cynthia C. Gadbury-Amyot, RDH, MSDH, EdD, Dimensions of Dental Hygiene Editorial Advisory Board member and author, is the recipient of the Gies Award for Innovation–Dental Educator.
Using advanced microscopy and chemical detection techniques, research supported in part by the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research has revealed the atomic makeup of human tooth enamel.