50 high-burden communities will be selected to address social determinants of health.

A University of Bristol study assessed how much xylitol is released in medicated chewing gum by using a robot to replicate human chewing motion. This development may provide opportunities to refine drug release from gum via this delivery…

Two University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) projects have received funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research to continue studies of hydrogel therapies. The teams hope the projects will lead to…

A new meta-analysis published in the American Journal of Epidemiology found that of those healthcare professionals who tested positive for COVID-19, 40% were asymptomatic. The data were gleaned from more than 230,000 healthcare…

American pharmaceutical giant, Johnson & Johnson is beginning the last stage of clinical trials on its innovative one-shot vaccine for COVID-19. Encompassing 60,000 subjects, the Phase 3 trial began on September 21 and will test the…

This information is from the article Implications of Biofilms in Dental Unit Waterlines by Kandis V. Garland, RDH, MS. To read the article, click here.

Penn Dental Medicine is among the 23 statewide awardees from the administration of Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolff to advance coronavirus research. The award to the lab of Henry Daniell, PhD, W.D. Miller Professor in the Department of Basic…

 Most use flavored products, and disposable product use has increased.

Tragically, more than than 200,000 Americans have died due to COVID-19. The president of the American Medical Association, Susan R. Bailey, MD, highlighted the devastation brought on by the pandemic by remembering the sadness of those…

Occasionally, dental practices may experience a clinician who does not return from a break to see patients on his or her schedule.