The United States Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is serious about ensuring dental practices follow COVID-19 safety restrictions. The agency recently fined a Georgetown, Massachusetts dental practice $9,500 for failing…

DentaQuest, the nation’s leading purpose-driven oral health organization, has announced its 2020 Health Equity Heroes – Heroes in the Time of COVID-19.

FAIR Health—a nonprofit organization focused on the study of healthcare and health insurance costs and utilization—released a new study, “Dental Services and the Impact of COVID-19: An Analysis of Private Claims,” that looks at the effects…

Smoking cigarettes may have been on the decline for a decade, but two trends have become popular with Californians between the ages of 18 and 25: electronic cigarettes and marijuana.

A small Chinese study showed that among those hospitalized with COVID-19, the percentage of those who wore eyeglasses for more than 8 hours per day was less (5.8%) than the rate of myopia in the general population (31.5%). The authors…

Researchers from the Graduate School of Tokyo Dental College, Ziauddin University, Hayatabad Medical Complex, and King Saud University attempted to regenerate a biocompatible osteodentin-like, hard-tissue matrix in order to replace…

The American Dental Association (ADA) has expressed its support of House Bill Small Business PPE Tax Credit Act (HR 7216), which provides a tax credit for small businesses to offset the expense of purchasing personal protective equipment…

A Phase 3 clinical trial on a COVID-19 vaccine being developed by AstraZeneca in partnership with Oxford University was put on hold after a participant in the United Kingdom (UK)-based study developed severe spinal cord inflammation. The…

This information is from the article What Can I Recommend to Patients Who Abstain From Fluoride? By Erin Relich, RDH, BSDH, MSA. To read the article, click here.

Colibactin, a toxin produced by bacteria that often live in the gut, is linked to some cancer mutations.