Product Spotlights   July 2017   A.R. Medicom     New Duraflor Ultra is Medicom's next generation of white fluoride varnish offering our…

Center for Health Workforce Studies Releases Dental Hygiene Scope of Practice Infographic ALBANY, N.Y. (July 21, 2017) Oral health workforce researchers at University at Albany’s Center for Health Workforce Studies (CHWS) have released an…

Colgate and Academy for Academic Leadership Launch Online Faculty Training Program to Help Develop the Foundations of Clinical Research  New York, New York Colgate Palmolive is proud to announce the launch of an online faculty…

Prefabricated Blood Vessels May Improve Root Canal Therapy Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University have developed a process that produces blood vessels in teeth. The finding holds promise for improving long term outcomes in…

Fruit Juice Not Recommended for Children Younger Than Age 1 The American Academy of Pediatrics has updated its fruit juice guidelines to state that, unless there is a strong clinical basis for its use, fruit juice should not be given

New Vaccine Technology Combats Antibiotic Resistant Staph Infections The University of Maryland, Baltimore (UMB), has granted worldwide, exclusive licensing rights for a new vaccine technology to Serenta Biotechnology, a Gaithersburg,…

Study Suggests Primary Teeth May Link Autism and Heavy Metals Primary teeth from children with autism may hold answers to how early exposure to metals—and how a child’s body processes them—can affect the risk of autism, according to a…

No Link Found Between Academic Test Results and Early Oral Cleft Surgery   The Cleft Palate–Craniofacial Journal – Researchers have often suspected that early exposure to surgery and anesthesia is linked to cognitive impairment later in…

OSAP Announces Recipients of Infection Control Leadership Awards  July 11, 2017 (ATLANTA, GA) — The Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP), a community of clinicians, educators, consultants, researchers and industry…

NYU Dental Researchers Identify Promising Target to Protect Bone in Patients with Diabetes  Utilizing metabolomics research techniques, NYU Dentistry researchers investigated the underlying biochemical activity and signaling within the…