ORAL HEALTH AMERICA IMPACTS THE NATION’S SMILES THROUGH GALA & BENEFIT    February 29, 2012, CHICAGO, IL Oral Health America (OHA), a national non profit organization founded in 1955 and headquartered in Chicago, raised over $500,000 at…

ADHA Applauds Senate Subcommittee Hearing on Access to Oral Health Care Issues   Chicago, February 29, 2012 – The American Dental Hygienists’ Association commends the SenateSubcommitteeon Primary Health and Aging for continuing to…

ADHA Partners with CDEWorld to Deliver Online Continuing Education   Chicago—The American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) has announced that it is providing continuing education courses through an online partner, CDEWorld. This…

DUX Dental Supports Tenth Anniversary of "Give Kids a Smile" Program and National Children's Dental Health Month Pediatric Dental Supplies Enable Dentists to Keep Littlest Patients Smiling OXNARD, Calif., Feb. 29, 2012 (GLOBE…

INFECTION CONTROL ALERT Dear Healthcare Professional, As a public service announcement, we would like to draw your attention to a recent malpractice case involving the violation of compliance for biological monitoring. On December 8, 2011,…

  3M ESPE Named "Most Innovative" for Seventh Consecutive Year    ST. PAUL, Minn. – (Feb. 21, 2012) – 3M ESPE was recently named the most innovative company in the worldwide dental industry for the seventh…

Survey Reveals Concerning Prescription Practices  According to new research, dentists may be overprescribing medications per guidelines set forth by the American Dental Association (ADA) and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD).…

Antiretroviral Drugs May Cause Cleft Lip and Palate Women who are pregnant and infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) may protect their unborn children from the disease by taking antiretroviral drugs. But, according to a study…

Survey Reveals Concerning Prescription Practices According to new research, dentists may be overprescribing medications per guidelines set forth by the American Dental Association (ADA) and American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD).…

Antimicrobial Scrubs Can Reduce Spread of Bacteria Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) have determined that wearing antimicrobial impregnated scrubs, coupled with good hand hygiene, can reduce the spread of methicillin…