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Innovative universal composite saves the smile of a Tulane University student SOUTH BEND, INDIANA – Heraeus Kulzer, LLC, the worldwide leader in dental esthetics, recently launched a new initiative entitled TLC: Transforming Lives Chronicles. The campaign involves a series of news releases about dental professionals nationwide who have used the company’s materials to create a [...]

Source: University of Maryland  Newswise — Scientists using nanotechology at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry have created the first cavity-filling composite that kills harmful bacteria and regenerates tooth structure lost to bacterial decay. Rather than just limiting decay with conventional fillings, the new composite is a revolutionary dental weapon to control harmful bacteria, [...]

  MAKING CONNECTIONS Making a genuine connection and establishing trust is critical to your success at work.  We all have the capacity to create an immediate human connection that results in trust and rapport, which in the competitive healthcare business can help you maximize every opportunity for success. Patients want to connect with your personal [...]

Close to 50% of all dentists in North America are using digital x-rays, either hard sensors or phosphor plate systems. While we tend to spend a lot of time agonizing over the choice of which systems to get, many dentists fail to recognize the importance of making sure they have the proper infrastructure in place first…and that [...]

              Not a Laughing Matter   What you need to know about the Ministry of Labour Occupational Health and Safety Inspections 1.  They are going to happen! 2.  You need to be prepared! 3.  The requirements may seem daunting, but you likely have many systems in place, so relax…it [...]

One of the biggest mistakes that I see dentists making is how they backup their data. Pretty much all backup systems work: external drives, tape, CD/DVD, online…almost all will likely give you a proper backup of your data. However, that’s not the question to ask. The real question is, “If my server goes down, how [...]

I wanted to take this opportunity to introduce myself. My name is Dr. Lorne Lavine but many people know me as The Digital Dentist. I was born and raised in Toronto and practiced as a periodontist for 10 years. For the past 12 years, I’ve devoted myself exclusively to working with dentists to help them [...]

(As if there isn’t enough to think about!) The Ministry of Labour is conducting Health and Safety Inspection Blitzes across Ontario and targeting the health care sector. Is your office ready? Here are just a few things that you need to know – Depending on the size of your office, you need to have a [...]

By Kathleen Maclay, Media Relations University of California, Berkeley, student Hường Trần has such dazzling smile, it’s hard to imagine she hasn’t always been flashing that 1,000-volt grin… But Trần, a 21-year-old integrative biology major and aspiring oral surgeon, underwent numerous medical and oral surgeries and bone grafts starting at age one to repair a [...]

This is an endo related post. For those who are upset about my antipathy towards single file endodontics, rest assured, it will not be referenced, nor should you take away any sense that endodontic microsurgery and single file endodontics are mutually inclusive.  It’s a blog folks, take from it what you will.  I want to [...]

Source Dental IQ Zimmer Dental., a provider of dental oral rehabilitation products and a subsidiary of Zimmer Holdings, has announced the availability of Puros Cortico-Cancellous Particulate Allograft. The product is an anatomic-based mixture of cortical and cancellous bone, designed to provide clinicians with a way to simplify the grafting process. Composed of 70% cortical and 30% cancellous bone, Puros Cortico-Cancellous does [...]

http://www.take5withmarty.com/ Wonderful effort by Dr. Marty Jablow…..imagine if OH or the CDA created such a channel and used it to chat up dentistry across the country….spectacular addendum to the elearning section of Oral Health…..fabulous way to introduce the bright and leading lights of the Canadian Dental Community – now if we only had a sponsor……hmmmmm [...]

One of the lads on the ROOTS forum read the original blog entry and sent the following along…….sharing and caring is simply nothing more than putting material and I guess, yourself, out there………other than being able to bomb a nuclear facility, staying under the radar achieves very little when it applies to things other than [...]

A friend was reading some of the blog postings on endodontics and sent this along to share. I include it because the YOUTUBE is in Spanish and yet, it still speaks volumes. Interesting article for your perusal…http://www.slideshare.net/kendo160/m4-handpiece  Gambarini G et al. Cyclic fatigue analysis of twisted file rotary NiTi instruments used in reciprocating motion - International [...]

ANSWERING TOUGH PATIENT QUESTIONS WITH GREAT ANSWERS Why do I have to pay for an examination? In a clinical exam, the doctor diagnoses not just tooth decay and gum disease, but she looks for signs of potentially serious health conditions, including bone infections and oral cancer.  It’s the most important part of preventive dentistry, which [...]

Since this blog began, its focus has been to determine what those who visit it some 8.5K times a month want to read. Clinical content is by far the #1 area of interest. Unfortunately, a simplistic mechanism to ensure an ongoing content stream has not as yet been developed. The shared material needed is nothing more [...]