Wed.Sep 01, 2021

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Is It Sinus Pain?

Ask The Dentist

This week’s listener question concerns the relationship between sinus infections and tooth pain. Our skulls can often be compared to a laptop, not just because of its processing power, but also because it has so many intricate parts compressed inside a small space. For this reason, it can often be difficult to differentiate between sinus pain and tooth pain.

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Training Dental Teams How to Schedule Patients

Delivering Wow

As practices open back up from pandemic shutdowns, scheduling patients is becoming more of a challenge. We have to consider that we want to practice social distancing inside of our practices. We have production targets and financial obligations. And, of course, we need to safely care for patients. As you begin to have more demand on your schedule, these challenges will become tougher to overcome.

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Cellerant Announces the 2021 Best of Class Technology Award Winners

Dental News and Technology

Washington, DC; September 1, 2021 — Cellerant Consulting Group is pleased to announce the 2021 Cellerant Best of Class Technology Award winners. “During such a challenging year in dentistry, these extraordinary companies and their technologies have earned the right to celebrate for their perseverance and commitment to technological innovation,” said Dr.

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Does Your Dental Practice Have the Right Phone System?

YapiApp

Provide Exceptional Patient Service with the Right Phone System in Place. Don’t let important things go unnoticed. Add more automation to your phone system. Did you know that 48% of patients still prefer to book their appointments over the phone? Even as patient demand for digital and online interactions continue to accelerate, the phone still holds a prominent place amid day-to-day interactions at the dental office.

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Oral health-related quality of life among a group of patients with substance use disorders in rehabilitation treatment: a cross-sectional study

Dental News and Technology

BMC Oral Health volume 21 , Article number: 409 ( 2021) details Abstract Background Little is known about the effect of illicit drugs on oral health-related quality of life. Our aim was to investigate oral health-related quality among patients with substance use disorders, and its association with dental caries experience and drug use profile. Methods Applying a stratified cluster random sampling method, we conducted a cross-sectional study on 267 in-treatment patients with substance use disorde

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How Video Marketing May Help You Gain More Dental Patients

The Big Brush

Video marketing is an increasingly popular tool for content aimed at growing businesses, dental and medical practices included. Why? Video marketing helps your practice to attract more patients, similarly to written blogs and social media posts. In addition, this trending medium may feature some important extra benefits you may not get with written marketing.

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The art of multitasking

ASDA Blog

Whether you are on the road to embarking on your dental school journey or already immersed in the rollercoaster ride called “dental school,” one of the most valuable assets you can acquire to enjoy the process of this journey is multitasking. However, it’s important to make sure you are multitasking efficiently. Saying no to distractions is the hardest but most important first step to mastering this skill.

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Dental Treatment Depends on What's Really Causing Your Tooth Pain

North Suburban Endodontics

Not all toothaches are alike: Some are sharp and last only a second or two; others throb continuously. You might feel the pain in one tooth, or it could be more generalized. Because there are as many causes as there are kinds of dental pain, you can expect a few questions on specifics when you come to us with a toothache. Understanding first what kind of pain you have will help us more accurately diagnose the cause and determine the type of treatment you need.

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What Links Oral Health & Overall Health?

Modern Family Dental

When it comes to being healthy, the immediate thoughts that come to mind of most patients are working out, eating healthy, and sleeping well. While wellness activities can ensure a healthy mind and body, most of us often forget to also include healthy dental practices to maintain our oral health. As a trusted dentist in Charlotte & Concord , Modern Family Dental Care aims to remind patients about the importance of oral health to our overall health.

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Risks Associated With SARS-CoV-2 Infection Greater Than COVID-19 Vaccine

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

A new study published in the New England Journal of Medicine shows the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine has a strong safety profile. The study included the records of more than 2.4 million vaccinated individuals and 240,000 people infected with SARS-CoV-2. Researchers found that the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine was associated with increased risk for swelling of the lymph nodes (78.4 events per 100,000 individuals), shingles (15.8 events), appendicitis (5.0 events), and myocarditis (2.7 events).

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How Can You Personalize Your Dental Care Services Using Technology?

Logic Tech Corp

Dental patients, just like any other type of customer, don’t want to be treated the same as everybody. Your patients crave more personal attention as they feel that their needs are more special than the rest. Attention to detail still works just like the old times, but clinics can now easily pull out all patient preferences and treatment history in just one click when combing it with technology.

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Building Your Dental Practice’s 2022 Marketing Plan: How to Set Goals

Best Online Marketing Companies for Dentists

As we head into the back-end of 2021 and continue moving toward some form of normalcy, it’s time to start planning your 2022 marketing strategy. At TNT Dental, we help our clients think about practice growth objectives and steps they can take to get from their goals to accomplishments and successes. Developing a comprehensive marketing plan for your dental practice is one of the steps to achieving those goals… but, laying the groundwork for that marketing strategy starts now.

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Wingers Integrated Barrier by Steri-Shield

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

Steri-Shield now offers Wingers I. B. (Integrated Barrier), a disposable bitewing that features three products in one. Wingers I.B. provides a sensor holder already inside a comfort padded, elastic, seamless, infection control barrier. This reduces clinical set-up time to obtain a radiological image from approximately 60 seconds to 5 seconds with average cost savings over purchasing three separate items of up to 20%, according to the company.

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Essential steps for long-lasting restorations

3M

Are you concerned about the longevity of restorations? We invite you to participate in the new webinar with Doc. dr. Gaivil? Pilei?ikien? ” Essential steps for long-lasting restorations” for general practice dentists and learn how to manage various risk factors and improve the service life of restorations. September 16th at 05:00 pm CET, Finland (English language).

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Immunity Derived from Covid-19 Infection is Much Greater That What is Achieved from Vaccination

Denticle

A study that appeared last week on the medRxiv website has some interesting information. Basically what the study found was that individuals who have been infected by the SARS-CoV-2 virus have greater immunity than individuals that received a vaccine. We can call this guardedly optimistic information for those who have been infected and recovered. It *seems* that this might potentially make them less susceptible to a reinfection in the future.

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Clinical Case: Adult Sealants, An Effective Prevention Tool

3M

The post Clinical Case: Adult Sealants, An Effective Prevention Tool appeared first on 3M Dental Blog.

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