Dental News and Technology

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Macomb Daily PUBLISHED: February 2, 2022 at 8:44 a.m. | UPDATED: February 2, 2022 at 8:45 a.m. [link] Macomb County jury deliberates only two hours A Macomb County jury awarded $400,000 to a patient of a dentist who was accused of injecting a numbing solution into the wrong spot, causing the man to lose most of the taste and feeling in his tongue. The eight-person panel unanimously agreed last Friday an insurance company should pay Christopher Vlaminck a $100,000 lump sum and $300,000 based on $

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YapiApp

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Learn How to Reactivate Inactive Patients and Download Free Dental Recall Email Templates! Grab a Copy! Let’s face it, most people don’t like to go to the dentist. Research from the CDC shows that even before the pandemic, more than one-third of adults hadn’t visited the dentist in the past year. Such a large pool of inactive patients also represents missed production opportunities for dentists.

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Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

National World Cancer Day fell on February 4 this year. In recognition, OraCare created the “Your Order, Their Relief ” program, which donates a complimentary set of OraCare Rinse products to patients undergoing cancer therapy every time participating oral health professionals purchase OraCare Rinse for their offices. OraCare products are available only through dental practices, and they offer a wide array of solutions to oral health problems, including the deleterious oral side effects of

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Best Online Marketing Companies for Dentists

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In our last blog article, we looked at the Wall Street Journal’s analysis of how consumers really use online reviews, and what you thought you knew about reviews might not necessarily be true. In this follow-up post, looking at the WSJ’s “The Smartest Ways to Use Online Reviews When Shopping” article, we’ll focus on the ways patients might perceive and even misconstrue some of the reviews out there, and what you can do to head that off!

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The Dental Elf

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

This review of the effectiveness of Interproximal enamel reduction (IPR) techniques used in orthodontics included 10 small studies. The included studies were small and of very low to low quality so the findings should be viewed cautiously. The post Interproximal enamel reduction in orthodontics appeared first on National Elf Service.

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Coaches Corner

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Banned phrases for 2022 – asking for a friend! Every year Lake Superior State University publishes its list of phrases that should be banned. Here are some that they say need to go in 2022 (with our commentary of course)! 1) “No worries!” Unless you’re a server at Outback, this one should have bitten the dust twenty years ago. 2) “At the end of the day” At the end of the day, this one is just as overused as “iconic.” 3) “Wait, what?

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Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Results of a study recently published in Nature Medicine emphasize the fact that COVID-19 is most definitely not the flu. Upon examination of the health records of more than 11 million United States veterans, the risk for serious heart conditions—including heart attacks, arrhythmias, strokes, transient ischemic attacks, heart failure, inflammatory heart disease, cardiac arrest, pulmonary embolism, and deep vein thrombosis—was higher among those who had recovered from COVID-19 during the past ye

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