Mon.Dec 14, 2020

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How Can Dentists Improve Dental Care Using a Mobile Application?

Oral Health Group

Like most other healthcare niches, dental and oral care facilities and experts have started to adopt mobile apps. Many dental care facilities have started to utilize mobile apps to the advantage of dental care treatment and practices. There is no … The post How Can Dentists Improve Dental Care Using a Mobile Application? appeared first on Oral Health Group.

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Introducing FULL CONTACT™ Cosmedent’s New Sectional Matrix Bands

Dental News and Technology

Cosmedent’s new FULL CONTACT ™ sectional matrix bands have a multitude of advantages for the clinician: they are ultrathin and easy to place, pre-contoured for complete contact and resilient, holding their shape once placed. These new matrix bands can wedge from both buccal and lingual sides ensuring a complete gingival seal. They can also be used with any ring system or alone.

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No shortcuts for preventing tooth decay

ASDA Blog

Here’s some not-so-sweet news: Americans are consuming too much sugar. The American Heart Association reports that U.S. adults consume an average of 77 grams of sugar per day, which is more than three times the recommended amount. Diets high in sugar can lead to tooth decay. Sugar is the most important factor in the development of dental caries.

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Extraction with an electric motor-driven handpiece may still cause subcutaneous emphysema - A case report

Dental News and Technology

Journal of Dental Sciences Available online 24 November 2020 In Press, Corrected Proof What are Corrected Proof articles? Correspondence Extraction with an electric motor-driven handpiece may still cause subcutaneous emphysema - A case report Author links open overlay panel Bo-Jen Chiou † Shan-Ju Chou † Dennis Chun-Yu Ho Chih-Yuan Fang Show more Share Cite [link] Get rights and content Under a Creative Commons license open access Keywords Subcutaneous emphysema Extraction complication Dental iat

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Strategies to Support Compliance With Multi-Dose COVID-19 Vaccinations

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

The first person in the United States to receive the new Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine, a New York nurse, received the initial dose on December 14. But without the second shot required 21 days after the initial one, the first dose of Pfizer’s vaccine only offers about 52% effectiveness. To reach the holy grail of 95% efficacy, the patient must return for a second dose.

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Prepare Now and Get Your Solo Dental Practice Ready for 2021

Planet DDS

“If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” - Maya Angelou. The relevance of Angelou ’ s poetic perspective is accurate. Where you ’ ve “come from” in 2020 will prepare you to get your solo dental practice ready for 2021.

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Success Simplified – Impressioning Series – Spanish

3M

Learn how to identify and eliminate errors in the Prosthodontic protocol through simplification and standardization. Register Now for the Webinar “10 Reglas de oro para lograr impresiones perfectas” in Spanish, February 11th at 09:00 pm. Our speaker: Dr. Elena Cabrera. 3M Scientific Affairs & Education Specialist Dental Procedures. Numerous innovative dental materials and new techniques have been developed in recent decades, but they increase the complexity of the decision-making

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9 KPIs to Track for Your General Dentistry Practice

The Big Brush

Your dental practice, at its foundation, is a business. Like any business, you will want it to make enough revenue that you can keep the bills paid and you and your staff stay employed. And just like a business, key performance indicators can be a help in understanding your profitability (or lack of) and what decisions you need to make as a result.

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Another Covid-19 Related Scam

Denticle

As I've mentioned here many times in the past, one of the things that cyber criminals use to great effect is Social Engineering. Basically, if you can get someone to do something for you, that makes your job that much easier. And crooks are good at it. Utilizing tricks such as emails that have an attachment that, when opened, lets the criminal gain control, to calling someone and convincing them to give up their username and password, hackers use social engineering to gain control.

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The Many Advantages of Dental Implants

Cherokee Dental Professionals

Dental implants have become the standard for long-term tooth replacement. From mechanics to movie stars, people from all walks of life have discovered the advantages of replacing a missing tooth.