Dentistry Gone Digital

APRIL 9, 2021

By Dr. Bill Simon. A career in dentistry can certainly offer up its share of challenges. Some may feel like little bumps in the road, some like speedbumps, and some, hopefully very few, will feel like the road has disappeared. The COVID-19 pandemic caused the road to disappear. As a dentist, you live and you learn.

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Dental News and Technology

APRIL 9, 2021

GreenMark Secures FDA Clearance for LumiCare™ Caries Detection Rinse Enhanced Visualization of Dental Caries is the First Commercial Application of Startup Venture's Nanotechnology Platform East Lansing & Ann Arbor, MI, April 8, 2021 – GreenMark Biomedical Inc. announced that the company has secured regulatory clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market its LumiCare™ Caries Detection Rinse as a 510(k) Class II Medical Device.

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Dentistry Gone Digital

APRIL 9, 2021

By Sean Hamel. A Zero click search is a search completed on search engines like Google, Bing, or Yahoo! that do not send you to another website to get results. The “results” or relevant answers and information appear at the top or inline on the Search Engine Results Page (SERP). The abbreviated results are ideal for individuals looking for quick answers to simple, straightforward questions and can be important for dental practices.

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Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

APRIL 9, 2021

Patients who are deaf are more likely to have difficulty securing dental appointments than the general population, according to a study that found dental clinics were six times more likely to deny a new patient request for an interpreter-related reason than primary care clinics. Findings from the joint Idaho State University and Idaho Council for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing study identify an opportunity to train clinical staff to respond appropriately to requests for accommodations.

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Broomfield Dentists / MountainAire

APRIL 9, 2021

We all get hungry throughout the day and reach for a snack to hold us over until the next meal. However, do those snacks have an effect on our teeth? Here are popular snacks that could be hurting your teeth and what snacks could be a better alternative. . Are Snacks Harmful to Your Smile? . As children we begin to learn the connection between what we eat and our overall health.

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Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

APRIL 9, 2021

Scientists at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) are hard at work trying to create a pill that would effectively treat COVID-19 illness, just as Tamiflu does for influenza. The goal is an oral medication that would neutralize SARS-CoV-2 at a low cost and with few side effects. While it may seem like searching for a unicorn, NIH researchers are hopeful, but note the journey toward such a pill is long.

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Coaches Corner

APRIL 9, 2021

Schedule More New Patients With ALASKA! In today’s episode we field a great listener question about the best way to get a new patient off the phone and into the appointment book. The answer? Take them to ALASKA! (It’s an acronym for a system that will help you schedule more new patients! Then, we do some secret shopper calls posing as a new patient who want to pay in cash.

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