Industry News

Periodontology Pioneer Dr. Steven Offenbacher Dies at 67

Steven Offenbacher, DDS, PhD, MMSc, a pioneer in researching the relationship between periodontal disease...

Washington State Picks Oral Healthcare Providers for Medicaid Enrollees

The Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) has selected Amerigroup, MCNA, and the Delta Dental...

Does Your Dental Office Have an AED?

Last summer, three second-year dental hygiene students at the Texas A&M University Health Science...

Women with Diabetes Face Greater Oral Cancer Risk

Women with diabetes face a 13% higher risk of developing oral cancer and a...

ADA Supports Oral Health Report Update

The ADA says that it commends the federal agencies that have announced an update...

Parents Underestimate How Much Sugar Is in Their Children’s Food

Parents often underestimate the amount of sugar in the foods that their children eat,...

DMG America Cofounder Herb Wolfe Passes Away

Services will be held for Herb Wolfe, one of the founders of DMG America,...

ADA Foundation Launches Drive for Special Needs Care

This August, the ADA Foundation is asking the dental community to help it raise...

Study to Examine Microflora’s Role in Peri-Implantitis

For more than three years, Hanae Saito, DDS, MS, of the University of Maryland...

Chlorhexidine Improves Glass Ionomer Cement’s Antibacterial Properties

Researchers at Wuhan University in China are developing a chlorhexidine (CHX) delivery system based...