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Oral Piercings

Many dental offices are seeing patients (particularly young people) with pierced tongues, lips, or...

Oral Complications In Radiation Therapy

More than 30,000 new cases of oral or pharyngeal cancer were diagnosed in 2001....

Periodontal Disease and Cardiovascular Diseases

A study by Janket, et al, originally published in Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral...

Access to Success, Part 3: Super-Efficient Anterior Root Canals

The first 2 articles in this series, Access to Success, focused on the access...

Microendodontic Ultrasonic Instruments

With the advent of the surgical operating microscope in endodontics in the 1990s came...

How Home Care is Essential to Ensuring Successful Orthodontic Treatment Outcomes

t is important for the orthodontic practice to promote good oral home care by...

The Role of the Infection Control Coordinator

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the lead federal agency for...

Do Traditional Sealants Have a Place in the New, Super-Magnified World?

Traditional dental sealants, which have ostensibly become restorative dentistry’s most promoted preventive procedure, have...

The Eleven Essentials of Effective Staff Meetings, Part 2: Getting it Together in the Name of Customer Service

his article is part 2 of a 3-part series that describes the Essentials of...

How Bad Ads Can Undermine Good Practices: Get Your Message in Print Properly and New Patients Will Follow

“No Pain, No Gain!” the headline bellows. If the clichéd message in this ad...