Clinical Update
Insurance and Preventive Dentistry
Some medical insurance companies are expanding their coverage to include various preventive dental procedures...
Cover Story
Nonsurgical Versus Surgical Endodontic Retreatment: “How Do I Choose?”
The purpose of endodontics is to prevent or cure lesions of endodontic origin. Endodontic...
articles
Overview of New ADA CDT 2007-2008 Codes
The ADA coding system undergoes updating and revision periodically. Up until 2000, updates were...
Periodontics
An Expedited Procedure for Augmenting the Alveolar Ridge
Loss of height and/or width of the alveolar ridge may result from a number...
Cover Story
Patient-Centered Treatment Planning: Part 1
As part of our formal training to become dentists we are taught to diagnose,...
Hygiene
Recruit, Reward, and Retain: How to Build Hygiene Loyalty to You and Your Practice
Whether you are looking for your first hygienist to take over the prophies you...
CE Articles
Management of the Dental Patient on Anticoagulant Medication
Dental patients taking anticoagulant medication pose a challenge for the clinician. Dentists are often...
Clinical Update
Oral Postsurgical Complication in Patient Taking Bisphosphonates
The patient of a periodontist in private practice in New Orleans developed...
Lasers
Do All Dentists Use Lasers?
“Do all dentists use lasers?” This is a question I hear daily from patients....
Cover Story
Treating Dental Patients With Eating Disorders
Millions of people in this country, more than 90% of them young women, suffer...