Wellness – Prescribing Exercise to Treat Depression

Thanks to Paul Martin and Jean Chretien, Canadians are not experiencing the disaster many are experiencing south of the border down Washington way.  And yet, medical histories are showing an abundance of SSRI usage, financial problems plague treatment planning, jobs are in peril or lost and we are dealing with people in psychic pain more … Read more

Where is Mitzi Gaynor when you need her?

The fact is that 80% of Canadian dentists won’t get the upshot of the title of this blog entry…… South Pacific, washing, hair, Mitzi Gaynor – never mind. September 1, 2011, 1:16 PM Getting Doctors to Wash Their Hands By ANAHAD O’CONNOR A new study has a message for doctors and nurses who fail to wash their … Read more

Bicon Dental Implants

LOVE the website – CHECK OUT THE CASES LINK http://www.bicon.com/index.htm Related articles Montreal Dentist discusses the choices in dental implants (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Healing times for dental implants could be cut (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Endo Perio Implant Algorithm Redux (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com)

Woh, oh-oh, woh-oh, woh-oh, woh-oh-woh Montego Bay

You thirst to be thirsty in Montego Bay……. SCOTTSDALE, AZ,USA: The American Academy of Implant Prosthodontics (AAIP) will hold its 29th annual meeting on Nov. 6 in Montego Bay, Jamaica, in association with Midwestern University College of Dental Medicine and the Jamaica School of Oral Health Science. The theme of the meeting will be “Back … Read more

Only in the UK you say – pity!!

From Dental Health Hub Imaging A Recent Call for New Ideas for Health Apps Just Started in UK Andrew Lansley, Health Secretary of the UK,recently initiated a call for the design of new innovative health apps that could help patients make better decisions about their oral health and dental care. Ideas are welcomed from patients,doctors, dentists, and … Read more

Powering prosthetics with thoughts alone

Before the end of this decade, stem cell research will enable regeneration of tooth structure/teeth. While in the context of our field the implications are extraordinary, consider what our confreres in other health disciplines are doing….it’s mind boggling.  STORY HIGHLIGHTS Modern prosthetic devices offer hope of a more active life for amputees Thought-controlled prosthetic arm … Read more

I think I can, I think I can

NEXUS – NOT LEXUS – NEXUS – there are links to dental blogs all over the NET – start with www.dentalblogs.com and go from there. OR – YOU COULD SEND YOUR BLOGS TO ME AND I COULD START A LIST THAT WOULD BE UPDATED MONTHLY.  Something to ponder upon. By way of example – here’s … Read more

Caveat emptor

The longer I practice, the more consumed I am with evidence versus eminence based science. Accelerator pedals lock, rubber flies off tires, SUV‘s are prone to rollover and endodontic files will break no matter who says no. From the ROOTS forum. The Patient was referred today. The RD came with the patient in my office … Read more

AZ Endodontist on Painless Dental Injections With “Onset”

Anesthetic buffering with Onset by Onpharma.com Related articles Endo Perio Implant Algorithm Redux (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) I Don’t Think So!!!!!!!!!! (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Innovative dental injection system could ameliorate patient discomfort (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) There are times you simply can’t afford to be wrong….. (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Huh, oh, WOW!!! (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Noah! Build me an ark…..the flood has begun (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com)

15th Biennial Congress of the European Society of Endodontology

OPEN INVITATION TO CANADIAN CE PROVIDERS AND PURVEYORS – share your venue, but not in the traditional way, share VIGNETTES from the presenters…….let’s effect change.. Related articles Are we doing enough? (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Compendium Of Continuing Education In Dentistry (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com)

Sjogren’s syndrome

With the news that Venus Williams‘ tennis career may be ending because of Sjogren’s syndrome, I thought it purposeful to review the condition in light of the fact, that many patients may now wonder if they have it as well. Sadly, there is the inevitable mass “hysteria”, and I use the term very loosely with … Read more

Things that go bump in the oral mucosa

In my 137 years of experience, nothing ever happens based on the mathematical chaos theory, of course this may be a Bayesian fallacy of interpretation, however, I find patient problems present in streaks, not schmeers…… This week was oral pathology. Now I remember many things, but am far from being a savant, but, there is … Read more

Whoa – oh – whoa – listen to the music

Bit of humour for September first – Aside from what you learn on YOU TUBE – the music is amazing!!!  Like something out of Mission Impossible………now there’s a thought, Mission Impossible V – Tom Cruise plays a super agent dentist…….  

Compendium Of Continuing Education In Dentistry

One of my favorite CE journals is Compendium from www.dentalaegis.com Check out this case from John Weston, DDS. http://www.dentalaegis.com/cced/2011/09/conservative-full-mouth-reconstruction-of-a-worn-dentition-utilizing-digital-impression-technology-and-moden-ceramic-materials which linked off the AACD blog at http://aacd.posterous.com/conservative-full-mouth-reconstruction-of-a-w Ah, the smell of napalm and social media/networking in the a.m. Related articles Neuromuscular Dentistry (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) Leaders in Dentistry: A conversation with Dr. David T.W. Wong (blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com) More than a … Read more

Guidelines on CBCT for Dental and Maxillofacial Radiology – European

From o’er the pond – a worthwhile read One of the primary aims of the SEDENTEXCT project was to develop evidence-based guidelines on use of CBCT in dentistry, including referral criteria, quality assurance guidelines and optimisation strategies. In 2009,we produced a “Provisional Guidelines” document as an interim step. In the past two years,that publication has … Read more

Mentoring by the numbers – Treat me Seymour

Still looking for the magic hook to get the six of you reading this blog to post commentary….. New tack being taken, next effort will involve a nail gun. What would you do with this situation……….? Related articles Your olde road is rapidly agin’, please get outta the new one if you can’t lend a … Read more

Roberto is hot, hot, hot today!

More from the Netherlands Another one with a “preserving dentine” pattern.   Came yesterday in pain, percussion, palpation, treatment done 2 years ago. According to the patient was a vital case. It’s not his own dentist who performed the endodontic treatment,so I cannot confirm this.   It was the actual the MB canal missed,and they … Read more