The Oral Health Experience

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The Oral Health Journal has been in the forefront of dental education and technology transfer throughout its 114-year history of continuous publication. It has introduced new concepts, innovative materials, and novel techniques, reviewed and substantiated (or repudiated) existing procedures, and provided an effective national forum for moving the dental profession forward, focusing on both the … Read more

The Rise of Distance Delivery in Dental Education

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Intuitively, we know that priority needs to be placed on recruitment, education, and practical training to meet the growing demand for jobs in the dental industry among Canadians. While it’s clear that expanding the pool of dental professionals will help alleviate the strain, there are notable concerns regarding traditional education programs. Geographic Limitations: Students are … Read more

The Ruddle Show: Endodontic Education, Inspiration and Entertainment

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The internet has made the world smaller, connecting us in ways unimaginable just a decade ago, and this has served to forever change the endodontic educational model. Specifically, online endodontic education takes on a variety of forms, such as online courses, webinars, podcasts, and YouTube videos. Additionally, online education is offered on discussion forums and … Read more

Trends in Dental CE Courses Shed Light on Industry Divide

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Your interests can say a lot about you, especially as a dentist. We’re not talking about what sports you watch or what radio station you listen to on your way home from work; we’re talking about what you study. Some trends in dental continuing education courses are obvious, but some may make you stop and … Read more

Your Top Picks: March 2017

Spring is (sort of) in the air and your top pick are in for March 2017! Our website tries to cover clinical articles, dental news, and helpful videos and blogs to fill in the rest. There’s a lot of new information coming your way every day and we’ve tried to condense it into four key … Read more

CLOG – Digital literacy enables you to learn by and from example!!

This is an endo related post. For those who are upset about my antipathy towards single file endodontics, rest assured, it will not be referenced, nor should you take away any sense that endodontic microsurgery and single file endodontics are mutually inclusive.  It’s a blog folks, take from it what you will.  I want to … Read more

Take five with – fill in the blank

http://www.take5withmarty.com/ Wonderful effort by Dr. Marty Jablow…..imagine if OH or the CDA created such a channel and used it to chat up dentistry across the country….spectacular addendum to the elearning section of Oral Health…..fabulous way to introduce the bright and leading lights of the Canadian Dental Community – now if we only had a sponsor……hmmmmm … Read more

Force the issue! DEMAND knowledge networks!! You are the POWER!!!

Please read this article on the concept of  ONLINE IVY UNIVERSITIES. The next time a company invites you to a product-centric webinar, answer them thusly:  “Critical thinking and comprehensive care are the sine qua non of logical, science based treatment planning. I appreciate the need for your company to meet bottom line expectations for its … Read more

Dental XP – the epitome of sharing and caring

http://www.dentalxp.com/video/flowable-composite-versatility-every-day-1021486.aspx http://www.dentalxp.com/video/flowable-composite-versatility-every-day-1021573.aspx http://www.dentalxp.com/video/principles-clinically-successful-shade-1121202.aspx Ed McLaren is coming to Burlington, Ontario soon – man truly gets sharing and caring – http://www.oralfacialarts.com/index_main.html Downloads and links – check it out………..brilliant! http://www.dentalxp.com/video/trouble-free-highly-esthetic-composite-1161340.aspx This one is from one of the most incredible presenters I’ve ever seen – the sheer artistry of his presentations is mind boggling – http://www.dentalxp.com/video/implant-abutment-design-selection-105946.aspx Our interest is to determine … Read more

Millennium Dental Technologies Signs Renewal Agreement With Seattle Study Club to Continue Strong Collaboration

From Marketwire – CERRITOS, CA, Mar 29, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) — Millennium Dental Technologies and the Institute for Advanced Laser Dentistry (IALD) announce the renewal of their partnership with the Seattle Study Club (SSC) after an extremely productive three years. Millennium Dental Technologies, the developer of the FDA-cleared LANAP(R) protocol for the treatment of … Read more

I want the truth – YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Hopefully, I have your attention. In the new world of dentistry, or as I like to call it, THE HUNGER GAMES, with the technologic onslaught/juggernaut, implant driven treatment planning, CAD/CAM software driven everything from surgical placement to final restorations, and a new material appearing every twelve seconds vibe, with the claims and counter-claims, with the … Read more

Clog – Ridge preservation – animation

Many of you generate YOUTUBE vignettes, have PowerPoint or Keynote presentations to share. You are encouraged to do so…..either send them to me through DropBox or I’ll send you the USER ID and Password to the SlideShare being used for the MOUTHING OFF BLOG.  Content begins with a small stone thrown into a pool, the … Read more

We be cloggin’ and slide sharin’

Tryin’ somethin’ new for the peeps – Slide Share – since we can’t get the folks to send six or eight images and a few lines of texts, perhaps, they’ll Slide Share from the Moody Blues song Steppin’ in a Slide Zone…play it last or as it lays. Here’s some fun stuff from me amigo in … Read more

Adobe Labs Downloads

Adobe Photoshop CS6 Beta – If you want to experiment with Photoshop for free – this is it!! The world’s best digital image editing software is about to get even better. Explore Adobe® Photoshop® CS6 beta for a sneak preview of some of the incredible performance enhancements, imaging magic, and creativity tools we are working … Read more

‘Shock Trauma’ to Help Train University of Maryland Dental Students Residents – thass right, they Taser them…

Newswise — The University of Maryland’s School of Dentistry has teamed up with the University of Maryland R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center for training future dentists to respond efficiently and effectively to life-threatening medical emergencies in a dental setting. Medical training is a growing trend in dental education in the United States since the early … Read more