As Canadians generally enjoy longer, healthier lives, it is essential to acquire and retain the satisfaction and loyalty of older patients by understanding and addressing their unique and evolving needs.
This month we are showcasing Krystal Afzalzada, B.Ed, RDH, CDAII Educator, advocate for aging populations, and public speaker. With two decades in the dental industry, Krystal empowers professionals with evidence-based tools to improve patient outcomes and elevate standards of care.
As dental hygienists, once a patient walks through your door and settles into your chair, something powerful begins to unfold. The During Experience is where trust is built—or quietly broken.
The people closest to an asset often see only its friction, while those willing to step back can see its value more clearly. This pattern shows up everywhere, including dentistry.
U.S. tariffs affect Canadian dental practices in several ways, most notably through higher costs and supplier disruptions. In an Oral Health survey, 21% of respondents reported that tariffs have significantly increased costs and created sourcing challenges.
This review summarizes current evidence and future implications on AI-assisted drug monitoring and dosing, AI-based behavioural support and decision-support tools highlighting the impact in dentistry.
As the old saying goes, “one man’s meat is another man’s poison.” A medication may be highly effective in one individual, ineffective in another, and potentially harmful in a third. Drug handling by the body varies significantly between individuals, and genetic makeup is one of the major factors contributing to this variability. Pharmacogenomics, a branch … Read more
This paper will describe the causes of oral pain in the palliative patient and the important role of the palliative care dentist in the treatment of oral pain to reduce suffering in the patient’s final days.
Canada’s population is rapidly aging, accompanied by a shifting landscape in oral healthcare needs. In 2021, individuals aged 65 and older accounted for 18.5% of the national population, and this figure is projected to increase sharply by 2068.1 This demographic trend presents both challenges and opportunities for the Canadian healthcare system, particularly in the field of … Read more
As the global population ages, dental professionals increasingly encounter patients with cognitive impairments that compromise their ability to provide informed consent. This article reviews the ethical frameworks and regulatory standards that guide informed consent in dentistry.
This essay will present important considerations for dealing with the senior patient, and the ways in which dental offices can be adapted to make them more welcoming, accessible, and responsive to the needs of this steadily increasing patient population.
The past two years have ushered in a quiet but consequential evolution in geriatric dentistry or gerodontology, one driven by demographic urgency and sharpened by cross-continental scholarship.
Geriatric dentistry, also referred to as gerodontics, gerontology, or gerodontology, focuses on providing dental care to older adults, including the diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of various dental issues.
As populations around the world age at an unprecedented rate, it is the responsibility of the dental profession to recognize the importance of geriatric dentistry.
As health care marketing and communications professionals, the “end goal” with this exercise of assessing your “access” (and more) is to identify those distinctive qualities that make your location stand out favourably.
Just like there are leaders and followers, there are joiners and non-joiners. This is quite true in our profession when it comes to organized dentistry.
The journey of Dr. Sara Razmavar and her husband, Amirali Kavousian, began in 2017 when they acquired Highland Creek Dental.
Zero-click searches let patients get answers without visiting your website. Learn how AI is changing dental marketing and what practices must do to stay visible in 2026.
Despite growing interest, many dentists remain cautious. When asked whether they had implemented AI-assisted technologies for clinical diagnostics in the past five years, 60% of Canadian dentists said they had not.
As dentistry continues to move toward data-driven decision-making, tools that close the diagnostic gap in hygiene are becoming essential to sustainable practice growth.