Dentists

Rupert Murdoch is using Fox News to deflect animus to dentists

From PRNewsWire If you’re being demonized, demonize someone else…..it’s historical. CHARLOTTE, N.C., July 25,2011 /PRNewswire/ — A leading international scientist in the field of infection control is urging patients to ask their dentists about the potential for cross-contamination in the dental office, specifically from reused chains and holders that fasten patients’ protective bibs in place. http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/question-your-dentist-about-potential-for-cross-contamination-leading-infection-control-scientist-tells-fox-news-126112098.html Related … Read more

Tylenol 3 is such an ‘ugly’ drug

From Science Daily – July1, 2011 In the cover article of this month’s Journal of the American Dental Association, a group of nine dentists, pharmacists, and addiction experts provides new research and recommendations to help dentists combat, rather than contribute to, abuse of addictive painkillers. Read more Related articles Research examines dentists’ role in painkiller abuse (medicalxpress.com) … Read more

An APP for billing codes, I’m farklempt – talk amongst yourselves

From Dentistry IQ – June 29, 2011 CHICAGO, Illinois–The American Dental Association is helping to make it easier and faster for dentists to find dental billing codes by introducing the new CDT Code Check app for the iOS (iPhone, iPad) and Android-powered mobile devices (phones and tablets). The CDT Code Check, which contains every code … Read more

Do the math!

From CNBC.com – by Margo D. Beller – June 10, 2011 One had an idea: create a website allowing uninsured consumers to compare prices and reputations of dentists across the U.S. before stepping foot in the office. One looked at the numbers: a $45 billion market and a large population paying for their own dental … Read more

More dental schools means more dentists – who’s doing the math?

I am completely unaware of the workings of our licensing bodies in Canada, privy only to the mutterings around the table at a study club or society meeting. Mostly, I’m advised about the number of new endodontists coming to Ontario, or the number of dentists trained abroad who are being given “carte blanche” entrance into … Read more

The winds of change

From dentistry.co.uk – trends are global – by Guy Hiscott A new survey suggests that patient loyalty may be on the wane – and that patients who are dissatisfied with their care might vote with their feet without dentists knowing. Dental corporate Oasis, which commissioned the survey, has warned that the results indicate a changing … Read more

The vision of net32.com

A website worth investigating in depth……….. In 1996 a dentist Dr. Pat Cassidy, and his wife Donna, came up with the idea of saving businesses money based on their own experience in the dental industry. They found retail pricing was extremely high, and that much better pricing was available if they took the time to … Read more

From the ADA News – The times they are achangin’

January 17, 2011 Letters to the Editor Oral physicians By Donald B. Giddon, D.M.D., Ph.D. and Brian J. Swann,D.D.S.,M.P.H. Dentists should take their heads out of the sand and recognize the inevitable. The public will ultimately succeed in obtaining more accessible and less costly dental care, and it will not be too long before they … Read more

Now this is dental trauma REDUX, Dr. B. Made Off, DDS

As a followup to Catherine’s post………in the era of Bernie Q. Made Off, how could anyone remain this gullible……..by the by, I have some swamp land in FLA for sale…..and one of the perpetrators was a periodontist, nudge, nudge, wink, wink, say no more…all kidding aside, look up the Latin term, Nullius in Verba and … Read more

Topix – Dental Forum – when anonymity and psychosis meld

Topix community is a website for towns and cities across N. America – the postings below came from the dental forum…..isn’t it time for an op-ed dental section on www.canoe.ca DENTISTS CRIMINALs! MUST BE EXPOSED! posted January 6th, 2011 DO click on the link above, scads of GTA dentists and beyond advertise on this site….. … Read more

It’s the singer, not the song

NEW YORK, Jan. 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — A new nationwide study by Verasoni Ah Ha! (The Research arm of Verasoni Worldwide), of how dentists use Facebook to promote their practice reveals that dentists are at a loss on Facebook. Data from the study reveal that dentists do not yet understand how to leverage social media channels such … Read more

HPA Publishes Guidance On Using Dental Scanners – Rule Britannia

From Dental Forum – Medical News Today RADIATION protection guidance for dentists using certain new types of scanners, is published by the Health Protection Agency.  In the past few years specialist dental surgeries all over the UK have been introducing Cone Beam Computed Tomography (CBCT) technology to aid treatment. The scanners are similar to those … Read more

Bogus ‘dentists’ prey on immigrants

In basements and backrooms across the province, with outdated and unsterilized tools, a cottage industry of illegal and sometimes dangerous dentistry is thriving among immigrant communities, a Toronto Star investigation has found. Offering cut-rate prices for inferior dental care, these bogus dentists attract patients, overwhelmingly new immigrants, who share the same culture. Vulnerable, ill-informed and … Read more

So you wanna be a rock n’roll star……….

“When I’ll grow up, I’m going to be a doctor.” Can you remember hearing that from youngsters (or maybe even yourself when you were a tender age)? Children have it clear in their minds that occupying this noble profession is prestigious and heroic: they get to save lives (just like their favorite superheroes). But seldom … Read more