Anesthesia
Nitrous Oxide Analgesia: What Is a Safe Level of Exposure for the Dental Staff?
One of the major challenges of clinical dentistry is the management of pain and...
Management
Managing Cash Flow to Improve Your Bottom Line
Cash flow—how much money is flowing into and out of a dental practice—is an...
Periodontics
Risk Assessment in Periodontal Diagnosis and Treatment Planning: The Fundamental Importance of Probing
Management of adult periodontitis has undergone considerable change in the past decade. As understanding...
Endodontics
Another Look at Root Canal Obturation
Many ingenious techniques have been devised for what should be a simple process of...
Hygiene
ReD Hot Hygiene, Part 4: H Is for Helpful
Help, or helpful, is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as: to contribute, to give assistance...
Management
Lifestyle Modifications and the Management of Hypertension
There is evidence suggesting that hypertension affects nearly 50 million Americans.1 A study reported...
Periodontics
Correction of an Aesthetic Problem Related to Excessive Display of Gingiva
Chiche and Pinault1 describe in their text, Esthetics of Anterior Fixed Prosthodontics, the artistic...
Hygiene
Doctor—Your Hygienist Needs a Digital X-ray System!
So, what do you do with that?” asked the new patient, whom I was...
Implants
A System for Definitive Restoration of Single-Stage Implants in One Day
The classic approach to placing osseointegrated implants in the edentulous mandible requires a period...
Management
Managing Money Flow to Safeguard Your Practice
I first met Dr. Don Lewis, an oral surgeon from Cleveland, Ohio, when he...