Clinical Update
Children’s Tooth Decay
Tooth decay is the most common chronic disease affecting American children, 5 times more...
Practice Management
Ten Ways to Improve Your Practice: Time-Tested Principles-Based on an Interview With Dick Barnes, DDS
The “Barnes Principles for Creating a Successful Cosmetic Dental Practice,” as they are known,...
articles
Understanding Dental Fear
From the days of Wells and Morton, the profession of dentistry has been at...
Periodontics
The Standard of Care for Nonsurgical Periodontal Treatment for Reducing the Dental Risk for Cardiac Disease
It has been estimated that as many as 60 million consumers in the United...
articles
Physician Referrals and the New Dental Medicine
The winds of change are blowing across the face of medicine and dentistry. They...
Clinical Update
Evaluating Health Through Your Saliva
Healthy people generally produce up to 2 pints of saliva a day, used for...
Hygiene
New Age Periodontics: What’s Coming Down the Pike
A whole new light is emerging as we continue to learn more about periodontitis,...
Occlusion
Dental Compression Syndrome and TMD: Examining the Relationship
Temporomandibular disorder (TMD) is not just one disorder, but a group of conditions that...
Cover Story
A Breakthrough for Better Health: The Medical-Dental Connection
Many people experience painful and bloody cleanings when visiting their dental office. When they...
Computers
Digital X-Ray File Sharing Redefines the “Solo” Practitioner
Historically, the great majority of dentists have been “solo” practitioners with limited access to...