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Infection control in dentistry is in the news again. As many media outlets reported recently, an 82-year-old woman in Italy died ...

Risk factors are the primary determinants of the course periodontal disease takes by the variety of mechanisms ...

Welcome back! This month’s tip addresses frequent comments concerning the difficulty of gripping many of the micro implant accessories ...

I am often on the same speaking programs as one of my best friends in dentistry, Dr. Howard Farran.

Today I’m talking with Dr. Robert Margeas. He is one of the best restorative dentists I know. I want to pick his brain with a number of questions ...

If you’ve heard me speak at a meeting, you know that for about 10 years I’ve started my seminar with a sampling of phone calls ...

 I have two questions. I understand that a significant amount of dental laboratory work comes into the U.S. from offshore, particularly China ...

Our country has often been called the “melting pot” — a place where people come from all over the world to live and thrive.

In 2013, the health care reform act will subject some high-income doctors to an additional 3.8% Medicare contribution tax ...

When a dentist buys a practice and things don’t work out as well as hoped, the person usually concludes that he or she paid too much ...

“I am 65 years old and my lease expires in one year. I cannot afford to retire for the next several years. What can I do?”

Would you like your practice to be more successful? Are you making the income you deserve in dentistry? How’s your stress level?

I am a general dentist in New Jersey, and I as well as several dentists I know are regular readers of DE. I’d like to highlight ...

Continuing education played a big part in my month of March, and it ended with a bang in Atlanta at the 100th Hinman Dental Meeting.

I have been wearing SurgiTel loupes for magnification for a number of years. This company is dedicated to improving the ergonomics ...

This product evolved because a dentist saw a need for a simple way to take an intraoral image ...

They say that college is wasted on the young. Most who enroll in college never really take advantage of the wealth of resources available ...

Use of the electronic dental record (EDR) is nothing new in my suburban practice. We’ve seen a dramatic but systematic evolution ...

During the course of dental practice, dentists encounter patients with teeth affected by caries or periodontal disease ...

Nickel-titanium (NiTi) rotary root canal instruments have undergone major changes since they first appeared in the early 1990s.

Many general dentists take a corporate-sponsored dental implant course, place one implant, and then stop doing dental implants.

We hear about it a lot these days – dental practices getting squeezed by lower consumer spending. The result is less treatment ...

These are extremely busy days for Dr. Roger P. Levin. As chairman and CEO of Levin Group, he heads the largest dental consulting company ...

It’s a safe bet that you rely on compressed air, yet the compressor is usually thought of only when purchased ...

CAD/CAM discussions in dentistry have focused on crowns, bridges, and implant restorations. We don’t hear much about partial ...

The return on your investment in social media can be huge, not just in terms of online engagement, but also in the value ...

There are currently 845 million people actively using Facebook. Ranking with Google as one of the most visited sites in the country ...

With the advent of small-footprint, low-dose, and reasonably priced cone beam computed tomography (CBCT), the limitations of 2-D radiographs ...

Murphy’s Law, which states, “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong,” gained prominence in 1949 at Edwards Air Force Base ...