Dental Articles
59 clinical articles written by leading dental experts
Ergonomics
Get Ahead of the Misery: Injury Prevention Strategies from a Dental Hygienist Body-Builder
Julius Caesar said, “It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience.” If you do not want to ...
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Infection Control
Managing Cognitive Biases that Compromise Infection Prevention and Control
What are your personal cognitive biases? More importantly, how are these biases manifesting in your dental practice? If you’re like many practitioners, your cog...
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Medical Emergencies
Local Anesthetic Urgencies and Emergencies
How many times a week, month or year do you inject local anesthetics? How often do you think about the potential risks that these anesthetics pose? If a patient...
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Preventative Therapy
The Most Minimally Invasive Way to Treat Decay
Did you know that combining silver diamine fluoride with the application of glass ionomer can be a long-term solution for restoring a badly decayed tooth? Altho...
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Practice Management
Advice for New Dentists Who Want to Succeed
You finally finished dental school and, perhaps, a residency. Your head is crammed with knowledge and you’re excited to launch your career. Woo hoo! What advice...
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Direct Restoratives
Those Pesky White Spots: Now You See Them, Now You Don’t
We’ve all seen the white spot lesions on our patient’s teeth. By any measure they’re not particularly aesthetic, and most patients would love for them to disapp...
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Public Health
The Rewards & Challenges of Working at a Community Health Center
There are over 1,400 community health centers in the U.S., and these centers serve 31.5 million patients a year at more than 15,000 service sites. What is it li...
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Adhesives/Cements
Unlocking Adhesive Excellence in Zirconia Bonding
It seems that zirconia is all the rage these days. But many dentists wonder if you can really bond it to the underlying tooth structure. Can you go with a minim...
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Special Care
Making Dental Care Accessible for Patients with Special Needs
General dentists are the first line of defense for the adult population with intellectual and developmental disabilities. As one dentist discovered, successfull...
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Direct Restoratives
Anterior Direct Composite Restorations: The Ultimate Additive Solution
If you’re a dentist who is artistic, enjoys creating beautiful anterior restorations and truly cares about conserving tooth structure, then you will probably fi...
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Direct Restoratives
Overcoming Sensitivity with Direct Restoratives
You work so hard to make a beautiful restoration. The patient is thrilled when they leave your office – but they’re still numb. Then they go home, the numbness ...
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Direct Restoratives
The Case for Single Shade Composites
What’s a great way to decrease your chair time and lower your overhead while still producing great aesthetic results? Switch to single shade dentistry!
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