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Your Top Picks: March 2017
by Oral HealthSpring is (sort of) in the air and your top pick are in for March 2017! Our website tries to cover clinical articles, dental news, and helpful videos and blogs to fill in the rest. There’s a lot of new…
At the Root: Best Advice From Some the Oral Health Editorial Advisory Board
by Oral Health Editorial Advisory BoardJordan Soll If you look up the word experience in the dictionary it says “see Mistakes.” Janice Goodman My dad gave me the best advice I’ve ever received the day I graduated in Dentistry. The most valuable asset…
Pre-orthodontic Intervention for Pediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing: A (R)evolutionary Solution to a Modern Problem
by Kevin Boyd; Marianna EvansMalocclusion (HM) is a rising public health epidemic that is seen mainly within industrialized/industrializing cultures. To date, there is no published evidence that malocclusion had ever been a significantly observed human trait prior to the Industrial Revolution in Europe and…
Airway Centric® Dentistry: Past, Present and Future – A Paradigm Shift
by Howard Hindin, DDS, Michael Gelb, DDSThere is an Airway Centric paradigm shift in dentistry. We are excited that this edition of Oral Health is being devoted to Airway Health and Airway in Dentistry. The term AirwayCentric® was created to give healthcare practitioners and consumers and…
Growth Guidance
by Douglas MusseauAs parents, we absolutely want what is best for our children in every way. Many parents are well aware of the specific milestones that our children should reach during the first 18-months of life, however, there are several important growth…
Three Weeks, Days and Minutes; Airway Trumps Everything
by Mark T. Murphy, DDS, FAGDTen years ago, I took a weeklong survival class in the SE Utah high desert with my son. No food, water, tent, sleeping bag or phone, just you, your clothes, a knife and a compass. There were two guides and…
Physiological Dentistry and Heart Rate Variability
by Howard Hindin, DDSThe future of dentistry involves evaluation of the patient providing collaborative optimal care alongside other healthcare practitioners. The increased interest and involvement with sleep, pain and airway requires the dentist to view their patient with new and expanded vision and…
Airway Centered Dentistry: (The A, B, C’s of Treatment for Chronic Face Pain/OSA and Closing Anterior Openbite Without Ortho)
by Steven Olmos, DDS, DABCP, DABCDSM, DABDSM, DAAPM, FAAOP, FAACP, FICCMO, FADI, FIAOBullet points: 1. Definition-orthopedic/functional breathing 2. Comorbidity of orthopedic and facial pain and breathing 3. Answers to our questions 4. Method or technique-paradigm shift 5. Integrating myofunctional techniques This article defines “Airway Centered Dentistry”, explains the mechanism of chronic face/jaw…
The Next Step in Sleep Dentistry: Is There Anything We Can Do for the Ones Who Don’t Have Apnea?
by Stasha Gominak, MDDentists have become involved in the treatment of sleep apnea for several reasons. An oral appliance is usually less uncomfortable than sleeping with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) mask, so dentists offer a welcome alternative for CPAP intolerant patients.…
Airway Orthodontics: An Argument for Early Orthodontic Treatment
by Dr. Barry RaphaelThis article is not about the “how” of airway orthodontics. It’s about the “why”. But it does suggest that a regard for the rationale of airway orthodontics will spur a change in the way we do things in orthodontics altogether.…
Mouth Breathing: Physical, Mental and Emotional Consequences
by P. McKeown; M. MacalusoBreathing is one of the most vital functions of the human body. Every breath we take can have a positive or negative impact on our bodies depending on how it is performed; and it has been well established that normal…
Editorial: Don’t Get Left Behind
by Janice GoodmanThe FDIC has a new definition of the term “oral health”; it “includes the ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew, swallow and convey a range of emotions through facial expressions with confidence and without pain, discomfort and disease…
Book Review: GASP! Airway Health – The Hidden Path to Wellness
by Janice GoodmanThe Book GASP Is A Game Changer I was in dire need of a tool to help me explain to patients that some dental symptoms can be tracked back to an underlying airway issue and that there were solutions to…
People Buy From People They Trust
by Oral HealthAre you using referrals as one of your most successful practice building strategies? One of your patients has just said great things about you, your office and your team. This is an excellent opportunity to take advantage of one of the…
Addressing Changing Patient Preferences & Expectations
by Kahaliah RichardsFor more information, please visit: www.ekwa.com.
Antibiotic Use in Dentistry Is Growing!
by Kahaliah RichardsA new study in the Journal of the American Dental Association shows that dentistry’s share of antibiotic use in healthcare has grown significantly. In 1996, dentistry accounted for 6.7% of antibiotic use. By 2013, its share was 11.3%. This results…
Will You Help Us?
by Kahaliah RichardsAfter 30 years in the Dental Community, as a Dental Speaker lecturing in North America and internationally, I retired in 2015. Following my wonderful career, I wanted to give back and volunteer with women. Good Shepherd offered me the opportunity to donate my…
Mid-level dental providers — affordable, accessible dental care for an aging, high risk community
by Kahaliah RichardsDental hygienists and therapists have been empowered by legislators in Canada, the UK and increasingly in the US to deliver dental services outside of the dental practice. There has been a boom in independent hygiene and this will only grow…
Beware of Throat Lozenges
by Kahaliah RichardsSo here’s the thing… A patient in his 50s, on 2 antidepressants and another med for CV disease, breathing through his mouth at night because of a mouth appliance and experiencing recurrent decay. Even with Prevora’s protection. What else might…
The Patient Magic Ratio.. Part One
by Kahaliah RichardsThe key to improving patient satisfaction…… People are porous. They tend to absorb and reflect the atmosphere and motions around them. According to Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman, we experience approximately 20,000 individual moments in a waking day. Each moment…