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Dentalcorp Announces Formation Of New Advisory Council
by dentalcorpdentalcorp, Canada’s leading network of dental clinics, is pleased to announce today its new Advisory Council, comprised of industry-leading dentists and practice leaders from across the country. The council was established to help shape dentalcorp’s overall strategic direction and define network best-practices…
Mark Wahlberg To Speak At ADA FDI 2019
by World Dental CongressThe ADA FDI World Dental Congress is thrilled to announce Oscar-nominated actor and producer Mark Wahlberg as keynote speaker of the ADA FDI 2019 Opening Ceremony and General Session. Wahlberg, a committed philanthropist, founded The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation in…
Cantel To Buy Dental Manufacturer Hu-Friedy
by Medical Product OutsourcingCantel Medical Corp., a provider of instrument reprocessing and infection prevention products and services, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire privately-held Hu-Friedy Mfg. Co., a 111-year-old global manufacturer of instruments and instrument reprocessing workflow…
GC America Inc. Celebrates Grand Opening Of New State-Of-The-Art Facility
by GC AmericaDignitaries and distinguished dental professionals from all over the United States came together on Friday, July 26, 2019 to celebrate the grand opening of GC America’s new home at 3737 127th St. in Alsip, IL. The new building is now…
Henry Schein Awards Fourth Annual Henry Schein Cares Medal In The Dental Category; Names United Cerebral Palsy Association Of The Rochester Area ‘Best in Class’
by Henry ScheinHenry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC) today announced that it has awarded its fourth annual Henry Schein Cares Medal in the Dental category, recognizing three nonprofit organizations and naming Rochester, N.Y.-based United Cerebral Palsy Association of the Rochester Area (CP Rochester) as “Best…
Burlington Dentist Also A Daycare Entrepreneur
by The Hamilton SpectatorThe search for a daycare centre years ago has landed Dr. Walter Heidary of Burlington a nomination as one of Ontario’s entrepreneurs of the year. The Childventures Early Learning Academy he started 10 years ago has now expanded to five…
Cairns Dental Surgery May Have Exposed Patients To HIV And Hepatitis, Authorities Say
by 7 NewsHundreds of patients of a Queensland dental surgery may have been exposed to dangerous bloodborne diseases, including possibly HIV, according to state health authorities. The Essential Dental for Life clinic in Cairns was shut down by health authorities last month…
Missouri Restricts Dentists’ Prescriptions Of Opioids
by KCTV NewsA new Missouri law limits the amount and types of opioid pain medications dentists can prescribe. The bill, signed earlier this month, tells dentists to restrict opioid prescriptions to no more than the equivalent of 10 regular Vicodin pills per…
Vietnamese Refugee Overcomes Troubled Past To Become A Dentist
by VOA NewsSonny Duong went from being a Vietnamese refugee to a career as a dentist in the United States. But his path was not a straight or easy one. Born in Vietnam, Duong came to the U.S. and worked hard as…
UTHealth Launches Dentist-To-Dentist ‘Telementoring’ Program
by UT HealthKuwaiti dentist Alaa Al-Saffar, DDS, may be 7,000 miles from the Texas Medical Center but that did not keep her from catching a lecture on mouth ulcers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth). Al-Saffar and…
Amalgam Recycling Expert To Speak At ADA FDI World Dental Congress
by American Dental AssociationThose with questions about the July 14, 2020, amalgam recycling rule deadline can get answers from a representative from HealthFirst at the at the ADA FDI World Dental Congress in the Practice Institute area. Bryan Foss, product manager for the…
Dentist Had To Use Thousands Of His Own Cash To Treat NHS Patients
by Examiner LiveA dentist who says he was forced to close his practice has revealed he was putting huge amounts of his own cash into subsidising the NHS. Dr Khurrum Hamid has spoken out a week on from shutting the doors to…
Are Mushrooming Private Colleges Creating A Surplus of Dentists?
by News ClickThanks to mushrooming private dental colleges in India, more dental graduates are being created than there is demand for, as the metros, smaller cities and towns are already saturated. As for rural areas, oral healthcare is not an area of…
Guelph’s Giggles’ Dental Clinic Gets Last Laugh In Naming Dispute
by Guelph MercuryA receptionist at the Giggles dental clinic in south Guelph answered the phone Wednesday: “How may I make you smile today?” But the table has turned: the dental profession’s government body put a happy face on staff by announcing it…
UB Center Helps Bring Local Dental Products To Market
by The University at BuffaloStocked on the shelves of Western New York pharmacies is a bottle of dry mouth spray Lubricity, a product developed and manufactured locally by You First Services, Inc. with the support of the University at Buffalo Center for Dental Studies.…
Nashville Endodontist Elected First Female President Of Tennessee Dental Association
by ADADr. Terryl Propper, a Nashville endodontist, likes to quote the first and only female prime minister of India, Indira Ghandi: “There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those that take the credit. There is less…
ADA CareerCenter Unveils Upgraded Online Job Board For Dental Professionals
by ADADental professionals looking for the right job can turn to the ADA CareerCenter, the Association’s official online job board, which unveiled July 17 its upgraded website in an effort to improve user experience and personalization of jobs searches. The online…
Henry Schein Chairman And CEO Stanley Bergman Shares Key Insights At Dykema’s 6th Annual Definitive Conference For Dental Service Organizations
by Henry ScheinStanley M. Bergman, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Henry Schein, Inc. (Nasdaq: HSIC), discussed the intersection between organizational culture and business performance during a panel discussion at Dykema’s 6th Annual Definitive Conference for Dental Service Organizations…
Gap Toothed Trend Has Led To An Increase In Reversed Dental Work
by Yahoo FinanceA gap toothed trend is well underway with celebrities from Georgia May Jagger to recent Love Island stars, Francesca Allen and Arabella Chi, leading the trend. The trend has been dubbed “the London look”, after it was made famous by Ms Jagger…
A First For India – Two South Asian’s Head Two Of The World’s Largest Dental Organizations
by Academy of General DentistryOn November 4, 2018, Dr. Neil J. Gajjar of Canada became the first South Asian and youngest president of the Academy of General Dentistry, the world’s largest dental organization for general dentists with over 40,000 members. Dr. Gajjar, who was…