It's just shy of a year since the Organized Dentistry Coalition sent a letter to sponsors of the Protect Medical Innovation Act of 2017, H.R. 184 in the House and S. 108 in the Senate, expressing its support for the bill, which would repeal the excise tax on medical device manufacturers and... CONTINUE READING
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” — Martin Luther King Jr. Sixty-three years after Dr. Lucy Hobbs Taylor (shown, below left) became the first woman in the United States to earn a degree in dentistry, another revolutionary arrived on the... CONTINUE READING
Eric John Ricci, DMD, above center, accepts the Benco Dental Seattle Study Club award from Daniel K. Coleman DMD, MS, Providence Dental Study Club Director, and Friendly Benco Dental Rep Craig McMahon. Benco Dental sponsors the Seattle Study Club award program in support of local dentists who... CONTINUE READING
Annually the Incisal Edge “Top 40 Under 40” recognizes innovative and passionate young professionals in dentistry, like Dr. Sam Shin, shown above. If you know a top dentist in the U.S. under the age of 40 who is setting new benchmarks for outstanding dentistry, nominate him or... CONTINUE READING
When Dr. K.B. Park, the founder and CEO of MegaGen Implants, served as a torchbearer in the 2018 PyungChang Winter Olympic Game torch relay in late 2017, it spoke to the longstanding connection between the dental profession and the Olympic... CONTINUE READING
The devastation wrought in Houston by Hurricane Harvey affected every corner of America's fourth-largest city. Its dental community was certainly not spared nature's wrath -- but thanks to tireless work and boundless generosity, Houston's dentists are at last emerging from the waters, defiant and... CONTINUE READING
If it sounds too good to be true, it usually is -- unless facts and first-person evaluations tell a different story. Such is the case with XP Pro Thin™ periodontal line of instruments, recently awarded Best Product with a 4.9 out of 5.0 rating from Dental Product Shopper. Used by both... CONTINUE READING
During oral surgery recovery, every doctor aims to put patients in a state of physical ease and offer freedom from pain or constraint. The sophisticated furnishings of Herman Miller and Nemschoff have been used in stylish, versus sterilizing, healthcare environments for five decades, elevating the... CONTINUE READING
For a 2016 graduate, the average dental school debt totaled $261,149, according to the American Dental Education Association. The burden of debt didn't stand in the way of the profession being ranked at the top spot in the 2017 U.S. News & World Report's annual list ranking the best jobs of... CONTINUE READING
For 5th year, dental lifestyle magazine canvasses country; celebrates offices that unite form, function It’s hard to say when exactly the transformation from drab, depressing, crammed-in, purely functional dental practices of yore became a thing of… well, yore. But it’s unquestionably true... CONTINUE READING