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Dental News
Digital tickets for IDS 2021 now available
COLOGNE, Germany: As the 39th International Dental Show (IDS) is rapidly approaching, the organisers have announced that registration is now open. Different...
Part 2: Sustainable dentistry in 500 words or more
SINGAPORE: Why should dental professionals strive towards sustainable dentistry? Firstly, it is the right thing to do ethically; secondly, it is a great ...
Slow down everyone—dentistry does not need to be done at speed—Part 1
Dentistry in many parts of the world is being taken over by financially driven practices, and there seems to be a growing number of clinics that are focused...
Maternal postnatal depression influences children’s toothbrushing—study
SENDAI, Japan: Researchers at Tohoku University in Japan have found that maternal mental health may play a significant role in instilling early ...
COVID-19 and the dental market: The pandemic continues to bite
LEIPZIG, Germany: Sales at major dental companies climbed in the second quarter of this year compared with the same period in 2020, during which the ...
BDA blasts potential migrant dental checks as “unethical”
LONDON, UK: In 2016, the Member of Parliament for Monmouth, David Davies, courted controversy when he suggested that dental checks could be used to verify ...
Literature favours air purifiers as COVID-19 transmission risk mitigant
LEIPZIG, Germany: The pandemic has been a trying time for dentists, particularly for owner-dentists who must make decisions that may influence the safety of...
Evidence suggests triad of symptoms most common in COVID-19 patients
BRASILIA, Brazil: From the start of the pandemic, the oral cavity has been highlighted as a potentially relevant infection axis with further inflammatory ...
Women in dentistry: Meet chemist and awarded dental materials inventor Dr. Sumita Mitra
As the second candidate for a series portraying outstanding women in dentistry, Dental Tribune International (DTI) interviewed Dr. Sumita Mitra. During her ...
3D printing: Current applications and perspectives
MILAN, Italy: Digital technologies are rapidly spreading in dentistry. Tools such as intra-oral and laboratory scanners, CBCT, computer-aided design and ...
Select sessions of WDC to be featured on FDI Oral Health Campus
SYDNEY, Australia: From 26 to 29 September, the Australian Dental Association and FDI World Dental Federation will present a special edition of the World ...
How dental providers can take action to benefit from data dentistry
BERLIN, Germany: In our modern society, data has become a key resource that allows for the storage and analysis of important information which then ...
Lane keeping assistance systems in endodontics
A fully automatic navigation assistant for root canal therapy? What may initially sound like robo-doc treatment or treatment by remote control will take ...
BioMin F in Smile Revolution podcast
I recently recorded a podcast with Prof. Robert Hill and Richard Whatley (CEO at BioMin Technologies) on BioMin F toothpaste—an in-depth conversation on a...
IDSconnect: The new digital event platform of IDS
COLOGNE, Germany: In 2021, IDS is going hybrid, which means that more participants than ever before will attend the largest trade show in the dental ...
Gunman killed by police after injuring three workers at SmileDirectClub plant
NASHVILLE, Tenn., U.S.: A shooting at SmileDirectClub’s Nashville manufacturing facility was carried out by an active employee and resulted in three ...
Investigation reveals racial discrimination rife in Swedish dental practices
STOCKHOLM, Sweden: An explosive new report by the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter has revealed the widespread existence of ethnic discrimination at both ...
ADA not backing compulsory COVID-19 jabs
CHICAGO, U.S.: The American Dental Association (ADA) says that dentists should be vaccinated against COVID-19 but has stopped short of backing compulsory ...
Septodont names new dental division president
PARIS, France: Septodont, a world leader in dental anaesthesia, has announced that Karim Khadr joined the company as president of its dental division on ...
Registration for EuroPerio10 and virtual EuroPerio Series now open
COPENHAGEN, Denmark: Following the virtual EuroPerio Series kick-off event earlier this summer, the event organisers have now announced that registration is...
CQC mandates registration for direct-to-consumer orthodontics providers
LONDON, UK: As the independent regulator of health and social care in England, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has recognised the benefits that new ...
Celebrities’ Smile Makeup—the MiCD way
In today’s beauty-adoring society, most people have the desire to look and feel their best, since facial and physical appearance have a crucial role to ...
First digital edition of AOSC exceeds expectations
SINGAPORE: The Association of Orthodontists (Singapore) Congress (AOSC), held from 2 to 11 July, successfully concluded its first online edition. The ...
Around 830 exhibitors from 56 countries to attend IDS 2021
COLOGNE, Germany: The International Dental Show (IDS) will be opening its doors for the 39th time from 22 to 25 September. Owing to the ongoing global ...
Understanding how bruxism affects dental restorations
MALMÖ, Sweden: Research has shown that bruxism not only causes damage to teeth but may also result in implant failure. To further investigate the issue, ...
Functional aesthetic speech therapy: Synergy between dentistry and aesthetic medicine?
Aesthetic medicine is increasingly taking on a global connotation of harmony and balance, defined certainly by historically evolved and shared canons, but ...
Interview: “This could be the beginning of a new way we do local dentistry”
Fiona Perry, from Perthshire in Scotland, started her journey in dentistry as a dental nurse in the early 1980s, and a couple of years later, she qualified ...
Thinking of joining a DSO? Owning practice building can complicate sale
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., U.S.: For dentists who own the property on which their dental practice is located, the property is typically their second-most ...
GC America to present live, biofilm-focused seminar
ALSIP, Ill., U.S.: In celebration of GC’s 100th anniversary, GC America will host a one-day virtual symposium on combating biofilm and oral disease on ...
Third molar extraction may have positive effect on sense of taste
PHILADELPHIA, U.S.: Taste disorders and other neurosensory defects have been reported postoperatively in a number of patients who have undergone extraction ...