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Dental News
Dentsply Sirona reshuffles as pandemic cuts sales in half
CHARLOTTE, N.C., U.S.: The multinational dental company Dentsply Sirona will exit the traditional orthodontics business and reduce its activities in analog ...
Dental sales at Henry Schein drop by over 40%
MELVILLE, N.Y., U.S.: In May, Henry Schein Executive Chairman and CEO Stanley M. Bergman described the SARS-CoV-2 crisis as “one of the most trying ...
Envista says dental markets are recovering
BREA, Calif., U.S.: Dental practices are struggling during the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and so too are the companies that supply them with equipment and ...
How is the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic affecting retirement in dentistry?
LEIPZIG, Germany: When widespread lockdowns began to be implemented in order to curb the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, the number of unemployed people in many ...
Dentists need to prepare now for second wave of COVID-19
LEIPZIG, Germany: Researchers and health bodies around the world are advising health practitioners in the northern hemisphere to actively prepare for an ...
Could the UK have fared better managing COVID-19 outbreak?
LONDON, UK: Though the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, it has been going on long enough for certain lessons to have been gleaned from the way in which ...
Sino-Dental cancels 2020 event
BEIJING, China: The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic continues to pose major challenges for the dental industry, especially regarding events. In light of the ...
Dentistry braces for COVID-19 losses
LEIPZIG, Germany: The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has caused significant disruptions to the provision of dental care around the world. Patient volumes decreased by ...
Interview: “It’s simple: all dentistry should be cosmetic”
Dr Simon Chard has fast become one of the UK’s most influential dentists. He is a proponent of minimally invasive techniques and sits on the board of the ...
Mental health in the dental profession during the COVID-19 pandemic
LEIPZIG, Germany: Even though millions of people suffer from anxiety and depression, according to the World Health Organization, psychiatric disorders often...
Interview: Alarming burden of non-communicable diseases in COVID-19 new normal
According to FDI World Dental Federation, non-communicable diseases (NCDs) are the leading disease burden worldwide. The multifaceted relationships between ...
Cybersecurity and the advancement of digital dentistry
LEIPZIG, Germany: At this point, it almost goes without saying: the future of dentistry is digital. Though modern dental practices still frequently rely on ...
UK dentists need urgent financial support—BDA asks for help
BELFAST, UK: Dentists in Northern Ireland and Scotland are struggling. Several pleas to ministers for financial support for private and mixed dental ...
Chicago Dental Society launches campaign to promote the safety of dental offices
CHICAGO, Ill., USA: The Chicago Dental Society (CDS) has launched a new public awareness campaign called #SAFESMILES to reinforce public confidence in the ...
New research provides insight into COVID-19’s impact on dentistry
CHAMPIONSGATE, Fla., U.S.: In the interest of public health, the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology (IAOMT) has published a new research ...
IDS 2021: Organisers reveal COVID-19 safety measures
COLOGNE, Germany: Trade fairs are all about face-to-face contact. The organisers of the International Dental Show (IDS) are confident that next year’s ...
How COVID-19 has affected online continuing dental education
LEIPZIG, Germany: In recent years, the dental industry’s approach to continuing education (CE) has often been focused on in-person learning opportunities ...
Dental suction systems help to keep staff and patients safe during SARS-CoV-2 crisis
BIETIGHEIM-BISSINGEN, Germany: Owing to the large number of patients seen in dental practices, there is always a danger of coming into contact with an ...
Interview: “We will see AI being increasingly used in the future”
As the deputy head of the department of operative and preventive dentistry at Charité—Universitätsmedizin Berlin in Germany, Prof. Falk Schwendicke has ...
Patients pack bags as dental tourism resumes
LEIPZIG, Germany: No international tourism means no dental tourism, but what does that mean for the patients and dentist who rely on it? When borders began ...
Is PPE the new gold and who is paying for it?
HOLLY RIDGE, N.C., U.S.: Recent comparisons between the value of personal protective equipment (PPE) and the value of gold have raised some interesting ...
Oral cancers may go undetected during COVID-19 crisis
DUBLIN, Ireland: According to the Irish Cancer Society, about 550 people are affected by mouth, head and neck cancers in Ireland each year. As patients are ...
Dental classes of 2020 graduate virtually
NASHVILLE, Tenn., U.S.: The next generation of dentists is entering a profession that suddenly has considerable risk associated with it—a fact already ...
An abnormal crisis
Previous international crises, and the 2008–2013 crisis in particular, have arisen from the collapse of the economic or financial system at the ...
US dentistry teeters toward recovery
NEW YORK, U.S.: Dentists in the U.S. are seeing more patients despite the continued and alarming spread of SARS-CoV-2 within the country. In the same week ...
Interview: Biosecurity in the dental office
As a pioneer and market leader in sterilization, Austria-based company W&H is renowned for developing high-quality sterilization devices for the dental ...
W&H launches #dentalsunited to help dentists get back to work
BÜRMOOS, Austria: A campaign designed to help dental professionals around the world get back to work amid the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has been launched by the ...
SARS-CoV-2 update: Australian and New Zealand dentists proceed with caution
SYDNEY, Australia: As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic continues to rage across the world, the Antipodean nations of Australia and New Zealand have, by and large, ...
#VoiceOfTogether: COVID-19 solidarity fundraising campaign launched successfully
ESCHBORN, Germany: Osstem Meeting Online, a global virtual dental conference series launched in April, will present its grand finale on 27 June, for which ...
Yale and NBA team up to test saliva sampling for SARS-CoV-2
NEW HAVEN, Conn., U.S.: We are learning more about SARS-CoV-2 every day, including more about how to effectively test for it. Researchers at the Yale School...