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Dear Readers, This month, Inside Dentistry joins the discussion about the pressing issues facing Washington. Healthcare reform remains a key focus for our nation’s leaders, and aspects of oral health—whether coverage, education, access, or research funding— are part of proposed legislation. Expanding Coverage Without question, oral health is the need and right of everyone. As our lawmakers in Washington finalize … Read More

Dear Readers, This month, the Inside Dentistry cover feature addresses what the dental profession at large should be discussing when its members engage in a conversation about treating “special needs” patients. While clearly access to care remains an important factor in the delivery of treatment to “patients with special needs, more significant is removing barriers to their care stemming from … Read More

Dear Readers, Dentists are always trying to find ways to improve their practices and distinguish themselves from their professional colleagues in their respective geographic areas. In some cases this is a matter of marketing the convenient, lifestyle-consistent approach that the practice takes in treating its patients. In others, it’s about offering a one-stop shop for all of a patient’s dental … Read More

Dear Readers, In this issue, Inside Dentistry features the results of a national survey speaking to the public perception of dentists and dentistry. The findings are often striking, often surprising, and I believe they are worthy of your attention. Giving Patients What They Want. The National Oral Health Survey reported that there is a discrepancy between what patients want from … Read More

Dear Readers: As practicing restorative dentists, we have the opportunity to help patients in a variety of ways. At any given moment we may be called upon to restore a severely decayed tooth, intervene at the early onset of periodontal disease, enhance someone’s smile so he or she regains a sense of self-confidence, or perform a life-saving examination. As I’ve … Read More

Dear Readers: As we begin 2007 with hopes for success, good health, and prosperity for ourselves and those we hold dear, it’s also time to take inventory of our professional priorities and actions. We must ask if we are doing all we can to ensure that our patients will be around long enough in the future to take stock of … Read More

Dear Readers: In this issue we celebrate all that is dentistry—teaching, research, and patient care—and acknowledge that we’ve made a good career choice. Dental professionals in private practice are experiencing very significant financial rewards. More importantly, however, many in our profession are rethinking their roles in their patients’ health care. As I’ve said before, we are now oral care physicians, … Read More

Dear Readers: This month marks the one-year anniversary of Inside Dentistry. As we reflect on the time that’s passed, it appears we have come full circle. Our first year-long journey of examining the issues and thought-provoking questions that affect our profession has returned us to a topic that we first explored in our inaugural edition: education. Now, however, our attention … Read More

Dear Readers As always, everyone at Inside Dentistry would like to thank you your continued support.In this issue, we look at dental pharmacology, dentist prescribing habits, and what’s changed in practice over the years. Although we are becoming savvier in our use of pharmaceuticals, dental practitioners must be mindful not to adversely affect the health and well-being of our patients … Read More

Dear Readers: Time and again, whether at round table discussions or other dental venues, the question is asked of me,“How do you choose the materials that you use?” The question and the topic have been discussed a number of times among dental educators and leaders in our profession. To my knowledge, it hasn’t been done in print, at least not … Read More