Category Archives: Community Outreach

Webinar: Marketing your dental office with video

Creating videos can help differentiate your dental practice from your competitors and increase awareness in your local community. They can also drive traffic to your website or generate interest in a particular service. Videos help build the trust that is important to establish in any patient relationship. A successful video is one that meets your dental practice’s business… Read More »

Is your Find-a-Dentist profile up to date?

In July, the ADA launched a new national ad campaign to help make it easier for patients to find ADA dentists. With the ad campaign, potential patients are seeing new digital ads that share amazing teeth facts and urge them to schedule a dental checkup with an ADA dentist. The ad campaign is the latest phase of a… Read More »

The power of a ‘Thank You’ card

Remember that warm and fuzzy feeling that you got last time you received a handwritten card in the mail? In a world that seems to grow more pessimistic every day, I’m using good ‘ol Thank You cards to celebrate the little victories in life and spread good vibes.  These little celebrations are helping not only my personal development,… Read More »

Working together against oropharyngeal cancer

The American Dental Association (ADA) and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have joined together to combine their efforts to prevent oropharyngeal cancers through educational outreach to increase HPV vaccination rates. The United States is experiencing an epidemic of cancers of the oropharynx (throat: the tonsils, base of tongue/lingual tonsil) related to human papillomavirus (HPV) particularly… Read More »

Your patients’ top fluoride questions — explained!

Need answers to your patients’ common fluoride questions? Dentists recently asked an ADA expert their questions about nature’s cavity fighter, based on what they hear from their patients, during a Facebook Live event the ADA hosted April 18. The event featured explanations from Dr. Kevin Donly, a member of the expert panel the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs… Read More »

Nominate an emerging leader for a Whiston Award by June 30

The ADA Foundation is seeking nominations for its Dr. David Whiston Leadership Awards, which recognize promising dentists who have shown the potential for leadership in efforts to improve the oral health of the public. The nomination deadline is June 30, 2017. The ADA Foundation provides two $5,000 awards each year — The Dr. David Whiston Leadership Award and… Read More »