Category Archives: Helping You Be a Better Dentist

10 steps to starting a Head Start program in your office

Head Start began as a summer program in 1965 and serves the nation’s most vulnerable children. It focuses on school readiness with inclusion of medical, dental, nutrition and mental health. Action for Dental Health has created a basic 10-step process to launching your own Head Start program in your dental office. In essence, the 10 steps are: Step… Read More »

Editors’ Pick: Favorite New Dentist Now blog posts of 2014

It’s been an eventful 2014 for New Dentist Now as it continues to feature resources for new dentists and dental students, along with news and insight on the dental profession and beyond. Just in case you missed them, here’s a look back to some of our favorite and most popular blog posts of the year. In Zambia, new… Read More »

Small GPR program in Evanston, Ill. delivers volumes of experience

Dental school is only the tip of the iceberg. The more I learned, the more I realized what I didn’t know. A general practice residency (GPR) was the next logical step. I was looking for a small residency program with sufficient fixed prostho and endo experience. What I got was exactly that plus significant oral surgery experience, my… Read More »

Institute for Diversity in Leadership members discuss opportunities, challenges in advancing inclusion, diversity in ADA

The Institute for Diversity in Leadership 2014-15 class members engaged the ADA Board of Trustees this week in a panel discussion at ADA Headquarters. The goal: For the ADA Board of Trustees to gain insights and perspectives from the current class participants of the Institute, which includes new dentists, regarding opportunities and challenges related to advancing diversity and… Read More »

Dr. Yau selected for 2014 John W. Stanford New Investigator award

Dr. Robert Yau is the winner of the 2014 John W. Stanford New Investigator Award. The ADA Council on Scientific Affairs selected Dr. Yau, who is pursuing specialty training in oral and maxillofacial surgery, to receive the award, which is being bestowed for just the second time in as many years. Dr. Yau earned his D.M.D. at the… Read More »

Did Hermey inspire you to be a dentist?

He didn’t want to build toys. He dreamed of becoming a dentist. According to ADA News, Hermey the Elf continues to do his part in increasing oral health literacy among children and adults — 50 years after the animated classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” first aired on national television. The ADA is featuring Hermey the Elf in an… Read More »