Dr. Emiliya Taneva of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Dentistry received the first Robert H. Ahlstrom New Investigator Award for Dental Informatics Research. The award, named after the first chairman of the ADA Standards Committee on Dental Informatics, aims to highlight the crucial role that dental informatics standards play in improving the quality of patient… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the third article in a summer series of New Dentist Now blog posts on practice ownership. To read other articles from the series, click here. Whether you’re buying or building a practice, you will need a team of reliable advisors to support and guide you through the process and create the outcomes you envision.… Read More »
Seventeen member dentists, including several new dentists, attended an ADA Success Speaker Training program July 24 at ADA Headquarters to hone their facilitation and public speaking skills. The ADA launched ADA Success, an all-new program for dental students offering a series of programs on topics most relevant to students today. Each program is one-hour in length and is… Read More »
Los Angeles — Organizers of this year’s Veterans’ Smile Day are seeking volunteers from across the country to expand the annual event and provide more dental care to those who served in the U.S. military. “We are living the way we are living today thanks to the sacrifices these veterans made,” said Dr. Karin Irani, event organizer and… Read More »
Dentists, like anyone else, know that it’s important to stay fit. And yet how many of us tell our physicians that we want to be healthier, but (fill in the blank yourself) gets in the way of exercise. Do you believe your patients when they say they have no time to floss, or that it is too difficult? Didn’t… Read More »
Editor’s note: This is the second article in a summer series of New Dentist Now blog posts on practice ownership. To read other articles from the series, click here. Congratulations on your decision to become a practice owner! You have many challenges and rewards ahead of you. One of your first tasks is to decide whether to acquire… Read More »