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Health Affairs calls for oral health abstracts

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The journal Health Affairs is calling for abstracts for its oral health-themed issue, which will be published December 2016.

February 16, 2016

Deadline nears for Minn. loan repayment program

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The deadline to apply for the 2016 Dedicated to Minnesota Dentists Dental Education Loan Repayment for Service Program is February 15, 2016.

January 13, 2016

Wash. tribe hires dental therapist for basic oral care

By Donna Domino

Citing an oral health crisis in their community, the Swinomish Indians of Washington state became the first tribe in the lower 48 states to hire a dental therapist to provide basic oral health services.

January 13, 2016

Public health hygienists can now practice in Ill.

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Public health dental hygienists in Illinois can now provide basic dental care to at-risk communities in the state.

January 11, 2016

ADA brief: Consumer dental spending remains flat

By Donna Domino

Spending on dental care remained flat between 2013 and 2014, continuing a multiyear trend, according to a new report from the ADA's Health Policy Institute. Dental care was 3.7% of U.S. healthcare spending in 2014, down from a peak of 4.5% in 2000.

January 6, 2016

ADA brief: Dentists’ earnings to stay stagnant

By Donna Domino

Dental spending remains sluggish five years after the economic recovery, according to a new report by the ADA's Health Policy Institute. The amount of empty chair time coupled with a wave of new dental graduates mean dentists' earnings will probably stay stagnant, the authors concluded.

January 5, 2016

UCSF rethinks oral health education -- for med students

By Theresa Pablos

In fall 2015, all 149 first-year medical students at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) learned how to perform a basic oral health screening and apply fluoride varnish -- the first of many steps to better integrate dental with other healthcare professions at UCSF. DrBicuspid.com speaks with Dr. Susan Hyde, one of the leaders of the program, and others involved.

January 4, 2016

Children's school-based dental: An imperative priority

By Jay W. Friedman, DDS, MPH

A basic tenet of a just society is that children, because they are least able to help themselves, be given priority for healthcare. In this Second Opinion, Dr. Jay W. Friedman advocates that as poor and minority children have the most oral disease, they should be given the highest priority for allocating oral healthcare resources.

December 21, 2015

Henry Schein earns top marks for workplace equality

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Henry Schein has earned top marks on the 2016 Corporate Equality Index, a national report on corporate policies related to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender workplace equality, administered by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation.

December 2, 2015

ADA survey: Debt, gender influence career choices

By Tony Edwards

Dentists who graduated with higher debt were less likely to specialize and more likely to enter private practice than other primary occupations, according to the findings of a new survey in the Journal of the American Dental Association.

October 27, 2015

Infographic: Professionally active dentists in 2015

By Theresa Pablos

If you are a dentist reading this, chances are you are a general dentist practicing in the state of California. How can we guess this? Because new data from the Kaiser Family Foundation breaks down information about professionally active U.S. dentists in 2015 by specialty and state.

October 18, 2015

Insider offers insights on rise of large group practices

By R. Dustin Dixon, DMD

In this Second Opinion, R. Dustin Dixon, DMD, owner of nine dental offices in Florida, responds to the recent ADA research brief on the growth of large group practices and offers his insights into this development.

October 13, 2015

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