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Yikes! Dentists now have masks and more masks (N95, KN95, fake N95); face shields; HEPA air filtration; Upper Room Ultraviolet Germicidal Irradiation (UVGI); HVAC professionals redesigning office ventilation systems; restricted office ventilation; single use isolation gowns; multiple high-volume suction devices and preprocedural rinses; recommended reduced patient volume; check lists; and more paperwork. The result? Increased […]

Stand-up dentistry in the COVID-19 era and beyond will: Make dental personnel safer Increase your Social Distance working length by 20-30% compared to sit-down dentistry Decrease your disease transmission risk exposure to contaminated aerosol Decrease your pain, discomfort, fatigue and risk exposure to repetitive stress injuries Practicing dentistry smarter is key to your good health. […]

Is Dental Treatment Really Safe During and After the Coronavirus Crisis?  Dentistry has two major disease transmission risk problems quite unique to dental care: Continued use of aerosol-generating devices that create a contaminated aerosol cloud that hangs in the air for hours Delivering contaminated dental water to the patient in the chair through non-sterile dental […]

Feeling a need to jump on the laser bandwagon? If it is clinically relevant therapeutic improvements you are looking for, perhaps it’s okay if you have not done so. The July 2018 issue of the Journal of Periodontology shines a light on the best evidence regarding the efficacy of lasers used alone or as an […]

The September 5th 2018 post at News2Use delivered a recently published summary article and two periodontitis staging and grading guides (published by the American Academy of Periodontology) regarding the new classification of periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions. That article was developed from the proceedings of the 2017 World Workshop on the Classification of Periodontal […]

Published in the summer of 2018, a new classification scheme for periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions was developed by the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) and the European Federation of Periodontology (EFP) and included expert participants from all over the world. This issue of News2Use delivers 3 beneficial documents for your review and reference […]

The effect of twice daily kiwifruit consumption on periodontal and systemic conditions before and after treatment: A randomized clinical trial.  Graziani F, Discepoli N, Gennai S et al. J Periodontol. 2018;89:285–293. This interesting article published in the March 2018 issue of the Journal of Periodontology concludes that “Kiwifruit consumption reduces gingival inflammation despite lack of […]

Root sensitivity near the gingival margin can make a person avoid effective plaque removing oral hygiene procedures. This results in increased plaque accumulation, a risk factor for carious lesion development as well as for gingival inflammation. For teeth susceptible to gingival recession (see susceptibility factors on Gingival Recession Checklist), gingival inflammation is a major risk […]

A recent Associated Press report proclaimed that flossing isn’t necessary for good oral health because of the absence of “gold-standard” randomized controlled trials supporting its benefits. Although the dental profession has already responded numerous times in the news media in defense of interdental cleaning, confusion continues to persist. Patients historically relied and trusted the experience […]

Can we now say to our patients and healthcare professional colleagues that periodontitis has been shown to be an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease and that there is a causal link between the two diseases? Published in AM J Cardiol (May 2016), Relation of Periodontitis to Risk of Cardiovascular and All-Cause Mortality (from a […]