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Dr. Jean Wu tells us why she thinks dentists should use the VELscope VX in every oral examination.

Product Review: How the VELscope VX can help save lives in your dental practice

Sex and oral health-what’s the connection?

What you need to know about the link between HPV and oral cancer [VIDEO]

Brenton Lively, product manager for DenMat, sits down with Dental Products Report to discuss the VELScope Vx, how it can save lives, and why it won a Pride Institute Best of Class award.

How the VELScope Vx can save lives and why it won a ‘Best of Class’ award [VIDEO]

There’s no way around it – periodontal disease has reached epidemic proportions in the United States.  Nearly 47 percent of all Americans will deal with some form of it at least once in their life.[1]  Compare that number to the percentage of Americans who currently smoke (19%)[2].  If you’ve ever tried to quit smoking, proper oral hygiene is a comparative walk in the park.

Dental Wellness Programs: Creating Optimum Dental Health That Impacts Overall Health Care Savings

With more than 20 years in the dental publishing industry, Kevin Henry has guided the leading publications in the industry, including serving as the former group editorial director for 

. He now works as the co-founder for IgniteDA, a community designed to empower, enlighten, and educate dental assistants, and as director of marketing for Fortune Management, a coaching community dedicated to help dentists and teams have extraordinary practices and lives. He can be reached at kevinhenry@fortunemgmt.com.

Knowing that many of your dental patients have fought or are fighting breast cancer, here are four things every dentist and dental team member should know.

4 things to consider when dealing with dental patients who are being treated for breast cancer

As part of the Dental Products Report monthly reading list series, Linda Steeves, RDH, reviewed author Charles Duhigg's "The Power of Habit: Why we do what we do in life and business." In this review, Steeves outlined ways incorporating Duhigg's habit-changing steps in the dental office can motivate patients to accept positive change. 

5 Steps to alter your patients' patterned oral health regimens

Invented by Orlando dentist Dr. Tim Pruett, Flossolution’s products tackle the challenges patients confront with recommended flossing routines by offering a simpler, more effective and pain-free method of flossing and brushing teeth.

How to use Flossolution for faster, easier, pain-free flossing regimens [VIDEO]

ELASTI-DAM Dental Dam, from Coltene, is the new powder-free, low protein latex dam that offers preferred low modulus handling for easier stretching to place over clamps.

Coltene introduces ELASTI-DAM® powder-free, low modulus dental dam

Stephanie Pietrantonio Lodding, RDH, says one of the hottest topics today in dentistry is the oral systemic link. But, what does that mean?

How to get patients to understand the Oral Systemic Link [VIDEO]

The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG), according to HealthDay News, recommends that physicians discuss oral health with all patients, including those who are pregnant or postpartum.

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