Dr. Charles Lekic is the Chair of the CAPD Winnipeg Organizing Committee. He joined me to provide more information on the conference scientific and social programs. The CAPD 2017 conference will take place in Winnipeg, MB, September 14 to 16, 2017. We hope you can join! Chiraz Guessaier, CDA Oasis Manager Visit the CAPD website […]
Dr. George Priest is a prosthodontist in South Carolina, who recently published a literature review that he compiled over the years on the topic of screw-retained single implants. It was a pleasure for me to get to know him and to host him on CDA Oasis. Dr. Priest promised to come back again to present […]
In the course of my search for relevant and timely research to share on Oasis Discussions, I found the article that is the topic of today’s video conversation: Evaluation of different polishing systems and speeds for dental zirconia. The article is important because of the multitude of polishing systems that are available and the particular characteristic […]
It was early morning in Sydney and it was a great pleasure for me to meet Dr. Kylie Gwynne, Director of the Poche Centre for Indigenous Health at the University of Sydney in Australia. Dr. Gwynne co-authored an article in which they cost compared two models of dental care that were provided for Aboriginal communities […]
Timothy Brown, CEO of ROICorp, returns to Oasis Discussions to shed some light on goodwill. Highlights Goodwill is an important aspect of a dental practice and contributes to the valuation or appraisal of the practice. However, do we really know what factors weigh into determining the goodwill of a practice? Goodwill is comprised of hidden […]
It was a pleasure to host my friend Dr. Mark Donaldson to speak about a somewhat ‘less thought-about’ issue for dentists: sugar in commonly prescribed medications for dental patients. We don’t usually think about it much, but much of the medication prescribed today contains quite a bit of sugar, and dental practitioners need to take this fact […]
We may be in the early stages of a good news story. My interview with Dr. Thomas Oates, Professor and Chair of the Department of Advanced Oral Sciences and Therapeutics at the University of Maryland, was about a recent study he co-authored and published in Clinical Implant Dentistry & Related Research journal, titled: Dental Implant […]
As part of our collaboration with the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH), I had the pleasure to interview Dr. Sachin Pendharkar, Associate Professor of Medicine and Community Health Sciences at the University of Calgary. CADTH conducted a comprehensive health technology assessment on Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). The assessment was later used as […]