By Alexandra Rabalski For over 9 years Henry Schein has been running the Back to School Program across Canada for children that come from underprivileged families. At this fun event, children receive backpacks filled with school supplies and healthy snacks. This year the program broke their record with the highest number of backpacks distributed in […]
The International Association of Dental Traumatology invites you to help with their project, which aims to develop a core outcome set for traumatic dental injuries in children and adults. The association is seeking your input on what these core outcomes should be. Click here to complete a survey that should not take more than 10 minutes to […]
This summaary is based on the article published in Canadian Family Physician: Trends in high-dose opioid prescribing in Canada (September 2014) Tara Gomes, Muhammad M. Mamdani, J. Michael Paterson, Irfan A. Dhalla, David N. Juurlink Context Canada and the United States have the highest levels of prescription opioid consumption in the world, and the use of these […]
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Dr. John O’Keefe, Director of Knowledge Networks at the Canadian Dental Association spoke with Ms. Christine LeGrand, Senior Knowledge Translation Specialist at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada, about a new position statement brought out by the Foundation titled: Sugar, Heart Disease and Stroke. Listen to the Audio Interview http://www.oasisdiscussions.ca/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Le-Grand_Christine_OriginalRecording.mp3 Heart and […]
Educated in Karachi, Pakistan, and London, England, Dr. Zeeshan Sheikh worked for two years as a clinician before deciding to pursue his interests in dental research (on the fabrication and characterization of bone grafts) in Canada. He recently completed his PhD at McGill University’s faculty of dentistry in August and is poised to begin a […]
Dr. John O’Keefe, Director of Knowledge Networks at the Canadian Dental Association, spoke with Dr. Paul Allison, Chair of a panel of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences (CAHS) about their recently published report: “Improving access to oral health care for vulnerable people living in Canada.” Dr. Paul Allison is also Dean of the Faculty […]
Dr. John O’Keefe spoke with Dr. Benoit Soucy about SunLife’s move to using CDAnet V4 which has created some issues for Canadian dentists. Listen to the Audio Interview Interview Highlights One of the features CDAnet version 4 that is of high value to dental offices is the ability to have within […]