Chiraz Guessaier, CDA Oasis Manager, spoke with Dr. Olva Odlum, senior scholar in the Department of Preventive Dentistry at the University of Manitoba, about the issue of extreme early childhood caries and their link to systemic health. Listen to the audio interview Interview Highlights The number of children between the ages […]
A two-day international symposium on Light Curing in Dentistry was held at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada on May 29th and 30th, 2014. The symposium was attended by over 40 key opinion leaders from academia and industry who worked together to develop following advice to practitioners about light curing. Consensus Statement printable version Read the […]
Context In February 2009, the Governing Council of the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) agreed on the need to develop a global legally binding instrument, or treaty, on mercury. It tasked governments to negotiate through an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) on Mercury, which met five times beginning in June 2010 and concluding in January 2013. The […]
On September 12, 2014, FDI World Dental Federation launched its Data Hub for Global Oral Health, a first of its kind online data-base for oral health and related information. The FDI Data Hub has been developed under the umbrella of Vision 2020: FDI’s guidelines to shaping the future of oral health. It builds on the […]
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 […]