March 20th is World Oral Health Day, an FDI World Dental Federation initiative that aims to empower people with the knowledge, tools, and confidence to secure good oral health. This year’s theme is “A Happy Mouth is a Happy Body”. In this Oasis discussion, CDA President, Dr. Heather Carr, discusses the importance of the link […]
A new public dental health clinic has opened in Red Deer, Alberta. The AHS Public Health Dental Clinic is a partnership between Alberta Health Services, Greenshield, Red Deer Street Connect, and Street Clinic Primary Care Network. To discuss how this initiative came about, Dr. Heidi Rabie, who’s the Chief of Public Health Dental Clinics in […]
CDA has published its latest Abacus Data survey results, tracking public opinion and behavioural trends related to current issues facing dentistry. This video provides a short summary of key findings in the Wave 14 data (September 11-16, 2023), including an evaluation of public support for a national dental care program and an assessment of the […]
November 18-24 is World AMR Awareness Week 2023 — a global campaign to raise awareness and understanding of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and promote best practices to reduce the emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. In this video, Dr. Susan Sutherland, former Chief of Dentistry at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and founding president of the Canadian […]
The Journal of the American Dental Association has published a new evidence-based clinical practice guideline for the pharmacologic management of acute dental pain in children. The report was prepared by the American Dental Association Science and Research Institute, the University of Pittsburgh School of Dental Medicine, and the Center for Integrative Global Oral Health at […]
This Sunday, October 15, 2023, the Indigenous Dental Association of Canada (IDAC) celebrates the inaugural National Indigenous Oral Health Day, an initiative to address oral health inequity in Indigenous communities across Canada. In this video, Dr. Sheri McKinstry, a pediatric dentist from Saskatoon, Sask., and founder of IDAC, explains why there is such a need […]
Southwestern Public Health (SWPH) has launched a mobile dental clinic to deliver dental care to low-income seniors who are 65 years and older and enrolled in the Ontario Seniors Dental Care Program. In this video, Kim Casier, an oral health public manager at SWPH, discusses the backstory and how the initiative came to be. She […]
One of the objectives of FDI World Dental Federation (FDI) is to develop and disseminate policies, standards, and information related to all aspects of oral health care globally. In this video, CDA’s Chief Knowledge Officer, Dr. Benoit Soucy, discusses five recently released FDI policy statements and looks ahead to the meeting of the World Dental […]