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 […]
Recently released figures by Statistics Canada indicate a significant increase in the incidence rate of oropharyngeal cancer. This is despite decreased observed incidence rates in many other commonly diagnosed cancers. In this video discussion with Dr. Firoozeh Samim, a specialist in oral medicine and oral maxillofacial pathology and Assistant Professor at McGill Faculty of Dental […]
Canada is currently in the midst of what is being described as an oral health crisis among Indigenous communities. Poor access to dental care, lack of water fluoridation, poor nutrition, and systemic racism are some of the main challenges in dire need of redress. In this video, Dr. Sheri McKinstry, a pediatric dentist from Saskatoon […]
CDA has published its latest survey results tracking public opinion and behavioural trends related to current issues facing the dental profession, most notably the Canadian Dental Care Plan. In this video, David Coletto, CEO of Abacus Data, offers a summary of key findings in the Wave 13 survey data, including: Awareness and uptake levels for […]