This question was submitted by a general dentist: Does anyone have a polite and professional way to address the HPV issue with patients in a dental office setting? Drs. Nita Mazurat, from the University of Manitoba, and Suham Alexander provided a quick initial response. The major role of the dentist with respect to HPV is to […]
The Organization for Safety Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP) released the Ebola toolkit for dentists. Drs. Nita Mazurat and Suham Alexander prepared the following resource based on the OSAP toolkit. The OSAP website has just been updated. Click here for the updated toolkit. Visit the updated CDC website The guiding principle “triage, cohort, and isolate” during times […]
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 […]
The September 9th edition of the News Bites included a news item about a new interactive radiography manual, authored by Dr. Anthea Senior, Clinical Associate professor in the radiology department in the School of Dentistry at the University of Alberta. The aim of the e-book is for students to have a quick reference guide to […]
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 […]
By Dr. Bernie Dolansky Dr. Bernard Dolansky B.A, DDS, MS, Cert.Endo is past President of the Ottawa Dental Society, the Ontario Dental Association, the Canadian Dental Association, and the Dentistry Canada Fund. As a partner at Tier Three Brokerage, he uses his experience to assist dentists with transition planning; practice purchase and sale; evaluations; associateships; retirement […]
This question was submitted by a general dentist: If expressed through the apical foramen during RCT, how often and over what time period will any excess root canal cement/sealer dissolve? Dr. Mary Dabuleanu from Dabuleanu Dental and Dr. Suham Alexander provided this quick initial response: Root canal sealers or cements play […]
This question was submitted by a general dentist: Are there any detrimental effects of tooth-whitening agents on enamel? Some have shown increased microfracture in the enamel seen only under SEM; however, is it clinically relevant? Dr. Laura Tam, from the Faculty of Dentistry at the University of Toronto, and Dr. Suham Alexander provided this quick […]