Dr. Marco Caminiti spoke with Dr. John O'Keefe about his recent experience helping the Addis Ababa University’s (AAU) School of Dentistry develop postgraduate specialty training programs in the discipline of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, where AAU has just commenced a specialty training program. The Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration (TAAAC) assists Ethiopians in identifying and […]
Dr. Andrew Nette has been practicing dentistry for 43 years. As passionate as the first day he started his career, Dr. Nette continues to give back to a profession that he considers most rewarding. For the past 25 years, he’s remained a professor one day a week at Dalhousie University where he’s able to pass […]
Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) presents as an unexplained pain, dysesthesia, or burning in a clinically normal and healthy oral mucosa.1, 2 A diagnosis is made if the symptoms recur daily for more than 2 h/d and for at least 3 months as per the definition from the Committee of the International Headache Society.3 It is […]
I invited the corresponding author of an article recently published in Advances in Dental Research, Dr. Effie Ioannidou, to tell us about the barrieres women researchers face and if there are potential interventions that will reduce those barriers. Dr. Ioannidou is Professor in the Department of Periodontology at the UConn School of Dental Medicine. Please […]
Persistent idiopathic facial pain (PIFP) is also known as atypical odontalgia, phantom facial pain, and atypical facial pain. PIFP has been defined as constant facial and/or oral pain with varying presentations, occurring for at least 2 h/d, and lasting for more than 3 months. A diagnosis is made when the patient presents with the symptoms […]
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