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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

The Dentist Is In

Clean and green toothbrush

HERE comes the world’s first clean and green toothbrush. It’s clean and green because it is claimed to be carbon neutral, raising environmental standards in...

Dentistry – and medicine

FOR A LONG time, dentistry has been independent of medicine. That’s the practice, generally. And that’s about to change. Both dentists and doctors of medicine and...

The dangers that lurk

IT’S INTERESTING to know that not only Filipinos do it. Americans do it too. Over six in 10 Americans or 64 percent of those surveyed...

#DentalSAFETY highlights good practices

THE #DentalSAFETY is a grassroots movement started in the United States. It emphasizes that dentists remain committed to providing excellent oral healthcare to their patients...

#DentalSAFETY, a grassroots movement

ON JUNE 10, many American dentists launched a new grassroots movement to encourage public confidence about the safety of dental practices. It goes without saying...

When a patient is COVID positive

THESE days of the new normal, dentists and the dental staff are highly at risk of getting infected by the potentially deadly coronavirus disease. That’s...

Plastic and other surfaces (Part 2)

THE WORLD Health Organization (WHO) says that washing hands and cleaning and disinfecting frequently touched surfaces daily prevents the spread of the virus. The US...

Plastic and other surfaces (Part 1)

THE VIRUS that causes the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)  survives outside the human body in the air, on objects and surfaces. A study published in March...

Dental clinics reopen

THE NEW normal has arrived. In a newspaper article I came across, it was reported that a dentist and her staff in a clinic in...

Children need special care

ā€œTOO much, too soon would see us putting our patients and the profession at risk.ā€ The words of wisdom come from Dr. Claire Stevens, a...