Where to seek dental treatment?
THIS IS a question that arises among many during the lockdowns: Where does one seek emergency dental treatment?
It would be in the Emergency Room...
Waiting for dental clinics to re-open
IT’S BEEN a couple of months since the lockdowns have been imposed in most of the country to prevent coronavirus transmissions.
While many provinces are...
Lockdown food
AS WE stay home in a national lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, there will be plenty of times to turn to...
Dental care in a pandemic (Part 2)
THE PHILIPPINE Dental Association (PDA) “strongly” advises dental clinics “to exclude procedures which will generate aerosols of any kind at this time.”
To our dear...
Dental care in pandemic (Part 1)
FILIPINO dental practitioners should suspend all face to face dental care.
The exemptions are when emergency life-threatening cases require dental procedures during the enhanced community...
UMak: Innovative education (Part 2)
EIGHTEEN years ago Professor Tomas B. Lopez, Jr., President of the University of Makati (UMak), started the Dualized University Education System or DUES together...
UMak: Innovative education (Part 1)
THE UNIVERSITY of Makati or UMak, under the pioneering leadership of its President, Professor Tomas B. Lopez, Jr., will open a new College of...
Zonweiss: The start of it all
IN THE United States of the late 1800s, nobody really cared that much about good oral hygiene.
Less than 10 percent of Americans paid attention...
Virtual dentistry
VIRTUAL reality may yet make practice perfect.
Oral Health Therapy students at the University of Newscastle, in New South Wales, Australia, are using virtual reality...
Changing the world, one mouth at a time
A TASTY way to unlock the mysteries of oral diseases.
That’s the dream of Wichita State Professor David McDonald and Graduate Assistant Alisha Prince as...