Dental Clinic Opens for Patients Below Poverty Line

According to a survey shared by the American Dental Association (ADA) earlier this year, for the second year in a row dentists were named the top health practitioner Americans want to see more often. In fact, this survey (the Adults Oral Health & Well Being...

  The dental industry is well known for its massive technological advances over the years and its willingness to embrace new trends in an effort to help people achieve better oral health. But a new startup dental company is pushing the bounds of dental creativity...

The future really is here, folks, and it includes robotic dentists. According to a recent article in the South China Morning Post, a shortage of qualified dentists for the country’s large population and some citizens deciding to trust their dental health to...

As anyone who’s checked their patients for gum disease knows, a periodontal probe doesn’t lead to the most comfortable of dental experiences. This lack of comfortable diagnostic tools has led a team of engineers at UC San Diego to attempt to find a less painful, more...

In an effort to have a more ethical licensing exam that doesn’t involve performing dental work on live patients, the ADA has begun creating a new exam that still tests clinical competency while avoiding the risk of a patient having something done incorrectly or ending...

How many of you are fighting the good fight to keep patients from waiting to set up an appointment until an oral health issue has already festered into a serious problem? Or have perfected your “going to the dentist twice a year isn’t a replacement for good home...

Facing the sad news that her 11-month-old daughter had Type 1 Diabetes, a Reno, Nevada woman began researching new methods of treatment. She soon learned about encapsulation therapy, which is where an encapsulated device containing insulin-producing islet cells...

All too often when the world loses one of its pioneers, leaders or luminaries and we reflect back on their life, it is then we learn so much more about the incredible contributions they made over the course of their lifetime.  As our team at Dental City read more...

Okay, first things first, I will still continue to have more than my fair share of pasta. Spaghetti and I are practically BFFs. Whew. Glad I got that off my chest. However, after reading about a recent pilot study by German researchers I may need to analyze other...

When we think of those in our lives we should be most thankful for, our own dentists may not the one of the first who come to mind. But for a 25-year-old man from New Jersey that’s definitely not the case. Growing up Alex Kasprowitz visited a dentist that kept patient...

Imagine not having to ask your patients “So, when’s the last time you’ve flossed?” again. That’d be pretty great, right? Well, while that may never totally be the case, a new patent-pending invention could change people’s flossing habits for the better. Enter,...

While researching topics for future articles we stumbled across a story too adorable not to share. (We googled “dog in a dental office.” It was a Friday. Don’t judge.) Golden Pediatric Dentistry and Orthodontics in Quantico, Va. has a permanent four-legged,...