Dentaltown Magazine - March 2009

Articles
Benjamin Lund, Editor, Dentaltown Magazine
The Next Generation of Oral Cancer Detection
Sandy Pardue
Practice management consultant, Sandy Pardue, discusses ways for your practice to stay afloat and actually flourish in this down economy.
Benjamin Lund, Editor, Dentaltown Magazine
Dr. Howard Farran borrowed against his practice, took out a second mortgage, and spent all his money on developing his idea of an online community for dental professionals. Today, that idea celebrates 10 years of fruition. Here's the story of the beginning of Dentaltown.
Not all general dentists have an oral surgeon down the street that they can refer to. In this article, Jay B. Reznick, DMD, MD, discusses ways to help you to think more like an oral surgeon, so that you can approach patients and problems the same way that a surgeon does.
For the last 10 years, support from companies like Comlite Systems has been crucial to Dentaltown's success. In celebrating our 10th anniversary, we also celebrate these companies that have consistently supported us since the beginning.
Hygiene & Prevention
Trisha E. O'Hehir, RDH, BS Editorial Director, Hygienetown Magazine
Beyond Basic Polishing
Trisha E. O'Hehir, RDH, BS Editorial Director, Hygienetown Magazine
Welcome to the New Hygienetown Section
Trisha E. O'Hehir, RDH, BS Editorial Director, Hygienetown Magazine
What do you do when the parents drop children off for hygiene appointments and never come into the office? Do you provide the prophy, fluoride, radiographs and exam for these patients without parental consent?
What do you do when probing scores vary between clinicians, the patient has been led to believe they have no perio problems, yet there are 4-5mm probing depths throughout and pinpoint bleeding in one-third of sites?
The collaborative dynamics of respect, unconditional listening, shared knowledege and working together for the common good, create optimum restorative and health outcomes for the patient.
Medical Emergencies
In This Issue
Howard Farran, DDS, MBA, MAGD
A Decade of Dentaltown
Thomas Giacobbi, DDS, FAGD, Editorial Director Dentaltown Magazine
Something to Share
Practice Management
In this course Drs. Karl Leinfelder and Douglas Terry present information on the newer universal composite resins and a technique for placement and finishing posterior composite resin restorations.
Advanced Techniques and Efficiency in Endodontics
Message Boards
How are you saving money in your practice? Townies give a little insight as to how they're being frugal for 2009.
Files and techniques are often the focus of our discussions, when the end goal must be kept in mind.
Townie Clinicals
"Black triangles" cause many aesthetically minded dentists to cringe. Check out this case and be confident the next time you have a single anterior implant to restore.

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