Sharp Tips for Maintaining Your Scalers 

The worldwide pop culture phenomenon is back, and it’s taking another bite out of your calendar this week. That’s right, SHARK WEEK is making its annual appearance. You probably already know this if you’ve been seeing sharks all over your televisions. In 2016, we were inspired by Shark Week and discovered a unique dental connection to this tradition. What does a shark and dentistry have in common, you ask?

3 Ways to Improve the Efficiency and Safety of This Critical Space

What would you do with five extra minutes per procedure in your dental practice?

Does Your Office Follow the CDC’s Guidelines Correctly?
 

Instruments must be properly taken care of if they are to function as they were intended, for as long as they were intended. A safe and efficient cleaning process will protect the investment you’ve made in high-quality dental instruments.

Saving Smiles with Modern Endodontics

Contemplating Root Canal Awareness Week got me thinking about the profound strides the field of endodontics has taken over recent decades, juxtaposed with the considerable distance it still must traverse—particularly in reshaping its perception among both patients and dental professionals.

Get Back to Basics with These 3 Cleaning Tips for Dental Professionals

Are You Doing Enough to Keep Patients and Practitioners Safe?

Are inefficiencies in the room turnover process impacting your practice?

While each operatory in your practice may see ten or more patients daily, and the time in between patients may go by in the blink of an eye, those precious few minutes between patients are critical to the success of the practice and the safety of your patients. Although the steps in infection prevention are numerous, they are all important and the stakes are high.

If you had to pick just one set of composite instruments from the hundreds of designs and combinations available, which would you choose?

This may sound like another one of those “deserted island” questions, but for general and cosmetic practitioners, limiting your setup to instruments which truly help you to be efficient matters. It is much more beneficial to have a few carefully-selected, high-quality instruments at the ready than a dazzling array leaving you wondering what to use next. The world’s best golfers, after all, only carry 14 clubs in their bags.

Are your surgical instruments as expert as the hands that hold them?

— Mauro Labanca, MD, DDS, FICD
Dental Key Opinion Leader and Guest Blogger for Hu-Friedy

How Online Communities Are Game-Changers for Dental Clinicians

The online experience has come a long way since those first bare-bones, barely functioning websites that emerged 30 years ago. Today, it’s an omnipresent force that connects our computers and smartphones to appliances, bank accounts, entertainment – and most importantly, people. Lots and lots of people.