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Thursday, June 16, 2011

Dental Did You Know: The Incidence of Paresthesia after a Dental Injection

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The incidence of paresthesia (loss or altered sensation) after the injection of an anesthetic is about 1 out of 785,000 (very low). Source...
Thursday, June 02, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Dentist to Population Ratio in Ontario

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The ratio of dentists to the general population over the years: 1970 1:2307 1980 1:1923 1990 1:1676 2000 1:1670 2010 1:1545 Source: ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Estimates of Seniors in Canada without Dental Insurance

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One estimate revealed that by 2021, there will be over 8 million Canadians 55 years or older without dental insurance. That will be about 1 ...
Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Irrigation in Root Canals

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When cleaning the pulpal (nerve) area of a tooth during a root canal procedure, sodium hypochlorite (a strong base - pH 11 and more commonly...
Sunday, May 15, 2011

Great Dental Blog added to the Blog list

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I just added to our list of dental blogs the fantastic blog of Dr. Spindel, who maintains a practice in Manhattan, NY. Great full length pos...
Wednesday, May 04, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Common Systemic Diseases in Elderly Patients that Affect Dental Care: Arthritis

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Arthritis can cause reduced dexterity for oral hygiene/restorative procedures, joint discomfort in the dental chair, and a tendency to bleed...
Tuesday, May 03, 2011

Dental Did You Know: JCDA is on Twitter!

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The Journal of the Canadian Dental Association is on Twitter!  You can follow them at: @JCDATweets . Hans Skariah, B.Sc., DMD Promenade C...
Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Dental Did You Know: General Dental Website Info

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The average time spent on dental websites was 142.7 seconds. The top 10 pages accounted for almost 79% of total page views. Source: Sesam...
Monday, April 18, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Number of Dentists in Ontario and Professional Corporations

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As of the end of 2010, there were approximately 8 500 dentists in Ontario with about 4 500 registered as professional corporations. Source...
Friday, April 15, 2011

Dental Did You Know: The Ontario Dental Association is on Facebook and other Dental Social Media Information

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Yes, it has finally happened :) The Ontario Dental Association is on Facebook. (Search for Canadian Dental Health). In addition, a survey of...
Monday, April 11, 2011

Our New Hygienist!

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We've just hired Megan Pearson as our 2nd hygienist. Megan has worked with me at the Tavistock Dental Health Group's practice in Tav...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Mothers and Dental Appointments

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Mothers make 90% of their family's dental appointments! (Wow!) Source: Wilson C, Word of Mouth, Delivered Digitally, Dental Practice ...
Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Dental Did You Know: What is IPR?

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IPR is an acronym for Interproximal Reduction. A technique usually used in orthodontics and restorative dentistry to thin teeth using sandin...
Wednesday, March 09, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Analgesic Prescribing Patterns for Dentists

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When combating pain, dentists prescribe acetaminophen (Tylenol) or NSAIDs (like Advil) 89.6% of the time, with narcotics being prescribed 10...
Wednesday, March 02, 2011

Nice Decision Guide for Performing Root Canals on Compromised Teeth

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Saw this nice link to the American Association of Endodontists website. It's a large PDF file (4.0MB) presentation showing some of the g...
Sunday, February 20, 2011

Dental Did You Know: The Risk of Dying from Anaesthesia

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The risk of dying from anaesthesia is very low: about 0.58 cases per million. In comparison, Air Canada lists its fatality rate at 0.33 per ...
Sunday, February 13, 2011

Dental Did You Know: The number of dentists in Canada

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There are approximately 20 000 dentists in Canada. Source:  http://www.cda-adc.ca/en/cda/news_events/statistics/default.asp Read on Feb 1...
Sunday, February 06, 2011

Dental Did You Know: Bacterial Counts in Dental Plaque

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Bacterial levels can reach more than 100 000 000 000 micrograms per mg of dental plaque. Source:  Li X et al, Systemic diseases caused by...
Sunday, January 02, 2011

Dental Did You Know: The Greatest Opportunities for a Practice to Grow ; 2010 North American Dental Practice Survey

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The greatest opportunities for practice growth identified by survey participants are: Patient referrals Increasing % of patients who come...
Saturday, January 01, 2011

Dental Did You Know: The Worst Age Group for No-Shows; 2010 North American Dental Practice Survey

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Probably not too surprising...the number one age group noted by those surveyed that were most likely not to show up for a dental appointmen...