Dear DrBicuspid Member,
A $10 million Wisconsin state grant for the Marshfield Clinic's new rural dental education outreach facility may be in jeopardy after a state administrator said the grant cannot be used for a dental school. But clinic officials say such restrictions were not in the original agreement. What's really at the center of this dispute? Read more.
In other Practice Management Community news, more women are needed to fill leadership positions in dentistry, according to Kathleen O'Loughlin, DMD, executive director of the ADA. Click here to read more about her candid talk at the first Ladies in the Loupe forum in Colorado on July 16, in which she addressed an often taboo topic in dentistry: gender inequities.
Finally, are amalgam restorations replaced too often? That is the contention of a University of Florida researcher following a seven-year study published in the latest Journal of the American Dental Association. In fact, amalgam repairs are an equally effective yet more conservative treatment option, the study found, and the cost and time savings could contribute to an improvement in access to care. Read more in this latest Restoratives Community feature.
