Dear DrBicuspid Member,
Dental professionals in California, take note: New infection-control regulations developed by the Dental Board of California took effect August 20, and without making some significant changes in certain aspects of your everyday routine, you could inadvertently be in violation of the state's minimum standards for infection control.
Click here to read about the most significant changes and additions in this latest Hygiene Community news story.
Meanwhile, over in the Restoratives Community, a study in the current Journal of Endodontics found that nearly 75% of general dentists surveyed by researchers from the University of Iowa dental school said they would not refer their patients to an endodontist for implant placement. What is prompting their resistance? Read more.
And in the latest installment of Dr. Don Deems' series, Beyond Practice Management, he tackles a topic many of us are familiar with, whether we like to admit it or not: the challenge of making ourselves, and others, accountable.
