Dear DrBicuspid Member,
ANAHEIM, CA - Our coverage of the 2019 California Dental Association's CDA Presents meeting starts with a presentation about a situation that every dentist has faced. What do you do when a patient claims to brush and floss, but the decay keeps coming back? Dr. Jean Creasey spoke about caries risk factors, including not-so-obvious ones.
Also from Anaheim, Associate Editor Theresa Pablos and I bring you a first-day summary video of the 2019 CDA Presents meeting. We discuss product announcements, innovative exhibits, and more.
In other news this week on DrBicuspid.com, adding more practices comes with financial, management, and logistical factors that all need to be carefully considered. Additional practices always have a direct impact on the career and financial well-being of the dentist. It's best to know all the ramifications of owning a small group practice before you begin building one, Dr. Roger P. Levin advises in his latest Practice Success tip
Finally, periodontist Dr. Alvin Danenberg writes that dentists positively contribute to the health of our patients in many ways. In this Second Opinion, however, he details his ideas about how dentists and dentistry, as a whole, fall short in some key areas and how to address these shortcomings.
