Dear DrBicuspid Member,
For the hundreds of employees and thousands of patients of Allcare Dental and Dentures, the holidays were far from happy. On New Year's Eve, Allcare officials reportedly contacted its workers to tell them the company is going out of business, and by January 3 there were growing reports of Allcare offices across the U.S. being closed without warning. Read more in this developing news story.
In Hygiene Community news, most primary medical care providers are still not comfortable performing basic oral health assessments, and many consider oral health outside their realm of practice, recent studies have shown. But efforts are under way to change this mindset. Click here to read more.
In other hygiene news, researchers continue to debate the link (or lack thereof) between periodontal health and adverse pregnancy outcomes, and a veteran hygienist offers a simple solution to the ethical dilemma many hygienists face: to polish or not to polish?
Finally, be sure to honor dentistry's best and brightest by voting in the final round of the 2011 DrBicuspid Dental Excellence Awards. Voting begins today and runs through January 14. Click here to cast your votes now! The winners will be announced January 24.
