Dear DrBicuspid Member,
Congratulations to the winners of the 2011 DrBicuspid Dental Excellence Awards!
The response from our members this year was fantastic. Many thanks to everyone who participated, and hat's off to all the nominees.
To read the list of winners, click here.
Pros and cons of social media
Dental practices can benefit from the increased clout of real-time, multimedia marketing platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, according to social media experts at the recent Rocky Mountain Dental Convention. But there are potential landmines as well. Read more in this latest Practice Management Community feature.
In other news, cancer patients undergoing radiation treatment or chemotherapy suffer from a host of oral complications, many of which can be quite debilitating. A literature review in Oral Diseases outlines three leading oral side effects of cancer treatment and offers advice on how dental practitioners can help manage them.
And a session at this week's SPIE Photonics West meeting in San Francisco revealed one of the key reasons diagnosing oral cancer can be so difficult: the high number of confounding lesions in the oral cavity and the lack of diagnostic tools that can adequately distinguish them. Read more in this Imaging & CAD/CAM Community feature.
