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If you ask a lot of dentists, they usually would consider marketing as hard, complex, confusing and probably would rather leave it to the experts like an MBA graduate or advertising firm perhaps.  Well it doesn’t work like that; even the simplest person without any masters can do it. When it comes to your own practice, the one who needs to be the marketing expert is You.  All you need to know are the fundamentals of marketing, the willingness to learn and how to implement on these…

Gum disease affects millions of people around the work.  And, gum recession ( the loss of gum tissue and supporting bone around a natural tooth) makes up a big part of the problem. …

My partner, Giovanni Castellucci, and I have been placing dental implants in our periodontal practice for over 20 years. Every day, we see an ever increasing amount of requests from our restorative colleagues and patients from …

We live in a very hectic world where every second counts. In fact, even the time that a webpage loads is significant for us. Every time you make a search via Google, the search engine giant will tell you that it only took 0.25 seconds for them to compile more than 50,000,000 results which match your query. And although that seems like a very small amount of time, some people believe that Google can do an even better job and pull results faster. Efficiency is something which everyone is in a…

Scientists are reporting identification of two substances in licorice -- used extensively in Chinese traditional medicine -- that kill the major bacteria responsible for tooth decay and gum disease, the leading causes of tooth loss in children and adults. In a study in ACS' Journal of Natural Products, they…

Dr. Andreas Kurbad, Germany

Keynote Speaker

  An extensive treatment planning is the key for success in esthetic…

Dear Colleagues,

It is with great honor and pleasure we welcome you to the 2nd Iraqi Dental Reunion/IDA Annual Conference March 30th – 31st, 2012 Saad Palace, Erbil Iraq.

The 1st Iraqi Dental Reunion 2011 was a great success, achieving record attendance and further establishing a reputation as the dental industry's leading…

Part of ensuring that your dental practice thrives is making sure that you have a steady stream of paying patients. This can come in the form of getting new patients. The process of luring in new patients is known as the “show biz” side of direct marketing. This is because you need to increase your marketing budget, employ creative tactics, and make use of media. But the problem is this – it is expensive to find new customers as compared to keeping existing ones. This is why the smartest way…

The saliva of people with pancreatic cancer and pancreatitis varies from that of healthy people, according to a study published online Oct. 12 in Gut.

Researchers at University of California Los Angeles—led by James J. Farrell, MD, an assistant professor in the Division of Digestive Diseases…

Thank you for taking time to read this letter. As the problem of food safety has been becoming worse and worse nowadays, I am obliged to write to you.

Several days ago, one of my classmates came back from supermarket with a large bag of food. Because of having found a new style of tinned?ish in the food store, she was very glad. Several other roommates were invited to enjoy the “mouth?atering chicken”. Unfortunately, after finishing the food, all of my three friends had stomachaches…

Nearly 20 million Americans annually visit a dentist but not a general healthcare provider, according to an NYU study published in the American Journal of Public Health. 



The study, conducted by a nursing-dental research team at NYU, is the first of its kind to determine the proportion of Americans who are seen annually by a dentist but not by a general healthcare provider. 



This finding suggests dentists can play a crucial role as health care practitioners in the…

Professional tooth scaling was associated with fewer heart attacks and strokes in a study from Taiwan presented at the American Heart Association's Scientific Sessions 2011. 

Among more than 100,000 people, those who had their teeth scraped and cleaned (tooth scaling) by a dentist or dental hygienist had a 24…

Invisalign is a modern approach to straightening teeth, using a custom-made series of plastic trays called aligners.  Invisalign treatment has grown in popularity over the past few years and has been used to treat over a million patients.  Many potential patients are drawn to the treatment…

New research from the University of Kent suggests that many of the common orthodontic problems experienced by people in industrialised nations is due to their soft modern diet causing the jaw to grow too short and small relative to the size of their teeth. The research, which was conducted by Dr Noreen von…

A mouthwash concocted by a UCLA microbiologist may render cavities and tooth decay a thing of the past.

The innovation developed by Wenyuan Shi, chairman of the UCLA School of Dentistry’s oral biology section, acts as a sort of “smart…

How to protect your tooth, we teach you some easy tooth protect methods.

Dear friends, do you how to protect your tooth? The writer like most people, brush my tooth 2-3 times/one day. If there are no time at noon, I will also drink some water to make a simple brush. But I usually take a long time to brush…