Washington—The Association urged federal health officials to exclude dentists from proposed regulations that would deny claims for Medicare Part D drugs unless the prescriber is enrolled in Medicare or has a valid opt-out affidavit on file.
ADA urges dentist exemption from Medicare enrollment
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– March 14, 2014
Reasons for Getting Dental Implants
Dentures and bridges look and feel cumbersome, so state-of-the-art dental implants are the choice of many baby boomers who need to replace lost teeth.
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– March 14, 2014
Delta Dental plan for employees limits cleanings for healthy adults to one per year
Delta Dental unveiled a new risk-based dental insurance plan Jan. 1 for its employees in Michigan, Indiana and Ohio that reduces the number of cleanings each year for healthy adults.
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– March 13, 2014
Terry Pratchett
“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
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– March 13, 2014
NY legislation pits doctors against dentists
Physicians are fighting legislation to add dentists to a state-funded program designed to help train and place physicians in medically underserved areas. The Doctors Across New York (DANY) program, funded through the state Department of Health, was enacted in 2008 to help recruit and retain physicians in rural and inner-city communities. Grants are awarded for physician practice support, including reimbursement of loans to set up new practices and help pay residency loans; and ambulatory care training. Legislation… (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Biotechnology headlines)
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– March 13, 2014
A Lighter Look at Life: Takeaway really put its foot in it
“It’s a foot. Get over it. Call me back when you spot waiters swilling their bits in a collander.”
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– March 13, 2014
Snapshots of American Dentistry-Mar. 3
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– March 12, 2014
Jean Kerr
“I’m tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That’s deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?”
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– March 12, 2014
Reasons for failures of oral implants
This study reviews the literature regarding the factors contributing to failures of dental implants. An electronic search was undertaken including papers from 2004 onwards. The titles and abstracts from these results were read to identify studies within the selection criteria. All reference lists of the selected studies were then hand?searched, this time without time restrictions. A narrative review discussed some findings from the first two parts where separate data from non?comparative studies may have indicated conclusions different from those possible to draw in the systematic analysis. It may be suggested that the following situations are correlated to increase the implant failure rate: a low insertion torque of implants that are planned to be immediately or early loaded, inexperi…
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– March 12, 2014
