A little toothpaste goes a long way
HERE’S a simple trick we’d all love to do to remove small scratches from your phone screen.
Rub that old reliable toothpaste wherever the scratches...
UV light for safe clinics
AS THE NATION turns into General Community Quarantine mode, more and more businesses and essential services will reopen.
Dental clinics will be among them and...
Children need special care
“TOO much, too soon would see us putting our patients and the profession at risk.”
The words of wisdom come from Dr. Claire Stevens, a...
A gradual start for dental clinics
PERHAPS we can get some ideas in other places where lockdown restrictions have been lifted.
In New Mexico, United States, many dental clinics remain closed...
Safer dental clinics
ON May 21, the American Dental Association (ADA) issued more detailed guidance on how to resume dental practices safely.
It offers insight that could well...
Infection control (Part 2)
IF THE column previous to this sounded like very drastic changes to the dental clinic and the dentist that we have been familiar with,...
Infection Control (Part 1)
DENTISTRY as we know it has drastically changed.
In this time of the coronavirus pandemic, the California Department of Public Health’s dental care directive is...
Toolkit for re-opening dental clinics
THE American Dental Association (ADA) has issued a Return to Work Interim Guidance Toolkit to help dentists return to more normal practice operations.
The toolkit,...
Where to seek dental treatment?
THIS IS a question that arises among many during the lockdowns: Where does one seek emergency dental treatment?
It would be in the Emergency Room...
Waiting for dental clinics to re-open
IT’S BEEN a couple of months since the lockdowns have been imposed in most of the country to prevent coronavirus transmissions.
While many provinces are...