When I was practicing dentistry, my team and I had to be diligently on the look-out for all possible risks of cross-contamination…

Just the other day, I was on Facebook catching up with family and friends, and could not help but notice four postings advertising the need for dental assistants — all posted within the span of a week. I checked in with a few colleagues and, sure enough, they confirmed there’s a shortage of dental assistants in the Ottawa area…

The life of an entrepreneur is never easy. You can set out on a path where you think you have all the expertise, only to run into major challenges.

Such was the case with the development of SmartChart™…

There are many reasons some patients do not agree to proceed with treatments recommended by dentists.

It could be financial. Maybe they’re not insured for some or all of the procedures…

Those of you who are not in the dental profession may not be familiar with the concept of “supervised neglect.” The holy grail of dental dictionaries, Mosby’s, defines it as a “case in which a patient is regularly examined and shows signs of a disease or other medical problems, but is not informed of its presence or progress.” …

A global dental distributor asked me a very interesting question recently. He pointed out that with dental drills, music, phones, TVs and voices blaring, dental clinics can be loud…

I was out and about last week talking as usual about WinTerra Dental’s new voice-activated 3D dental-charting system, SmartChart™, when I ran into a hygienist who was far from convinced.