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'During a typical day, a dentist professional will employ numerous specialized materials, each with its purpose, and often a unique application technique as well. You not only need to know [...]

In many parts of the US, spring came early this year, with warmer temperatures and occasionally volatile storms arriving in February and March. But even in the years when it [...]

'While some people live by the motto 'Don't sweat the small stuff,' that is not a luxury afforded to those in the world of dentistry. In the oral cavity everything [...]

'Artisans spend their lifetimes perfecting a craft. In some cases, it is a simple process with the goal of repeated perfection. Many restorative dentists truly are artisans who hone their [...]

'The start of the new year is a traditional time of goal setting. Whether it is a personal New Year's resolution or an annual business goal, there is something freeing [...]

'For the generation of dentists entering the industry today, the ability to access information and people from around the world almost instantaneously has existed throughout their lives. But for everyone [...]

Failure. It's a word that can send shivers down our spines and make our hearts race. It's a word we often try to avoid, and for good reason. Failure can [...]

'It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today.'--Isaac Asimov wrote in the essay collection, Asimov on Science Fiction. In the case of this [...]

DENTISTRY IS MANY THINGS, but rarely is it easy. Dentists and their teams must display a wide range of skills to manage their patients' wide range of clinical conditions and [...]

'IF IT AIN'T BROKE, don't fix it.' The old adage makes sense when considering whether to change something that's working well. Why do away with a system or routine that [...]

THERE'S NO QUESTION artificial intelligence (AI) is the buzz phrase in dentistry right now. Dental AI software is everywhere from diagnostics to marketing to practice management to insurance reviews and [...]

WHETHER IN YOUR dental practice or during your personal time, it is very likely that much of your day is spent in busy environments with numerous sources of light, flashing [...]

LIKE MANY THINGS SUPPLANTED by a superior innovation, paper calendars are less common today than in the past. Using a cloud-based, interactive system to manage not just schedules, but also [...]

No matter how busy or complicated life becomes, science news can occasionally stop us in our tracks. Science news can be just so weird, or weirdly useful, that everything else [...]

THE END OF THE YEAR is packed with tradition and celebration. For many, it is the perfect time for reflecting on the past and envisioning the future. This is true [...]

IT'S NO SECRET that dentists are not among patients' favorite medical professionals. Sure, patients say they trust their dentists to care for any oral emergency that might arise, but they [...]

DENTISTRY CALLS FOR CONSTANT BALANCING of micro and macro concerns. Each patient may require a unique clinical solution focusing on minute details specific to that case. Of course, running a [...]

WELCOME TO THE FAMILY ISSUE of Dental Products Report[R]. This issue's cover story is dedicated to all the ways family relationships play a role in the dental industry. Family is [...]

TAKE A MOMENT and imagine living in the world 100 years ago, and then 100 years before that. How different would your daily life be in each of those times [...]

SOMETIMES, FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE, the little things make the biggest difference. The Butterfly Effect may not be based on real science, but the idea of an insect flapping [...]

WHETHER YOU ARE running a single-doctor practice, a nationwide group of dental offices, or an international business, if you are doing it successfully, you are likely also pursuing a process [...]

POKING YOUR HEAD up every so often to look around and reassess where you are and where you're headed is a good idea. No matter how much work you're doing [...]

A DENTAL PRACTICE is many things. First and foremost, it is an important health care provider for every patient who walks through the door. It is also a business, an [...]

WAS IT NATURAL ZOONOTIC spillover that catapulted SARS-CoV-2 from an emerging virus into a pandemic pathogen or was it something much more sinister? Is it at all possible that a [...]

WE LIVE IN A fast-paced world filled with individuals who move fast, talk fast, and expect things to be as fast as they are. The quickening pace of seemingly everything [...]

IN THE PARABLE OF THE BLIND men and the elephant, a trio of blind sages encountered an elephant, and without the aid of sight, they each described the animal by [...]

IT CAN BE EASY TO FEEL LIKE you're stuck in a loop as the days cycle between work routines, home routines, and the routines of getting back and forth between [...]

AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF 2020, if someone asked people to predict what the world would be like 16 months into the future, few might have predicted the impacts and [...]

SINCE THE BEGINNING of the era of modern medicine, dentistry has been held apart from other medical specialties. This may be because fixing and replacing teeth can seem more mechanical [...]

NINE MONTHS. In March 2020, the United States was in the early stages of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We shut down the entire country and economy--including nonemergency care [...]

THE START OF A NEW YEAR OFTEN equates to a fresh start with a clean slate. It's a time to set new goals--both personal and professional--and a great jumping-off point [...]

NO ONE KNOWS WHAT will happen tomorrow or the next day or several months down the road. But we all plan for the future. We all have expectations, hopes, and [...]

A FAMOUS LINE FROM A SCOTTISH poem translates to 'The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry.' This certainly rings as true today just as it must have [...]

LABOR DAY MARKS the unofficial end of Summer, and thus the start of fall. In most years this means back to school for children and return to the busy times [...]

THE SPRING OF 2020 IS ONE NO one in dentistry is ever going to forget, even though I imagine most of us would like to chuck it in the bin [...]

THE PAST FEW MONTHS have been a time unlike any other for just about everyone, but for healthcare professionals it's been a whirl of drastic changes, rapidly evolving directives, and [...]

THESE ARE CERTAINLY UNPRECEDENTED TIMES. The world is facing major personal and financial impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, which has already shuttered numerous businesses and forced many people in major [...]

THERE'S SOMETHING SATISFYING about puzzle pieces fitting together. When things connect and slide perfectly into their place there's a sense of a job well done, and things being properly aligned. [...]

MANY CREDIT ANCIENT GREEK philosopher Heraclitus of Ephesus with defining the idea that change is the only constant in this world. He laid out this philosophical concept some 2,500 years [...]

ONE YEAR AGO AT THIS TIME both Dental Products Report and MJH Life Sciences looked drastically different. 2019 turned out to be a year of transition and improvement for both [...]

KEEPING UP WITH THE PACE AT which new technologies, products and services are changing the way you practice dentistry and the way you run your dental practice is a constant [...]

NEW JERSEY'S economy is on the brink. Our property taxes and health insurance costs are the highest in the nation, the sales tax was increased just last year, and the [...]