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Dr. Adam Barefoot DMD, MPH, has joined the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) as the agency’s Chief Dental Officer (CDO).

AGD wants to help practice owners stay on top by providing special discounts on a variety of insurance and financial services and practice management products to meet the needs of your business. Don’t miss any of the offers you get through AGD membership.

The reason that most people avoid conflict is that they don’t know how to navigate it successfully. AGD columnists Ivy D. Peltz, DDS, MSEd, PhD, MAGD, and Eric S. Studley, DDS, identify eight easy steps to help you deal with conflict.

A patient presented with severe darkening of an endodontically treated maxillary left central incisor. The tooth had sound structure, so the placement of a conservative direct composite resin veneer with opacifying pigments was proposed to restore form, function and esthetics. See the five-year follow-up details in this new case report.

AGD fact sheets provide your patients with all of the information they need to maintain their oral health. Fact sheets on more than 25 oral health topics are available for downloading online and can be customized to include your name and practice information.

The AGD Foundation is seeking donated auction items for its 2022 Electronic Silent Auction Fundraiser to be held during AGD2022. The fundraiser supports oral and oropharyngeal cancer efforts, including free screenings, awareness programs and educational resources.

This month, an estimated 6,500 dental students will graduate in the United States and begin their next steps toward successful careers in dentistry. At this moment, they are considering many options and exploring important decisions that impact their personal and professional lives.

Discussing nutrition with patients may feel like you’re blurring the lines between dentistry and dietetics, but it could provide a clear pathway toward integrating dentistry as a crucial component of whole-body healthcare.

The AGD2022 Virtual Package will allow you to earn up to 24 credit hours across eight lectures that will be livestreamed directly from AGD2022, July 27–30. The virtual package also includes a livestream of Walter Bond’s keynote address.

AGD2022 is offering dental team-focused courses within a wide variety of subjects to help your staff reach its full potential.

If you’re a new graduate, hopefully you’ve already enrolled in the complimentary malpractice insurance from our Exclusive Benefits provider Dentist’s Advantage. So, why not take the next step and recommend it to your fellow graduates? The coverage lasts from the day of enrollment through April 30, 2023.

AGD is working to address the most pressing issues faced by our members as we advocate to government entities for general dentists.

Last month, Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra issued notice establishing the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) under the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The AGD joined 64 other health and community organizations in letters to House and Senate appropriators urging their respective committees to increase fiscal year 2023 funding for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Office on Smoking and Health (OSH) by $68.5 million for a total of $310 million.

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued a final rule revising the quality standard for the amount of manufacture-added fluoride permitted in bottled water from 0.8 mg/L ppm to 0.7 mg/L ppm.

AGD filed a comment with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) on its interim final Emergency Temporary Standard, “Occupational Exposure to COVID-19 in Healthcare Settings.” AGD recommended withdrawing the interim rule, as there was not a scientific foundation to support the rule going into final status.

Intraoral scanners have many benefits for dental practices. They have been found to reduce patient discomfort, simplify clinical procedures for dentists and create accurate measurements. With more than half of dentists now using this technology, it’s never been a better time to check it out and invest.

Paresthesias are rare but potentially serious adverse effects following the use of articaine for inferior alveolar block injections. In a new column in General Dentistry, Drs. Saraghi and Hersh discuss the drug’s pharmacological properties, review its indications and efficacy and compare formulations.

We’re giving nonmembers a chance to try AGD before joining by making the May 12 webinar available to them for FREE. Share with your colleagues, and earn $50 in Referral Rewards for each one who joins!

Understanding why patients reject treatment is an important concept in increasing the average production per patient and the average complexity of cases treated. This article looks at five reasons why patients reject treatment and offers suggestions to improve your level of case acceptance and practice production.