AGD’s “Three for Free” membership offer is back. Invite your colleagues to join for 2025, and they’ll get the rest of 2024 for free — that’s up to three months. Plus, you’ll earn $50 in Referral Rewards for each sign-up, perfect to put toward your renewal.

Calling all students, residents and new dentists! Join AGD Oct. 21 for “Dental Defense: Mastering Insurance, Malpractice and Student Loan Strategies for New Dentists,” where AGD benefit providers will be sharing insurance, malpractice and loan tips that all new dentists should know.

The October issue of AGD Impact is now live! This month, our cover story explains how compassion and empathy as parts of a modern model of providership can improve patient outcomes and reduce provider burnout. Additional content includes a look at frenectomy treatments, three firsthand accounts from AGD2024, how to convey your practice’s personality in your digital marketing, and a Member Spotlight on Dr. Sam Asthana.

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

While it’s well known that jewelry can cause radiographic artifacts, a report in General Dentistry details a previously unreported type of anomaly produced when jewelry removal left a large soft tissue defect. The atypical radiolucency presented a diagnostic challenge until it was correlated with the piercing defect.