ADA News

New Orleans—Dentists planning a trip to the ADA Annual Session Oct. 31-Nov. 3 can use the meeting as an opportunity that can benefit the entire office team.

Salisbury, Md.—Since its first Mission of Mercy charitable dental clinic in October 2010, Maryland dentists and supporters in communities statewide have built a solid program that will include regional MOM events each year to meet the needs of uninsured and underinsured adults who have little access to dental care and often seek treatment in emergency rooms.

Technology has broadened the ways that consumers pay for all kinds of goods and services. Dental practices can manage patients' expectations to this end with Chase Paymentech, the only ADA Business Resources endorsed provider of credit card processing services.

Would you like to photocopy, adapt or reprint materials from the National Maternal and Child Oral Health Resource Center?

The ADA Council on Dental Education and Licensure and its Continuing Education Recognition Program Committee are considering a proposal to restructure ADA CERP as an agency separate from the council to better support the program's mission and minimize the potential for conflicts of interest.

The ADA Standards Committee on Dental Informatics is recruiting volunteers for five new work projects.

In 1913, a group of 29 dentists from Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia formed what was known originally as the Tri-State Dental Association.

New Orleans—As summer settles in, it’s an opportune time to mark calendars for the 2013 ADA Foundation Give Kids A Smile Gala, taking place here this fall.

Washington—The Association thanked Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) for offering "important oral health provisions" in legislation to reauthorize the landmark Older Americans Act.

Little evidence supports twice yearly dental preventive care visits for all adults, and frequency of patient visits should be based on personalized medicine that also accounts for genetics, according to a University of Michigan study published June 10 in the Journal of Dental Research.