Are Dentists at Risk From the Epsilon E-Mail Hack?

On March 30th, in what is being touted on the Internet as one of the biggest hacks to date, hackers stole thousands of email addresses from the world’s largest permission-based e-mail marketer Epsilon. Businesses such as JP Morgan Chase use Epsilon to send promotional emails or newsletters to their customers. The hackers gained entry into […]

April is oral cancer awareness month. Of course, dentists are on the lookout for oral tongue squamous cell carcinoma 12 months a year. In an online report published March 7 in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, the authors found an alarming trend: incidences of oral tongue cancer climbed 111% in young white females. For the […]

When asked if their dental practice has been affected by consumer review website Yelp.com, dentists were divided between feeling that Yelp is good for their practice, Yelp has caused problems for their practice, and being unsure if Yelp was having an effect on their practice. Yelp.com is a social networking, user review, and local search […]

Case Western Reserve University School of Dental Medicine and the Cleveland Clinic say that menopausal women may need to see the dentist as many as four times a year to control dental plaque. Leena Palomo, an assistant professor of periodontics, and Maria Clarinda Beunocamino-Francisco from the Center for Specialized Women’s Health at the clinic completed […]