Oh No… I Just Got Stuck – How to Manage an Exposure Incident
By: Leslie Canham, CDA, RDA, CSP Imagine you are working on a patient and as you reach for an instrument, you suddenly feel something sharp. You are bleeding and you realize that you just had an exposure incident! Do you know exactly what to do? When...
Dental Assistants: The Secret Weapon of a Dental Practice
By: Kevin Henry In my 20-plus years serving as the managing editor for Dental Economics, editor of DrBicuspid.com and group editorial director for Dental Products Report, I have seen a lot of great things accomplished by dental practices throughout the...
The Five Stats Every Dental Practice Should Monitor
By: Dayna Johnson When I say “monitor,” I don’t mean you write the numbers down on your spreadsheet, stick it in the three-ring binder and forget about it. I mean you are writing it down, talking about it with your team, and coming up with strategies as...
Specialization, Socialization and Freedom
By: Allen Vean, DDS We all remember our dental education days. Some of us are reminded of hard times, good times and friendships that have lasted our entire professional lives. Moments of learning when your brain finally realized the instructor was giving...
Building Community at RMDC Anywhere
By: Angelica Seto, DDS 2020 has been an extraordinary and challenging year. In the dental community, we have had to overcome an abnormal amount of adversity, but the shining light has been seeing everyone come together to pull through this most uncertain...
Advocacy, the Underserved and Our Future – A Student’s Perspective
By: Jakob Holtzmann Like many of you, I wasn’t around to witness the destruction brought upon the world in the 1940’s. Like some of you, I wasn’t around to witness the cultural and economic challenges of the 1970’s. But like all of you, I’m currently...
A Reflection on Practicing Dentistry for the First Americans
By: Adriana Zuniga, DDS From beneath my face shield and the multiple masks on my sweaty face, I still got a waft of the burning sage from down the hallway as I was prepping a crown. Burning sage is a common practice called smudging and American...
Feng Shui, What Happened?
By: Allen Vean, DDSAccording to the Spruce.com, Feng Shui is a practice of looking at our environments and how to live in harmony with the principles of the natural world. This comes from an ancient poem and reflects upon how human life can beideal if we...
An Early Start: Talking to Children About Diversity
By: Erin Issac, DMD "But are those healthy gums? Why do they look like that?” asked my 8-year-old patient as I showed him pictures in a chairside flipbook about oral health. We were discussing cavities, but besides seeing the cavities in one picture, my...
Rocky Mountain Dental Convention Goes Virtual
The Metro Denver Dental Society (MDDS) Announces 2021 RMDC Anywhere Virtual Convention After assessing the current landscape and surveying stakeholder groups, the Metro Denver Dental Society Board of Directors has decided to pivot and transform the 2021...
ABOUT MDDS
The Metro Denver Dental Society is a not-for-profit component society of the American Dental Association and the Colorado Dental Association.
