Facebook saga continues; are dentists heeding ADA sealant advice?

Dear DrBicuspid Member,

The ongoing dispute between a pediatric dentist in Bakersfield, CA, and the angry dad who turned to Facebook to try and get the dentists' practice shut down took an interesting turn last week when Facebook suddenly pulled the plug on the dad's page.

But only hours later he had created another and reignited his campaign against the dentist he and several other parents in the Bakersfield area say mistreated their children during dental visits. Read more.

Meanwhile, in Restoratives Community news, most dentists are not heeding ADA's call to seal noncavitated carious lesions, according to a survey in the September Journal of the American Dental Association. What's the hold up?

And when a 52-year-old man in overall good health presented at New York University's School of Dentistry clinic with extreme enamel erosion that had occurred in a matter of months, it took a bevy of specialists to unravel the mystery. Click here to read how one faculty member discovered that the source of the patient's problem was in an exercise routine.

Finally, in our ongoing Leaders in Dentistry series, we talked to Dr. William Kohn, former head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's division of oral health and now vice president of dental science and policy at Delta Dental, to get his views on how healthcare reform will impact the dental benefits industry going forward.