ADA political spending pays off; do women feel more pain?

Dear DrBicuspid Member,

The ADA's political contributions have spiked in the five years since the healthcare reform debate emerged on the U.S. scene.

In fact, since 1999 the ADA and its state affiliates have spent nearly $40 million on lobbying and campaign contributions, making it one of the top 100 donors between 1989 and 2012, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.

Click here to read more about ADPAC, the ADA's political action committee, and what the association earmarks with its lobbying and campaign efforts.

In other dental news, a supervisor appointed to head the College of Denturists of Ontario is moving quickly to repair relations with denturists and denturism students, and increase the fairness of qualifying exams. Read more.

And over in the Hygiene Community, do women actually experience more pain than men? Gender-based anatomical, physiological, and hormonal differences may help to explain why women are more sensitive to pain and suffer more chronic orofacial pain, according to a new clinical review in the Journal of the American Dental Association.