Jay W. Friedman, DDS, MPHeditorial@drbicuspid.comDental EducationChildren's school-based dental: An imperative priorityA basic tenet of a just society is that children, because they are least able to help themselves, be given priority for healthcare. In this Second Opinion, Dr. Jay W. Friedman advocates that as poor and minority children have the most oral disease, they should be given the highest priority for allocating oral healthcare resources.December 21, 2015Practice TrendsThe Virtual Dental Home: Complicating a good ideaIn this Second Opinion, Dr. Jay W. Friedman describes the benefits, and the complications, of the innovative Virtual Dental Home program that uses dental hygienists and remote supervising diagnostic dentists.July 15, 2014PeriodonticsIs the ADA's midlevel provider economic analysis fair?A series of reports on midlevel dental providers released Wednesday by the ADA concluded that this workforce model is not economically feasible or sustainable. But Dr. Jay Friedman believes the ADA's analysis was flawed.July 25, 2012Dental EducationIs the ADHA midlevel provider model fair to hygienists?The need to adequately address oral healthcare disparities in the U.S. through new workforce considerations is inarguable. But is the advanced dental hygienist practitioner model proposed by the American Dental Hygienists Association (ADHA) the right approach?April 5, 2012PediatricsTime to give thumb suckers a breakDespite few studies documenting the actual effects of prolonged thumb sucking on malocclusion, parents and dentists for years have been determined to curtail the habit with methods that can often be traumatic for children. What's all the fuss really about?March 30, 2010HomeProphylactic third-molar extractions: The risks outweigh the benefitsWriting in response to Dr. Helaine Smith's recent column on third-molar extractions, Dr. Jay Friedman argues that dentists should use scientific, not anecdotal, evidence before deciding to remove wisdom teeth.April 19, 2009Page 1 of 1Top StoriesLegal IssuesDentist files antitrust lawsuit against insurersA dentist filed on March 31 a U.S. antitrust lawsuit against multiple insurers, including Zelis Healthcare and UnitedHealth Group.Imaging & CAD/CAMPatients don't like what they see on their intraoral scansImaging & CAD/CAMImaging aids in removing aspirated drill head from patientImaging & CAD/CAMAI may be better at this than orthodontistsImaging & CAD/CAMCase #787: 32-year-old woman with lesion on the left mandible
