Dental Products Report-2011-09-01

Dentistry has always been a profession that keeps us in fairly close proximity to our patients. We’re constantly working in their personal space, doing something the patient cannot see and working in a manner that doesn’t allow them to talk to us. I think that’s probably why many patients feel stressed about dentistry.

Operating a solo dental practice in Lincolnwood, Ill., Sheri Doniger somehow also finds time to squeeze in numerous other duties including serving on a local school board and the police and fire commission in her hometown. And that’s not all she does. She is editor of the Chronicle, an online newsletter offered by the American Association of Women Dentists and writes a column for drbicuspid.com.

When Renata Budny was a girl she liked to paint and sculpt-talents that she turned into a successful career in dental technology. She met a dental technician through her dentist who suggested she look into it.

Colleen Brickle believes everyone-no matter their financial status or whether they have insurance-deserves access to dental care services. In support of that belief, in 2005 she co-founded a community dental health clinic at Normandale Community College in Bloomingdale, Minn.

Ann Schmitt’s family history in the dental industry goes back four generations. She grew up playing with waxes and plasters as soon as she could reach the bench in her father’s dental laboratory, Schmitt Dental Lab in Saginaw, Mich.

Colonel Priscilla Hamilton is commander of DENCOM, the U.S. Army’s dental care system, which she likens to overseeing a large dental group practice that employs more than 5,000 dentists, hygienists and dental assistants globally.

Everything in the U.S. was new for Ashifa Nurani when she immigrated from Kenya when she was just 17-years-old.

The Implant Guidance System is the only commercially available system to allow you a snapshot view while still at the initial 2 mm pilot osteotomy. This allows the clinician to change, correct or adjust final position prior to drilling the final osteotomy.

The age old question: Do you want to be successful beyond your wildest dreams? The unlikely solution: Incorporate play into every day. Kevin Carroll, author of The Red Rubber Ball at Work, said play is as critical to success and happiness as any other factor.

As practice administrator for 25 years with Konikoff Dental Associates Inc., Pauline Heath loves that the field of dentistry is much more than just dentistry.  

As executive vice president and co-owner of Knight Dental Group, one of the largest labs in the U.S., Barbara Warner Wojdan has focused diligently on attaining the professional expertise necessary to help dentists achieve their goals.

With no water there would be no dentistry as we currently know it. Even if it might be just a small spritz, water plays an important part of just about every procedure a dentist or hygienist might perform.