By: Neo PositivityFDC 2026 Speaker In 2008, I was a single father raising two kids on my own. I was a police officer in what was statistically the most dangerous city in America. I have seen things most people only…
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By Jeffrey Lineberry, DDS The dental profession is a commitment to lifelong learning. After years of school and finally graduating, many dental professionals begin practicing in the "real world", where they quickly learn that what they learned in dental school…
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By Kevin R. Suzuki DMD, MS Ridge atrophy is well documented and dramatic. This is well illustrated in the prospective study by Schropp et al. which demonstrated changes of an edentulous site after tooth extraction over the period of a…
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By Dianne Watterson, MBA, RDH, GC-C When I became a dental hygienist in 1978, I did not foresee the “love affair” that loomed in my future, a love affair in treating periodontal disease. Nothing gives me more professional gratification than…
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