This year, at the Western Regional Dental Experience, the Arizona Dental Association was treated to two presentations by the ADA’s new Executive Director: Dr. Ray Cohlmia. Dr. Cohlmia hails from …
There’s nothing more exasperating than having to deal with bureaucracy! Bureaucrats are small-minded people that follow rules to the letter of the law and don’t know how to discriminate when …
I’ve always had a special relationship with laboratory technicians because of the way I was brought up in Dentistry. My story begins way before dental school. When I was a …
This week I attended a continuing education course at the dental association that was truly upsetting. The course took the form of a professionally designed video. As the course unfolded, …
According to the “Zen Gardner*,” the pursuit of truth is “what drives the heart of man and is the natural draw of every living soul. This is why youth are …
According to Wikipedia, a profession “can be defined as a disciplined group of individuals, professionals, who adhere to ethical standards and who hold themselves out as, and are accepted by …
Last week I attended the Voice of Dentistry Conference here in Scottsdale. The main focus of the conference was supposed to be podcasting, but all the lectures were devoted to …
This week we celebrate the life of Martin Luther King Jr. His stirring “I have a dream speech” echoes throughout the ages. That speech touched my very soul when I …
“First, do no harm.” Everyone knows that this is Hippocrates’ famous oath. Every health care worker should live and die by this oath. But how many actually do? It seems …
I always emphasize in any course how important it is to evaluate new technology through the lens of basic principles. The basic principles that I teach have an unmatchable track …