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     I have received a significant amount of positive feedback related to my recent series of columns on the U.S. Supreme Court’s consideration of the legal challenges to President Barack Obama’s health care reform law.  This month, I continue to discuss issues related to this potentially landmark case that ... [continue reading]

     I spent most of this week dealing with the media fallout from the release of the Yale University study on dental radiographs and brain tumors.  Where I was talking to reporters, we all will be explaining things to our patients for quite a while.  My task as an ADA spokesperson is to put a story like this in ... [continue reading]

     One day a man was walking along the beach when he noticed a boy picking something up and gently throwing it into the ocean. Approaching the boy, he asked, “What are you doing?”      The youth replied, “I’m throwing starfish back into the ocean. The surf is up and the tide is ... [continue reading]

     A recent study found an increase in the number of patients seeking dental care in emergency rooms.      Preventable dental problems were the primary diagnosis in an estimated 830,590 ER visits nationwide in 2009, which is a 16 percent increase from 2006, according to research by the Pew Center on the ... [continue reading]

     Back by popular demand: your Ohio Dental Association and Bank of America Practice Solutions will help you through the process on Friday, April 27, 2012. You will discover the keys to:      • Starting your first office.      • Expanding or relocating your current ... [continue reading]

     Problem employees can disrupt any business, but they have potential to do significant damage to small businesses.  This is particularly true in dental offices, where employees work closely with the public and in close proximity to other staff members.  One of the most difficult issues a dentist must handle as a ... [continue reading]

     As you know, it is an important time to be a member of organized dentistry. As I travel the state in my capacity as ODA president, talking to various local dental societies and other dental groups, I like to ask my colleagues a series of questions that revolve around what our profession would look like if the ODA did not ... [continue reading]

     Last month, the ODA Today featured a forum on the main issue in the case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, known to some as “Obamacare.” We featured competing columns discussing whether the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution authorized ... [continue reading]

     As many of you know, I read extensively outside of dentistry.  I try to see what is going on in the world of business and attempt to find parallels to the practice of dentistry.  Respected marketing guru Seth Godin was blogging recently about what he called “Information Density.”  From a ... [continue reading]

     “Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.” Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. (1841 - 1935) Actually, they’re not the only ones.      Ok, this month, for better or worse, I’m taking off the non-latex rubber gloves and putting on the legal, boxing ones. (And, as my ... [continue reading]