Category: ODA Today

The annual ODA Foundation raffle is one of the primary sources of funding for oral health-related grants and scholarships. Raffle tickets are $100 each, three for $250 or six for $500. A maximum of 700 tickets will be sold. This year’s first place prize is $10,000 cash. The second place prize is 2026 tripartite membership dues paid or the ... [continue reading]

The Ohio Dental Association Jobs & Ads Board makes it easy to find and post job listings and other advertisements. Dentists looking for an associateship position, to buy a practice, to purchase equipment, or rent space can find listings on our Jobs & Ads Board. To view our Jobs & Ads Board, visit www.oda.org/jobs-ads/. Ads are ... [continue reading]

The ODA Services Corp. whitening gel discount program offers: Carbamide peroxide whitening gel formulated with a 100-percent-pure formula Only kosher USP glycerin and USP-grade carbamide peroxide. Gel is available in 16%, 22%, and 35% strengths. Additional discount applies to orders of 200+ syringes. With a minimum order of 50 ... [continue reading]

This month’s article highlights one of the greatest pleasures and blessings that I have gotten to experience in this leadership role. That is, interacting with those on the front end of this great profession. What appears below is the text of my remarks to the incoming dental and dental hygiene students during the OSU College of Dentistry White ... [continue reading]

Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court decided a case that received a great deal of attention because it tangentially involved so-called “birthright citizenship.” In reality, the main issue in the case involved the use of universal injunctions by federal district courts. One legal commenter defines a “universal injunction” as a court order ... [continue reading]

As usual with this section of the “ODA Today” I try to keep information up to date and answer questions that I have been seeing throughout the state from members. This month is no different and a topic that I have not written on before but has been a question I have been asked several times over the last month. That question is “what should ... [continue reading]

Despite the best efforts of all involved, insurance companies and other third-party payers mistakenly issue payments to dentists that they later determine should not have been made in the first place. This practice happens enough that the American Dental Association has listed overpayment recovery/refund requests in its list of top 10 concerns ... [continue reading]

Every morning, we put on our scrubs, adjust our loupes, and step into our operatories. What we’re really doing is donning our superhero costume and entering our Fortress of Solitude – or perhaps our Batcave. After nearly four decades of practice and countless conversations with colleagues across Ohio, I’ve come to realize that we dentists ... [continue reading]

I’ve lived in Ohio my whole life. I attended public school in rural Ohio, the University of Toledo for college and The Ohio State University for all my dental training.  Like many, I have also been around the world – to Hawaii and Hong Kong, Alaska and Zurich. But I have never been to Iowa. My professional life and education have been ... [continue reading]

New this year, the ODA Annual Session will feature a special two-day workshop presented by the Pankey Institute. “Occlusion in Everyday Dentistry: A Two-Day Pankey Workshop” ... [continue reading]