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Happy Halloween: more tricks, less treats

As kids across the country are perfecting their Halloween costumes, dentists are brainstorming creative ways to cut candy consumption. In the United States, 600 million pounds of candy are sold each year. From Halloween to New Year’s Eve, the holiday season revolves around sweets, sending caries risk levels soaring. How can dentists help prevent dental caries, the most common chronic disease of childhood?

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The top 10 things I learned as an ASDA Chicago Extern

This summer, I was lucky to spend four weeks in Chicago as an ASDA Administrative Extern. While rotating through ASDA’s different departments, I saw firsthand the hard work required to manage an association of over 18,000 members. Here are a few of the things I learned along the way…

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ASDA Chicago Externs visit Hu-Friedy

Imagine an episode of “How it’s Made” for dental instruments. That’s exactly what we saw when we toured the Hu-Friedy manufacturing plant in Chicago on June 21. The tour, led by Errol Edwards, Hu-Friedy’s Manufacturing Team Leader, let us see first-hand the many stages of a dental instrument’s life, from its beginning as a rod of steel, to the final polishing and inspection.

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Beastie Boy loses battle with salivary gland cancer

Last week Adam Yauch, better known as MCA of the Beastie Boys, passed away at the young age of 47. In 2009, Yauch

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Coming soon: Dental Reality TV

2012 is shaping up to be a pretty exciting year. We have a lot to look forward to: the Olympics, Presidential elections, leap year, and possibly…a dental reality TV show!

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