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Today's dental marketplace is increasingly competitive, driving dentists to seek out new ways to market their practices and attract new patients. However, there are several legal and regulatory restrictions on dental marketing that dentists must consider before engaging in a new advertising campaign. State regulations and the profession’s ... [continue reading]

In late August, Dr. Manny Chopra, chairman of Ohio Dental Association Council on Dental Care Programs and Dental Practice, canceled a day's worth of patient appointments to travel with me to Okemos, Michigan to meet with the upper management of Delta Dental of Michigan, Ohio, and Indiana regarding Delta's response to the Center for Medicare and ... [continue reading]

Dr. Matthew Messina and his staff celebrate with John Ponstingl. John Ponstingl was a wiry old guy, slight of build with wispy white hair.  Always impeccably dressed, slacks and sweater vest, even if it was a warm summer day.  Sparkling eyes with a hint of laughter.  He was an engineer by trade, working for years at NASA; his career ... [continue reading]

I just came back from a dental conference in Orlando with mixed feelings. On the one hand I felt very excited about the future of dentistry, but on the other hand my husband and I felt a little “over the hill.” When I first finished my endodontic residency in 2002, my husband and I looked up to the folks that were in their mid-40s who ... [continue reading]

Time passes and memories fade. Since this is the 150th year of the Ohio Dental Association, I decided to visit the central office and look up the proceedings of the House of Delegates for 1966. While the HOD is not the entire meeting, it serves to document what activities took place. Dr. Harold Barlow of Akron was the president and presided over ... [continue reading]

I think the old saw is something like this: “Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence.” The absence of data supporting the health benefits of flossing from longitudinal, multi-center, multi-populational, randomized controlled studies doesn’t mean flossing has no benefits.  It just means those complex, very ... [continue reading]

A call for nominations is now extended for a dentist board member position on the Ohio State Dental Board. The Ohio Dental Association has the opportunity to recommend nominees to the governor of Ohio for one possible dentist board member opening on the Ohio State Dental Board (OSDB), which may be vacant in April 2017. The board member position is ... [continue reading]

The ODA Foundation held its annual raffle drawing at the ODA Annual Session on Sept. 17. The Foundation sold all 700 raffle tickets that were available this year. Dr. Jim Cottle was the first prize winner with a choice of the Crown Mercedes Dublin GLC300 car lease or $20,000 cash; Dr. Kevin Laing won the second prize jewelry worth $3,000 and Dr. ... [continue reading]

The Ohio State Dental Board is no longer accepting paper applications for any license type. All applicants will now be required to apply and manage their license through a new online licensing portal at ... [continue reading]

Obtain CE credit verification and download handouts for courses attended at the 2016 ODA Annual Session by clicking here. CE credit verification from the 2015 ODA Annual Sesssion can be found here. Email suzy@oda.org with any questions about accessing CE ... [continue reading]