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A Preliminary Study Of Staff Meetings As Viewed By Dental Hygienists, David G. Dunning, Patrick Anderson, Daniel Ellingson

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

Staff meetings in general dental practices represent what is believed to be a key management strategy to build teams and to enhance ef-ficiency and effectiveness. However, very little research has been done regarding staff meetings in dental offices. This study examined staff meetings from the viewpoint of dental hygienists who grow in unique careers in that they work largely independently of the dentist and yet typically within a dental practice while providing patient care and education. One-hundred-six dental hygienists completed a sur- vey about staff meetings in dental offices. Key findings include: only approximately 43% of dental offices conduct morning …

Introduction To The Special Issue On Practice Management, David G. Dunning

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

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Associate To Owner Transition: When Should A Dental Practice Be Valued?, David G. Dunning

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

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A Dentigerous Cyst Associated With Bilaterally Impacted Mandibular Canines In A Girl: A Case Report., Shawneen M. Gonzalez, Peter M. Spalding, Jeffrey B. Payne, Peter J. Giannini

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

INTRODUCTION: A dentigerous cyst is the most common developmental odontogenic cyst and is frequently noted as an incidental finding on radiographs. The most common teeth affected are impacted mandibular third molars and permanent maxillary canines. This case involves a dentigerous cyst encompassing the right and left impacted mandibular canines and crossing the midline. This is, to the best of our knowledge, the first reported case of a dentigerous cyst encompassing non-adjacent teeth and crossing the midline.

CASE PRESENTATION: The patient presented to our orthodontic clinic for treatment of malocclusion. The patient was a 10-year, one-month-old Caucasian girl with a dentigerous …

Walking With Dental Students Through The Minefields Of Associateship Opportunities, David G. Dunning

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

The author reflects on the need of legal counsel for the dental students before signing any employment contract in a private dental practice firm. He states that the counsel can save both the students and owners from the problems which he called "mines". He further elaborate these "mines" which include lack of revenue or patients at the work place, compensation scheme causing too much profit for the owner and little or no discussion of the practice's value with the new associate.

Misdiagnosis Of Lateral Periodontal Cysts: A Retrospective Study, Piper Larson, John Huebner, Nagamani Narayana

Posters and Presentations: College of Dentistry

A total of 239 cases were retrieved from the files of the UNMC College of Dentistry oral biopsy service which had lateral periodontal cyst (LPC) as a clinical or a histological diagnosis. Of these, 178 were submitted with a clinical differential diagnosis that included LPC. Upon histological examination only 26 (11%) of those were in fact LPC. Only 21(9%) of the 51 cases diagnosed histologically met the criteria for LPC. Within those 239 cases, 120(50%) cases were inflammatory cysts, 31(13%) of the samples were determined to be keratocystic odontogenic tumors (odontogenic keratocysts). Conclusion: The LPC is frequently misdiagnosed due to …

Prerequisites In Behavioral Science And Business: Opportunities For Dental Education., David G. Dunning, Brian M. Lange, Robert D. Madden, Koko K. Tacha

Journal Articles: College of Dentistry

There is increasing pressure on recent dental school graduates to understand and successfully utilize patient management and business management strategies to run a productive dental office. Dental schools are faced with the dilemma to either add more credit hours in their already crowded curriculum or adjust predental school requirements. All fifty-nine U.S. dental schools were assessed online to determine admission requirements in the areas of behavioral science and business education. Results show that only 11.9 percent of the schools require prerequisite course work in behavioral science and no school requires prerequisite course work in business. However, 64.4 percent and 30.5 …