Best Practice citations

Volume 2, Issue 1

The Fluoride Debate: A century of dental health and controversy

1 https://www.reuters.com/world/us/what-is-fluoride-why-is-it-added-us-water-supply-2024-11-25/

2 https://adanews.ada.org/ada-news/2025/january/ada-reaffirms-commitment-to-community-water-fluoridation-amid-jama-pediatrics-report/#:~:text=%E2%80%9CTo%20prevent%20dental%20disease%2C%20the,%2C%20D.D.S.%2C%20in%20the%20release

3 https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00056796.htm

Simple solutions for complex problems?

1 https://www.csis.org/blogs/perspectives-innovation/us-should-strengthen-stem-education-remain-globally-competitive

2 https://ncses.nsf.gov/pubs/nsb20221/u-s-and-global-stem-education-and-labor-force.

3 https://www.ed.gov/news/press-releases/us-department-education-launches-new-initiative-enhance-stem-education-all-students.

4 Research argues that Occam’s razor is an ‘essential factor that distinguishes science from superstition https://phys.org/news/2023-12-occam-razor-essential-factor-distinguishes.html.

5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Science.

6 J McFadden, Razor sharp: The role of Occam’s razor in science Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Volume1530, Issue1 December 2023 Pages 8-17.

7 https://conceptually.org/concepts/occams-razor.

8 Dickinson JA. Lesser-spotted zebras: Their care and feeding. Can Fam Physician. 2016 Aug;62(8):620-1.

9 The Routledge Dictionary of Modern American Slang and Unconventional English, Tom Dalzell, 2009, 1104 pages, p.595.

10 https://learningspy.co.uk/featured/seven-tools-thinking-5-occams-razor/#:~:text=Aristotle%20first%20suggested%20the%20idea,what%20is%20done%20with%20less’.

 

 

NOVEMBER 2024

The staffing shortage

1 https://www.ada.org/-/media/project/ada-organization/ada/ada-org/files/resources/research/hpi/dental_workforce_shortages_labor_market.pdf

2 https://www.ada.org/-/media/project/ada-organization/ada/ada-org/files/resources/research/hpi/oct2023_hpi_economic_outlook_dentistry_report_main.pdf?rev=29dc10340557404b9259b5e43852553a&hash=50D9A6A288F2CC9CDCC6B96F00C077E1

3 https://www.theadso.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/20240115_RTI_Report_Executive_Summary_v0222.pdf

Arginine and dental caries

1 Marcenes W, Kassebaum NJ, Bernabe E, et al. Global burden of oral conditions in 1990-2010: a systematic analysis. J Dent Res. 2013;92(7):592-597.

2 The Lancet. Oral health at a tipping point. Lancet. 2019:394(10194):188.

3 Kleinberg I. A mixed-bacteria ecological approach to understanding the role of the oral bacteria in dental caries causation: an alternative to Streptococcus mutans and the specific-plaque hypothesis. Crit Rev Oral Biol Med. 2002;13(2):108-125

4 Englander HR, Shklair IL, Fosdick LS. The effects of saliva on the pH and lactate concentration in dental plaques: I. Caries-rampant individuals. J Dent Res. 1959;38(5):848-853.

5  Marsh PD, Bradshaw DJ. Dental plaque as a biofilm. J Ind Microbiol. 1995;15(3):169-175

6 Fejerskov O, Nyvad B, Kidd EA: Pathology of dental caries; in Fejerskov O, Kidd EAM (eds): Dental caries: The disease and its clinical management. Oxford, Blackwell Munksgaard, 2008, vol 2, pp 20-48.

7 Zhu, M; Li, J; Chen, B; Mei, L; Yao, L; Tian, J; Li, H (2015). "The Effect of Calcium Sodium Phosphosilicate on Dentin Hypersensitivity: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis". PLOS ONE. 10 (11): e0140176.

8 Brunton, P.A.; Davies, R.P.W. (2 July 2013). "Treatment of early caries lesions using biomimetic self-assembling-peptides – a clinical safety trial". Br Dent J. 215

9 JADA Monograph ADA.org/arginine

10 https://bioetymology.blogspot.com/2012/03/arginin-arg-r.html

11 Nascimento MM, Browngardt C, Xiaohui X, Klepac-Ceraj V, Paster BJ, Burne RA. The effect of arginine on oral biofilm communities. Mol Oral Microbiol. 2014;29(1):45-54

12 Souza ML, Cury JA, Tenuta LM, et al. Comparing the efficacy of a dentifrice

containing 1.5% arginine and 1450 ppm fluoride to a dentifrice containing 1450 ppm fluoride alone in the management of primary root caries. J Dent. 2013;41 (suppl 2):S35-S41

13 Acevedo AM, Machado C, Rivera LE, Wolff M, Kleinberg I. The inhibitory effect of an arginine bicarbonate/calcium carbonate CaviStat-containing dentifrice on the development of dental caries in Venezuelan school children. J Clin Dent. 2005;16(3):63-70

14 Kleinberg I. A new saliva-based anticaries composition. Dent Today. 1999;18(2):98-103.

15 Zheng X, He J, Wang L, et al. Ecological effect of arginine on oral microbiota.

Sci Rep. 2017;7(1):7206

16 Kraivaphan P, Amornchat C, Triratana T, et al. Two-year caries clinical study of the efficacy of novel dentifrices containing 1.5% arginine, an insoluble calcium compound and 1,450 ppm fluoride. Caries Res. 2013;47(6):582-590

 

 

MAY 2024

Breaking barriers in dentistry

1 Kamyar Nasseh, Chelsea Fosse and Marko Vujicic, “Dentists Who Participate in Medicaid: Who They Are, Where They Locate, How They Practice,” Medical Care Research and Review 80, no. 2 (2022): 245-252.