Under all of your academic and clinical training there is something else, something deeper I am calling your philosophy. Are you in touch with it? How might this affect patient care?

The title says it pretty well.

What is the message behind wearing masks in public, especially if you are a healthcare worker?

This is the best technical explanation of how this virus works as well as how vaccinations work. I have produced this in order to enable people to listen to the explanation rather than attempt to read it if they are not familiar with the scientific jargon.

Important information. I hope you listen and pass it on, especially to those you know in healthcare.

https://www.zerohedge.com/covid-19/damn-you-hell-you-will-not-destroy-america-here-spartacus-covid-letter-thats-gone-viral

I just learned through an email notification by the American Dental Association that the U.S. Congress has advanced a budget resolution which includes a provision to expand the Medicare program to include dental benefits.

https://www.ada.org/~/media/ADA/Advocacy/Files/FAQ_medicare_dentalbenefit.pdf

https://www.ada.org/en/advocacy/getinvolved/legislative-action-center

There are two types of leaders just as there are two types of healthcare systems.

Does wearing face masks stop or reduce the spread of viral infections -- and what does this have to do with leadership?

My eight tips cover the following topics.

1. How to remove hard calculus.

2. How sharp do hand instruments need to be.

3. How many hand instruments do you need to perform scaling and root planing.

4. Lip and cheek retraction.

5. Local anesthesia.

6. Suturing.

7. Marketing.

8. Conflict management and recovery.

There is a lot of bad news out there. We are swimming in it. And if you just step back a little and study it, I think you will agree with me that some of it is gaslighting.

Three famous psychology studies:

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-asch-conformity-experiments-2794996

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-milgram-obedience-experiment-2795243

https://www.verywellmind.com/the-stanford-prison-experiment-2794995

One interesting current video you might want to check out:

https://rumble.com/vk894g-dr-michael-yeadon-a-final-warning-to-humanity.html

In the July edition of the Journal of the American Dental Association (JADA) there is an article of the same title.

My interest in discussing this article has to do with whether or not we should be doing rapid COVID-19 testing in our dental offices. If so, what should we expect will be the benefit to our patients?

Here are the links to two articles discussed. Both are written by the same three authors with one placed in the Journal of Clinical Medicine https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/10/6/1158

and the other in JADA https://jada.ada.org/article/S0002-8177(21)00276-2/fulltext

So now, for the next few minutes, permit me to give you my take on what interdisciplinary treatment planning is – and why it is critical for dentists, especially the newly graduated. It is my biggest tool to tackling complexity in dentistry and reducing risk.