Table of Contents

Cover Story

• Has The Government Turned Its Back on Dentistry?
  
• The Legislative Impact on Dentistry for Aging Populations
  
• Minnesota - An Example of Oral Healthcare Reform
  

Practice Building

• Economic Recovery Not A Bitter Pill
  Roger P. Levin, DDS

Roundtable

• Whatever happened to treating periodontal disease?
  Robert A. Levine, DDS, Michael P. Rethman, DDS, MS, Francis G. Serio, DMD, MS, MBA

Lab Talk

• Veneer Case Selection Process
  James Fondriest, DDS, FICD, FACD, Matt Roberts, CDT

View Point

• Living 15 Minutes at a Time
  Lawrence A. Hamburg, DDS

Research & Application

• Human mandible bone defect repair by the grafting of dental pulp stem/progenitor cells and collagen sponge biocomplexes
  Howard E. Strassler, DDS
• Alveolar bone regeneration by transplantation of periodontal ligament stem cells and bone marrow stem cells in a canine peri-implant defect model: a pilot study
  Howard E. Strassler, DDS

Continuing Education

• Caries Risk Assessment for Children
  Ana Lucia Seminario, DDS, PhD, Joel H. Berg, DDS , MS

Esthetics

• Instant Orthodontics
  Ana Elashvili, DDS, MS, Gerald E. Denehy, DDS, MS

Focus On

• Oral Cancer Screening
  Lynn W. Solomon, DDS, MS

Clinical Briefs

• Revolutionizing Interproximal Enamel Reduction
  Jeff T. Blank, DMD
• Immediate Dentin Sealing (IDS)
  Michael J. Morgan, DDS, Douglas J. Brown DDS, FAGD, Byoung In Suh, PhD
• Complete Marginal Seating of Indirect Restorations
  Daniel S. Kim, DDS, John A. Rothchild, DDS
• Breaking the 'Generation' Gap
  Jeff T. Blank, DMD

Materials

• Professionally Dispensed Vital Tooth Bleaching
  Howard E. Strassler, DDS
• Buyer's Guide: Whitening
  

Tech Profiles

• NuTorque™ Programmable Electric Handpiece - DentalEZ Group
  
• Filtek™ Supreme Ultra Universal Restorative - 3M ESPE
  
• Griptab - Triodent
  
• Perio Tray® - Perio Protect, LLC
  

The "Insider" Interview

• An Interview with AMD LASERS, LLC