Archive for August, 2024

Welcoming New COSDI Doctors: Chris Bulcher, Dillon Feigenbaum

What do south-central Idaho and New York’s Long Island have in common? Each was the original home of an oral surgeon who will bring his talents to the Center for Oral Surgery and Dental Implants (COSDI) in the summer of 2024. That’s when Long Islander Dillon Feigenbaum, DDS, MD, and Idahoan Christopher Bulcher, DMD, MD, […]

How To Help Patients Find Information They Can Trust

“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble,” Mark Twain supposedly said. “It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so.” Medical and dental professionals today face a patient population better armed with health care information than ever before—and that’s a good thing. The more people know, the more they can […]

An Ingredient in Toothpaste Can Cause Unwanted Effects

Patients may or may not be familiar with sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS), but dentists know it as a surfactant—the sodium salt of lauryl alcohol—used in toothpastes and mouthwashes as well as some foods and household cleaning products. SLS aids solubility and thus appears to help facilitate plaque control and the cleaning of teeth. It also […]

Seeing More Oral Lichen Planus?

The coronavirus pandemic that gripped the nation for roughly two years starting in March 2020 changed everyone’s lives, and oral health care providers didn’t escape. Yes, they returned very quickly to their offices to treat patients in person while other professionals embraced remote work. But some things had changed, and research now suggests that one […]