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5 November 2020
The country's peak dental body, the Australian Dental Association, said a complete revamp of the way dentistry for older Australians is funded is long overdue and critical to "turning the tide" on poor oral health.
21 August 2020
Pharmacists are the medication experts, but can they also become advocates to help improve poor oral health?
5 August 2020
"The results are in, and for gum disease and tooth decay, they're not good," says the ADA's Oral Health Promoter, Dr Mikaela Chinotti
30 July 2020
With Dental Health Week highlighting the need to cut sugar intake, ADA President Dr Carmelo Bonanno points to huge savings to health budgets if government ramps up messaging on the health benefits of cutting sugar.
5 May 2020
Tonight on SBS at 8.30pm, "Insight", featuring ADA President Dr Carmelo Bonanno talks to people whose lives have been impacted by poor oral health and asks dentists what needs to be done to help them.
21 April 2020
The Australian Dental Association has welcomed the move, saying treatments including examinations, fillings and hand scaling will be possible.
20 April 2020
With dentists receiving little business but still facing high overheads, many dental practices across Australia have asked their banks for assistance, including deferrals on loan payments.
6 March 2020
The ADA says practices are facing closure as without surgical masks, dentists cannot treat patients safely, and has urged the Federal Government to intervene.
5 March 2020
Dentists across the country are running out of surgical masks and could soon be forced to close their practices, the Australian Dental Association has warned.
The Australian Dental Association said practices across the nation were expected to run out of masks within four weeks, because of the extraordinary demand brought on by COVID-19.
2 October 2020
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