It’s the time of year again when millions of children (and adults) eat a bit too much candy in a very short period of time. Not to scare you, but your dentist knows what you’re up to!
In honour of Healthy Workplace Month (October), the CDA has partnered with MHCC to promote CDA’s The Working Mind: Workplace Mental Health & Wellness for Oral Health Care Professionals course.
For Alero Boyo, convocation this year meant tying a bow on 17 years of university education. Her most recent degree, a combined Doctor of Medicine/Master of Science in Oral Maxillofacial Surgery from Dalhousie University, accounts for the final six years.
Volunteering with the NSDA can be a valuable way to connect with peers, stay in-tune with the profession, and give back to the field of dentistry in Nova Scotia. NSDA volunteers, and their important contributions, are among the way the organization fulfills its mission of ‘dentists helping dentists.’
For those of us who are light sleepers or have insomnia induced by anxiety, stress, and worry, creating a nighttime ritual can help calm the nervous system and signal that it is time to get some much-needed rest.
Kim Mailman graduated in 1984 from Dalhousie School of Dentistry in Halifax. He had been practising 35 years when he decided it was time to move on and open the next chapter. He has fond memories when looking back at his studies, describing Friday nights at the Dental House on Coburg Road as some very fun times.
