The WHO Puts Periodontal Disease On Hold

<p><strong>Episode 3 Highlights</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Emergency Board Meeting of the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">World Health Organization Statement</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Effects of COVID-19 for those with Periodontal Disease</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Kansas: Assistants scaling below the gum line</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">Chicago MidWinter goes virtual for 2021</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>Quotes</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">  </span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“You should probably know if your State Dental Board is active or not” </span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“COVID gives providers more opportunity to have conversations about the Oral Systemic Link”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“We can’t be afraid as an industry to say ’this is what you need to know and why’”</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">“Covid has been the best excuse for the dental industry: - use it to set up great systems!</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">“If you are an assistant, or dentist listening to this, you should know that</span> <a href="https://www.danb.org/"><span style= "font-weight: 400;">https://www.danb.org</span></a> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">is an important resource”</span></li> </ul> <p> </p> <p><strong>Links</strong></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Texas State Board decisions: </span></p> <p><a href= "https://texreg.sos.state.tx.us/public/regviewer$ext.RegPage?sl=R&app=1&p_dir=&p_rloc=380950&p_tloc=&p_ploc=&pg=1&p_reg=380950&ti=22&pt=5&ch=108&rl=7&issue=09/04/2020&z_chk="> <span style= "font