Volume 8 • 2021 • Issue 5

DENTAL DIGEST D r. Jessica Latimer, a graduate periodontology resident at Harvard University, talked to CDA Oasis about how she uses Instagram, where she has over 13,000 followers, as a vehicle for sharing professionally related information and how her persona as @theperioartist was born. One piece of advice Dr. Latimer would give to aspiring users of Instagram for educational purposes is to decide on a brand and differentiate yourself as a quality knowledge sharer. She works to appeal to different types of learners with her posts. Particularly gratifying for her is that younger colleagues have reached out to her and thanked her for being an inspiring role model. Dr. Latimer cites Dr. Thomas Nguyen of McGill University for his inspirational and mentorship role in Instagram as a Teaching Tool Dr. Jeff Williams: New Chair of CDSPI D r. Jeff Williams is the new chair of the Board of Directors of CDSPI. Dr. Williams talked to CDA Oasis about what makes CDSPI unique in the insurance and investment marketplace. Dr. Williams emphasized how CDSPI listens to Canadian dentists and understands their needs. A dentist advisory panel at CDSPI is an important mechanism for communicating the needs, priorities, and preferences of an increasingly diverse profession to CDSPI. The issues raised by the dentist advisory panel are communicated by senior management to the CDSPI Board, which is comprised of two dentists and five experienced business professionals with knowledge of the insurance, investment and information technology worlds. Learn more about CDSPI and what it offers to dentists, their family members, and members of dental teams at cdspi.com . Oral Health Information Available in Braille T he ManitobaDental Foundation and theCanadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) are working together to provide oral health information from Crest Oral-B to blind Canadians. “The document is much longer in Braille,” says Dr. Frank Hechter of the foundation. “It is also being made available coast to coast to coast in an audio format.” The Manitoba Dental Foundation was formed in 2015 to help serve unmet oral health care needs in Manitoba, and a national foundation was launched in 2016. “The foundation is a central hub for philanthropy to improve oral health,” says Dr. Hechter. “We are dentists coming together for the public good.” Watch the full conversation with Dr. Latimer on CDA Oasis at: bit.ly/3zaZkNv Learn more at manitobadentalfoundation.ca and on CDA Oasis: bit.ly/3BceOBO Watch the full conversation with Dr. Williams on CDA Oasis at: bit.ly/3mobuzh helping her choose her residency program and in highlighting the power of Instagram as a teaching medium. Dr. Jeff Williams 14 | 2021 | Issue 5