Dental Tribune U.S. Edition

• to demonstrate dentistry’s commitment to addressing access to care; • to enable volunteer dental teams across the country to pro- vide free dental care, screening, and education to children in need; and • to urge policymakers to increase funding for children’s oral health. In 2010, with the help of Care- Credit’s contribution, the ADA Foundation awarded grants to the Hispanic Dental Association (HDA), the National Dental Asso- ciation (NDA) and Oral Health America. The HDA is using its grant to fund local dental-student-led oral health programs in Los Angeles, San Antonio and Boston, to expand their mobile dental van program and participation in local health clinics. The NDA is enhancing the Deamonte Driver Dental Project, a memorial to a young boy who died from an infection in his brain that was caused by untreated dental decay, to reach more elementary schools and expand mobile dental van services. Oral Health America’s grant funds have been distributed to Smiles Across America sites in California, Minnesota and Nevada, which has enabled thousands of children to receive education, pre- ventive care and restorative ser- vices. “Dental disease among children is a serious issue in the United States. When a child has disease and pain, it makes it difficult for him or her to eat, sleep and learn. CareCredit became the found- ing donor of the American Dental Association Foundation Give Kids A Smile Fund to help increase children’s access to treatment throughout the year.” “Each year we are so impressed with how the grant recipients use the funds to reach out in their community,” stated Cindy Hearn, board member and senior vice president of marketing at CareC- redit. “The ADA Foundation and its Give Kids A Smile Fund greatly appreciate CareCredit’s continu- ing support. CareCredit’s generos- ity will play a key role in helping Give Kids A Smile achieve its goal of cavity-free kids by 2020,” stated Dr. David A. Whiston, president of the ADA Foundation. Today, CareCredit is offered in more than 86,000 enrolled den- tal practices. CareCredit is exclu- sively selected for their members by most state and national dental associations, and is also recom- mended by leading practice man- agement consultants. For more information on Care- Credit, call (800) 300-3046 ext. 4519 or visit www.carecredit.com/ dental. Information on Give Kids A Smile can be found at www.givekidsa smile.ada.org. DT DENTAL TRIBUNE | May 2011 Industry News 31A AD Nikon D7000 clinical camera package The Nikon D7000 fits into the Nikon lineup between the D90 and the D300s in regard to price and size, but beats both of them when it comes to features. The D7000 takes the resolution up to 16.2 megapixels (compared to the 12.3 mp resolution of the other two cameras) and adds full 1080p HD video capture (the D90 and D300s have 720p HD video). Nikon has also introduced User Modes (U1 and U2) on the D7000. This has been a popular feature on the Canon 40D, 50D and 60D. For clinical use, one can use the User Modes to pre-program the camera and simplify switching between protrait and clo- seup views. The User Modes are also nice in case someone changes settings on the camera. To get back to the proper settings, you simply turn the dial to another mode and then back to the User Mode and then all of the pre- programmed settings are restored. The D7000 has two SD memory card slots, and you can program the camera to use the slots in Backup Mode (each image is written to both cards), Overflow Mode (when the first card is full, the camera switches to the second card) or RAW Slot 1-JPG Slot 2 Mode (RAW files are written to the first card and JPGs to the second card). The camera system features (Photo/Provided by PhotoMed) Nikon’s 85mm macro lens and a Metz wireless macro flash. For more information, please visit www.photomed.net or call PhotoMed at (800) 998-7765. DT