Current Issue: Volume 107, Number 8 (2025)

Each month, The Journal of the Michigan Dental Association provides news, information, and features about Michigan dentistry to our state's oral health community and the MDA's 6,200+ members. It stands as the primary publication reaching Michigan dentists. The August issue marks the end of digital only publishing, as the MDA announced it will provide members a bimonthly print issue along with monthly digital distribution. This issue includes:

• A cover feature on the impact on the dental community of the recently adopted Big Beautiful Bill federal budget
• Mandibular Lingual Concavity Evaluation Using CBCT
• A reprinted clinical feature from New York on Correcting Mucogingival Defects
• A Personal Perspective on the benefits of fluoride by former editor Bill Chase
• Opinion is provided by a guest editorial by former editor Michael Maihofer
• Back Page article on the importance of access to hospital dentistry.
• And our regular departments: New Dentist Column, MDA Services, Dentistry and the Law, Staff Matters, MDA Insurance.