Canadian Dental Association
Your online link to news and information on dentistry and oral health in Canada.
Information Services & Clinical Support
CDA offers a wide range of information and clinical support services to members.
LEXI-COMP® Online™, CDA Edition
This exclusive member service features a suite of clinical information databases designed to keep modern practitioners informed about prescription and over-the-counter (OTC) medications.
Lexi-Comp uses experienced dentists, pharmacists and other clinicians to serve as authors, editors and reviewers of its drug information content. Two Lexi-Comp databases are available via the members' side of the CDA website:
- Lexi-Drugs Online™ offers clinical information on over 1,600 drug monographs covering more than 8,000 brand-name medications.
- Lexi-Natural Products™ features clinical information on commonly used natural products and their potential interactions with prescription and OTC medications.
Other value-added features include education materials tailored to adult and pediatric patients. These customizable patient advisory leaflets, known as Lexi-PALS™ and Pedi-PALS™, provide clear and concise statements about treatments and medications, available in 18 languages.
™LEXI-COMP Online, CDA Edition, Lexi-Drugs Online, Lexi-Natural Products, Lexi-PALS and Pedi-PALS are all registered trademarks of Lexi-Comp, Inc.
Electronic Table of Contents Service (eTOC)
How do you keep up with the more than 25,000 articles in dentistry published every year? CDA is pleased to announce a solution – eTOC. This membership benefit – an electronic table of contents awareness service - lets you decide what to read and when. The service is available to CDA members at no additional cost.
- Select from over 200 leading scientific, dental and medical serial publications currently received by CDA.
- There is no limit to the number of selections you can make.
- Add or delete selections as often as you like.
- Cancel at any time.
You’ll receive the tables of contents of your selections by email as soon as each publication arrives at CDA.
Sign up today! Reduce the time you spend searching journals and other scholarly publications for the information you need. For full details, visit www.cda-adc.ca/etoc.
CDA Publications
Canadian Dental Assocation (CDA) publications connect members to news and information about Association initiatives. They are a reliable source of information about developments affecting the profession. These publications also provide members with first-class clinical resources.
Journal of the Canadian Dental Association (JCDA)
Canada's only peer-reviewed dental journal, the Journal of the Canadian Dental Association (JCDA) is CDA's clinical and research publication.
Published 6 times a year, JCDA maintains a unique body of knowledge and relays the latest developments in the profession and organized dentistry.
JCDA employs a complementary print and electronic publishing strategy to provide essential knowledge to Canadian dentists and their colleagues worldwide.
JCDA the print magazine contains a lively mix of clinical articles, information about issues facing the dental profession, summaries of research papers and news about matters pertinent to dentists. It is mailed to all dentists and dental students in Canada as well as subscribers outside the country.
The new JCDA.ca, an open access publication, houses scientific and clinical articles that contribute to the literature, as well as user-friendly presentations of clinical material and news pertinent to the profession.
JCDA Express
JCDA Express is an e-newsletter that brings you concise, up-to-date information about important developments in the dental and biomedical literature pertinent to Canadian dental practitioners.
In each issue, you will receive a list of clinically oriented articles selected by members of JCDA's broad community of expertise. We include links to either the abstracts or the full-text articles, and our contributors will briefly explain why, in their view, these are must-read papers.
Our goal with this member service is to minimize your research efforts so you can maximize your reading time.
JCDA Update
JCDA Update is an email bulletin that keeps you up-to-date on new material currently found on the JCDA website.
You can read JCDA Update to find out more about articles recently posted to our Research, Clinical Dentistry and News & Issues sections of JCDA.ca. New audiovisual presentations on JCDA.ca are also highlighted in JCDA Update.
Note: CDA's Website Privacy Policy applies to all of its e-publications.
Continuing Education & Networking
CDA's Annual Convention is an ideal opportunity to network with your colleagues and attend specially designed scientific, clinical and practice management presentations.