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The Link Between Oral Health and Systemic Health: A Review

Oral health and general health should not be interpreted as separate entities. Our mouths...

Denture Adhesives: When, Why, and How

With my great denture techniques, my patients don’t need adhesives, right? As a dentist,...

Automatic External Defibrillators

Automatic External Defibrillators (AEDs) have been placed in a variety of public locations nationwide,...

Filling Root Canal Systems With Centered Condensation: Concepts, Instruments, and Techniques

Filling root canals seems to be the primary obsession of dentists providing endodontic therapy...

Maximum Hygiene

As hygienists, we worked for years doing “bloody” prophies. In many cases, when we...

Sterilizer Monitoring: Rationale for Using Biological Indicators

In late 2003, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released revised Guidelines...

Don’t Lose Patients in the Chair…or the Charts

As I wrote in the August issue of this magazine, a doctor is judged...

Hand Care and Waterlines: Update for the Dental Professional

Dentistry has a responsibility to adhere to scientifically accepted principles of infection control. The...

Saving Lives in the Dental Office

When you were in dental hygiene school, did you ever imagine that one day...

Simplifying Single-Stage Solid Abutments: Techniques for Impressioning and Temporization

Single-stage implants are being utilized more frequently. Currently, Straumann ITI, Lifecore Biomedical, Sulzer Paragon,...