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Preparing Instruments for Sterilization

Many local home centers offer short courses on a variety of repair and remodeling...

Maximum Hygiene

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

Protecting Electronic Health Information as Part of HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) calls for standards for administrative, physical,...

The Role of the Infection Control Coordinator

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the lead federal agency for...

The Eleven Essentials of Effective Staff Meetings, Part 2: Getting it Together in the Name of Customer Service

his article is part 2 of a 3-part series that describes the Essentials of...

How Bad Ads Can Undermine Good Practices: Get Your Message in Print Properly and New Patients Will Follow

“No Pain, No Gain!” the headline bellows. If the clichéd message in this ad...

Operatory Computers: Expensive or Investment?

As soon as I get comfortable with something, it changes! Twenty-five years ago, I...

New CDC Infection Control Guidelines for Dentistry

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the lead federal agency for...

Selection and Use of Masks

The use of facemasks was first advocated at the end of the 19th century....

Hiring Practices—Not So Fast

Most dental practitioners are reasonably well versed about the possible pitfalls attendant to a...