Hygiene
Professional Standards, Personal Responsibility
One of the best parts of being a hygienist in a dental practice is...
Long-Term Care
Dentistry for The Long Term Care Patient
Among the groups in the United States with the most limited access to dental...
Hygiene
Trends in Dental Hygiene: Shaping the Way Dental Practitioners Do Business
Wouldn’t it be great if you had a crystal ball and could foresee the...
Photography
Digital Photography Enables Better Soft Tissue Screening, Diagnosis, and Case Acceptance
Figures 1 to 3. Pretreatment and immediate post surgical digital photographs taken with the...
Legislation
Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)
The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) became law in 1996. The purpose...
Hygiene
New Age, New Meals, Old Problem
Whether it’s in a cup or a can, today’s “meals-on-the-go” are risky. As adults...
Hygiene
Protecting the Next Generation: The Dental Hygienist’s Role in Managing Periodontal Disease as a Risk Factor for Low-Birth-Weight Babies
How do you serve your pregnant patients? Do you serve them at all? Do...
Orthodontics
Aesthetic Dentistry and Prom Night
Aesthetic dental procedures are routinely employed to improve a patient’s smile. Direct resin bonding...
Management
Lifestyle Modifications and the Management of Hypertension
There is evidence suggesting that hypertension affects nearly 50 million Americans.1 A study reported...
Management
Managing Money Flow to Safeguard Your Practice
I first met Dr. Don Lewis, an oral surgeon from Cleveland, Ohio, when he...