Get your pen out. You will want to take notes for the letter you are going to write to the editor about what I am going to say.

How many times have you been talking to one of your coworkers and thought, “Wow, I did not know that!”

Robert presents to your office for a regular maintenance appointment. Your practice has treated Robert for the past 15 years, and you have watched him grow from a child into adulthood.

Dental hygienists routinely assess their patients’ oral health by correlating their behaviors, habits, conditions, and diseases with current medical and dental data reported in the literature.

Anne Nugent Guignon, RDH, MPH, provides popular programs, including topics on biofilms, power driven scaling, ergonomics, hypersensitivity, and remineralization.

Over the last 18 years as a consultant, I have pushed many dental professionals out of their comfort zone by asking them to adopt new behaviors or change existing ones.

“Cancer is a word, not a sentence.” John Diamond, a British broadcaster and journalist who passed away from throat cancer in March 2001, uttered those inspirational words.

Last year the practice where I worked for 10 years was sold. The new owner has made some changes along the way, some good and some bad.

As a hygienist, Pilates instructor, and educator, I play the role of teacher in many different settings.

If your code of ethics differs from colleagues, do you stand firm?

Oh, the joys of periodontal disease assessment! I think I woke up on the wrong side of the bed one morning because I was looking for any excuse not to perform a comprehensive periodontal exam.

This article continues the discussion concerning effective means to prevent medical emergencies in oral health settings.

As you provide clinical hygiene care, have you ever had a patient say, “That’s not what the other hygienist told me”?

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Thank you for giving me the opportunity to share with your readers my life’s passion — the treatment of oral myofunctional disorders and how they affect the entire body’s health.

The final day of a short summer vacation to Scotland (tagged onto the end of the International Federation of Dental Hygienists’ triennial meeting) was spent in the town of St. Andrews.

Which do you trust more — published trials, or what you see with your own eyes?

Hager Worldwide recently introduced the Duration Air/Water Syringe Tips.

As “masters” of co-discovery with our patients and partners in co-therapy with our dentists, it is our professional responsibility to understand and embrace implant technology and maintenance.

Starting a new school year brings expectations for students and teachers alike, especially when it comes to academic performance.

There are two kinds of language, dead and alive. With the former, new words, such as in Latin, are never added.

As remineralization technology has emerged in preventive practice, dental hygienists have the methods to manage dental caries and prevent the No. 1 chronic disease in America.

Unprotected skin can take on a red glow and develop painful blisters if it’s overexposed to the sun.

My great-niece Sydney came for a visit and was playing with my Barbie Dentist set. She said to me, “This could not be a good dentist; she has no lab coat.”

On Mother’s Day I was excited about cooking for my Mom. In preparing for her arrival, I bathed my four dogs and brushed their biofilm-laden teeth.

Dental hygienists are prone to work-related injuries, so the implementation of sound ergonomic principles is imperative to remain healthy.

Your patient is Henry, who is a 15-year-old male and has been in your practice for several years. Henry presents with noticeable, coalescing ulcerations appearing clinically as multiple ...

Patients visit their dentist on average four times per year, spending more time with their oral health professionals than their regular medical doctors.

Decades ago, workplace safety was rarely mentioned in either the academic world or the treatment room.

>Six months ago, the Comfort Zone column went on a stroll down memory lane. Ergonomics — the topic that was the original foundation for this column — has been the focus of every column this year.

The medical history is a tool that is used in dental and dental hygiene practices as an effective means of preventing a medical emergency.

In my office, all new patients are scheduled in hygiene first. I don’t know why they aren’t scheduled with the doctor first, but what the heck, I just work there.

As soon as I entered the office, my eyes were drawn downward. “Nice floors.” I gave the reception area a once-over. “Warm. Inviting.

Once upon a time, there lived several unfulfilled RDHs in Colorado. With crammed schedules, old equipment, and poor job satisfaction, these hygienists wished for a small miracle.

In recent years, many proposed new and alternative dental providers have surfaced, and all have a specific scope of practice and corresponding educational preparation.

In 1897, a young girl named Virginia wrote a letter to the New York Sun asking if there really is a Santa Claus

In Panama, La Pollera de Gala is the national dress. Seamstresses spend countless hours making this fluid dress with hundreds of yards of soft Irish linen.

This article will focus on the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan in the Middle East, and Michele Darby, BSDH, MS, a Fulbright scholar in Jordan.

For years, dental hygienists have been on the front line of a war against pediatric dental disease — the No. 1 chronic childhood illness in our country.

Dave (our husband and father) went to school with a boy named Paraclease Nicolococus, a name he has yet to forget after 34 years.

We live in a world of ever-changing electronic technology and almost everyone I know is on the cutting edge.

With apologies to Julie Kagan, the author of Mind Your Body and who often signs off correspondence with the line, “mind your body and keep moving,” I have a piece of advice for you.

Luan Nguyen was nominated for this month’s cover by her daughter, Lydia.