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Volume 31, Issue 8
Volume 31, Issue 8
Volume 31, Issue 8
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Personal Protective Equipment
Food in the dental setting
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
Enter the entrepreneur
Aug. 1, 2011
Water Safety
Time-released xylitol
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
How to approach social networking
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
State of mind
Aug. 1, 2011
More content from Volume 31, Issue 8
Xerostomia
Getting past conversation stoppers in health histories
A more detailed peek at medications to prevent oral complications
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
Explaining the 'job'
While mentoring a future student, author reflects on the rewards of developing trusting relationships with patientsby Loretta Sue Humphrey, RDH, MARecently, I had the opportunity...
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
Territorialism and cliques
For the past 10 years, I've worked in an office with two other hygienists and two doctors. There are three hygiene operatories.
Aug. 1, 2011
Water Safety
Can we change the world?
My husband and I have a wicker basket where we place all the magazines and catalogs that are mailed to us.
Aug. 1, 2011
Radiology
Positive ID
The evidence is that hygienists have a home in forensic odontology
Aug. 1, 2011
Home
Crazy about hygiene
Imagine practicing clinical hygiene without the benefit of power scaling. It involves hours upon hours spent hand scaling ...
Aug. 1, 2011
Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction
TMJ assessment
Extensive forces can wreak havoc on the oral cavity. What about the temporomandibular joint and the constant movement it endures?
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
Oral epithelial dysplasia: What does it really mean?
Patients are sometimes followed for periods of time for what is called dysplasia, leukoplakia, keratotic lesions, and previous frank carcinoma.
Aug. 1, 2011
Radiology
10th anniversary of 9/11
Looking back and moving forward
Aug. 1, 2011
Home
Coping with energy vampires and life
On two days each week, I practice in a general dental office. Treating patients is one of the joys of my life.
Aug. 1, 2011
Home
What would Irene say about too many schools?
The American Dental Hygienists' Association outdid itself again for its annual session in Nashville last June.
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
Are we ready to care for advanced periodontitis in an aging America?
The baby boomers have taken over America! The largest growing age group of all sociological groups studied are persons over age 65.
Aug. 1, 2011
Home
CE Course
This course was written for dentists, dental hygienists, and assistants.
Aug. 1, 2011
Home
The role of history in dental hygiene
Recently, I read an interesting chapter by Pickett and Hanlon that described the historical evolution of public health ...
Aug. 1, 2011
In-office Preventive
Product Report
Cranberry USA recently introduced Luv Nitrile Powder Free Exam Gloves.
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
The critical foundation
Driving a car is a fact of life for most of us. It can be fun, a chore, hectic, nerve-wracking, dangerous, or even relaxing.
Aug. 1, 2011
Rinses/Pastes
Sunstar Americas’ PerioShield
Keep your eyes open for G.U.M. PerioShield, a brand new oral health rinse by Sunstar Americas, Inc.
Aug. 1, 2011
Personal Wellness
Dental hygiene economics
Coping with the supply and demand issues of dental hygiene
Aug. 1, 2011
Periodontitis
Lasers, EBDH, and snakes...oh, my!
Rays of sunlight poured through my windows on a hot summer's day. Even though it was early evening, temps in Atlanta were still way above normal.
Aug. 1, 2011