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  • Volume 39, Issue 2

    • Volume 39, Issue 2

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    Disinfection

    Products to see at the Chicago Midwinter Meeting

    Feb. 1, 2019
    Headed to the exhibit hall? Here are some highlights of the many products that will be featured on the show floor.
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    Personal Wellness

    Practice Changers: Gingicaine

    Feb. 1, 2019
    When it comes to scaling, I am burnished calculus’s worst nightmare. I find few things as rewarding as removing calculus that has been hiding under the patient’s gums.
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    Xerostomia

    Finding the right dry mouth fit

    Feb. 1, 2019
    Patti DiGangi, BS, RDH, says if that dental hygienists are not treating at least 30% of their patients for dry mouth, they could be underdiagnosing and undertreating this condition...
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    Water Safety

    A practical guide for testing dental unit waterlines: Part 1

    Noel Kelsch, MS, RDHAP
    Feb. 1, 2019
    Waterline safety has been a concern for decades in dentistry, but disease outbreaks connected to waterlines have made this issue more prominent. Compliance is vital to both patient...
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    In-office Preventive

    Why your employer should care about dull instruments

    Amelia Williamson DeStefano, MA
    Feb. 1, 2019
    Lots of dental employers don't give two scalers about dull instruments. They are wrong.

    More content from Volume 39, Issue 2

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    Rinses/Pastes

    Pediatric oral care: Assisting parents and children

    Nancy W. Burkhart, EdD, MEd, BSDH, AAFAAOM
    Feb. 1, 2019
    Dental hygienists are vital to promoting a total health concept and helping parents teach best oral health practices to their children.
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    Personal Wellness

    Products that make kids smile

    Feb. 1, 2019
    Alyssa Delgado, MSDH, RDH, makes pediatric product recommendations based on Piaget’s theory of cognitive development.
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    Personal Wellness

    Seasonal affective disorder and the winter blues: How the time of year may be affecting you and your patients

    Feb. 1, 2019
    This time of year can affect people’s moods, and sometimes it can have an adverse effect on their health. Try to watch your patients for seasonal affective disorder (SAD). As ...
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    Radiology

    Cone-beam computed tomography in pediatrics

    Feb. 1, 2019
    This dental hygienist admittedly had mixed emotions when she first heard the pediatric practice where she works was purchasing a CBCT unit. But her dentist’s enthusiasm was infectious...
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    Temporomandibular Joint Dysfunction

    Tethered oral tissues: Signs, symptoms, and assessments

    Feb. 1, 2019
    The lifelong consequences of tethered oral tissues (TOTs) are becoming much more widely known, and dental hygienists are ideal health-care providers to screen for these issues...
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    Periodontitis

    Stop selling dentistry: Contributing to production with empathy

    Feb. 1, 2019
    By taking the time to have conversations with patients, dental professionals can find out what they want, and then determine how staff and patients can reach those goals together...
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    In-office Preventive

    Proud of My Op: An operatory with a view

    Feb. 1, 2019
    Take a tour of the operatory of Paige Cowan Seaborg, RDH, in downtown Seattle.