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    Periodontitis

    Patient right to refuse

    Jan. 2, 2019
    This person asks about the sticky area of dental patients who refuse treatment. She heard about a practice that lost a lawsuit with a patient who had signed the refusal of treatment...
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    Personal Wellness

    New year, new professional fitness

    Jan. 2, 2019
    Dental hygienists: Ready to eliminate occupational pain? Dr. Walker has these exercises specially for you.
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    Patient Care

    Life doesn’t stop for hygiene school

    Jan. 2, 2019
    No one can plan for the unexpected, but we all have to face it at some point. In this article, one RDH shares how a tragic car accident led her to drop out of dental hygiene school...
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    Patient Care

    The physical pain of the helping professions

    Jan. 2, 2019
    Christa Crilley McConaghy, BS, RDH, PHDHP, recounts her personal story of musculoskeletal pain from years of trauma and improper ergonomics that her hygiene career took on her...
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    Personal Wellness

    Why I fell in love with dental conventions

    Amber Metro-Sanchez, RDH, went to her first dental show and discovered how much untapped passion she had for her profession.

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    Personal Wellness

    Are you up for an ‘inspiration vacation’?

    RDH Under One Roof (UOR) has more registrations than we ever have before at this time of year, with the event still seven months away. But guess what? We still have room for more...
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    Personal Wellness

    Risk assessments: Integrating intraprofessional health models

    Jan. 1, 2019
    Through comprehensive risk assessments and an intraprofessional approach to health care, dental professionals can help patients achieve holistic health.
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    Rinses/Pastes

    Tailoring appointments: Special needs patients

    Jan. 1, 2019
    This dental hygienist has educated herself in order to handle the special needs people in her dental chair more effectively. Here she shares tips with her peers for making those...
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    Patient Care

    Arginine: A magical weapon in the war against oral microbial diseases

    Anne Nugent Guignon, MPH, RDH, CSP, takes us on a journey behind the science of the amino acid arginine and explains how this important chemistry is now available in OTC products...
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    Patient Care

    The black, white, and very gray areas of radiology

    Jan. 1, 2019
    Kristin Goodfellow, AS, RDH, explains the importance of taking patient x-rays. She addresses patient refusal, as well as offers suggestions about how and when to take radiographs...
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    Public Health

    How dental hygienists can help patients with thyroid disease

    Jan. 1, 2019
    Jessica Raymond Allbritten, BASDH, CRDH, gives an overview of the different types of thyroid disease and explains how dental hygienists can help patients who have it.
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    Water Safety

    Does periodontal disease drive pancreatic cancer?

    Jan. 1, 2019
    Is it possible that prevention of periodontal disease might be key to the prevention of pancreatic cancer? While intervention studies on humans to prove that theory have yet to...