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    • Volume 45, Issue 4 (June 2025)

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    Knowing the major minerals can help you guide your dental patients toward better health
    Minerals are important for bone density and bone regulation, including the alveolar bones. Discuss them with your patients to see if they're getting enough in their diet.
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    Here's how to avoid becoming stagnant in your clinical dental hygiene job
    Amber Auger, MPH, RDH
    June 17, 2025
    There's no need to feel stagnant in your career. You can take steps to prevent this from happening, including attending CE and conferences.
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    dental hygienists want to break the chains and become autonomous for many reasons
    This is an unfiltered examination of the structural sexism embedded in dentistry, a profession that has long constrained the autonomy of hygienists under the pretext of safety...
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    Systemic and oral implications of long COVID
    While the medical/dental community is aware of COVID-19 symptoms and treatment, much less is known about long COVID. Here is some guidance about the signs, symptoms, and treatment...
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    The basics of dental unit waterlines
    Many dental professionals are confused about how to get their dental unit waterlines to pass the safety test. In part two of this series, Amanda Hill, BSDH, RDH, CDIPC, explains...

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    dental hygienists should embrace leadership and mentorship
    Supporting and collaborating with your fellow dental hygienists will boost the profession and patient care. Mentorship is a terrific way to begin.
    Westmoreland dental hygiene students pose together after their successful fundraiser.
    Taking the dental hygiene boards is expensive, but these dental hygiene students successfully raised funds to cover their costs. They share their tips.
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    Periodontal disease: A comorbidity?
    Lara James, NTM, RDH
    June 12, 2025
    Telling a patient their periodontal disease isn’t only affecting their teeth, bone, and gums but also affecting their heart, lungs, and diabetes may be more impactful and taken...
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    Sharpened dental instruments
    Sharp instruments are key to effective, comfortable care—so don't neglect them! Learn when, why, and how to keep your tools cutting-edge.
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    Hygienist using suction device on patient
    Struggling with suction in the operatory? Here are some safe and effective innovations in high- and low-volume evacuation tools you may want to introduce into your practice.
    Supragingival calculus and a lower lingual retainer
    Amber Auger, MPH, RDH, presents a case study on scaling and root planing with glycine-based air polishing.
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    Pseudomonas aeruginosa and dental implant longevity
    P. aeruginosa is a particularly opportunistic pathogen that is implicated in peri-implant infections, bone loss, and subsequent dental implant failure. Here’s what you need to...
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    Hygienists play a critical role in preventing infection by maintaining clean, safe dental unit waterlines. The SAFEWater Solution from Sterisil offers an easy, effective way to...
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    Woman laying down her phone on the table
    Discover how intentional disconnection from our hyperconnected world can help dental professionals reduce burnout, restore balance, and reclaim their well-being—both in and out...