Hygiene

Maximum Hygiene

As hygienists, we worked for years doing “bloody” prophies. In many cases, when we were poised to inform patients of their periodontal conditions,.

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Saving Lives in the Dental Office

When you were in dental hygiene school, did you ever imagine that one day you would actually save a patient’s life? I never.

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How Home Care is Essential to Ensuring Successful Orthodontic Treatment Outcomes

t is important for the orthodontic practice to promote good oral home care by its patients. Patients often determine the long-term outcome of.

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Teeth First, Oral Fitness, and the Oral Theory of Everything

As a former bodybuilder, fitness trainer, and practicing dentist with 18 years of experience, I have spent the last 8 years perfecting a.

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Frustration: Educating Dental Professionals to Provide Care to People with Special Needs

More than 50 million United States residents have a developmental, physical, or mental disability that hinders their ability to function on their own.

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Changes in Thought for Dental Hygienists

The practice of dental hygiene is ever-changing as the scientific community allocates more time toward (and discovers more details of) how periodontal disease.

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The Staff’s Role in the Sale of a Practice

How many times have I heard the retiring doctor say, “When I sell my practice, how long do I need to stay with.

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The Manual Toothbrush and Oral Hygiene

Americans say they can’t live without them. What could they be talking about in the modern era of the 21st century? Could it.

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Compensation From All Angles

It’s staff review time again, and while you have been busy trying to understand how to give raises and still keep your practice.

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Treating the “Whole Patient” Builds the Practice

Considering the advances in technology over the last 10 years, dentistry today is much more than traditional “drilling and filling.” Dentists have an.

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