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A Marketer’s Take on Practice Building

All businesses need to have an ongoing marketing effort in order to maintain their...

New Directions in Dentistry

Based on my activities with Clinical Research Associates as senior consul-tant, my educational projects...

Selecting and Using Personal Protective Equipment

Greater use of personal protective equipment (PPE) by dental personnel began in the mid-1980s....

Environmental Surface Asepsis

Dental practitioners may be exposed to a variety of pathogenic microorganisms when providing dental...

Oral Healthcare for Patients With Disabilities

The federal Healthy People initiative has provided a framework to address health disparities and...

Preparing Instruments for Sterilization

Many local home centers offer short courses on a variety of repair and remodeling...

Maximum Hygiene

As hygienists, we worked for years doing “bloody” prophies. In many cases, when we...

Protecting Electronic Health Information as Part of HIPAA

The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) calls for standards for administrative, physical,...

The Role of the Infection Control Coordinator

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is the lead federal agency for...

How Bad Ads Can Undermine Good Practices: Get Your Message in Print Properly and New Patients Will Follow

“No Pain, No Gain!” the headline bellows. If the clichéd message in this ad...