What Are Your Key Oral Hygiene Recommendations for Patients Who Use Cannabis?

Expanding its outreach within the community, the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine has an­nounced a partnership with Woods Services to provide dental treatment for Woods’ patients and residents.

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene has always been on the cutting edge, posting every issue on its website since 2002 and jumping into social media.

A dental assistant, Emily Fleming, CDA, at Patuxent Dental, a private practice in Hollywood, Maryland, whose husband and father had served in the military, shared with the staff that veterans often had difficulty accessing oral healthcare…

All who have experienced a SARS-CoV-2 infection know its distinct symptoms and effects.

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene—with premier sponsor Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc.—celebrated Winnie Furnari, MS, RDH, FAADH, FAAFS, FADE, as the 2022 Esther Wilkins Lifetime Achievement Award.

The use of buffered articaine offers several advantages in dental pain management.

Orofacial myofunctional disorders and chronic oral dysfunction may increase the risk for dental malocclusion and related craniofacial dysmorphology.

A combination of brief motivational interviewing and vaccination counseling can reduce risk for human papillomavirus-related oropharyngeal cancers.

Oral health professionals need to provide empathetic and supportive treatment to this patient population.