Barbara Bennett, CDA, RDH, MS, has been actively involved in dentistry for more than 30 years. She is the department chair for Texas State Technical College, Harlingen, Tex, Dental Hygiene and Dental Assisting Programs, and the division codirector for Allied Health Programs. She has been a contributing author for several dental hygiene textbooks and has reviewed and written articles of interest to dental personnel in several professional publications. Bennett has served as an accreditation curriculum consultant for the American Dental Association Council on Dental Accreditation, and is past president of the Rio Grande Valley Dental Hygienist Society.