C. Austin Risbeck, RDH, is an author and speaker on the associations among periodontal diseases and heart disease and diabetes. He is president of Dental Hygienists Against Heart Disease, a member of ADHA’s Tobacco Cessation Task Force, and a member of the California Dental Hygienists’ Association (CDHA) Public Health Council and ADHA’s Council on Public Health. He has been involved in dentistry for more than 28 years and is a clinical dental hygienist at the Center for Aesthetic Dentistry in San Francisco.