Diana B. Aboytes, RDH, MS, is an assistant professor and senior clinic coordinator in the Department of Dental Medicine at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. She is a practicing clinician of 15 years and educator of both graduate and undergraduate courses for the past 8 years. She has also authored chapters in the textbooks Local Anesthesia for the Dental Hygienist and Primary Preventive Dentistry. Aboytes is an active member of the American Dental Hygienists' Association.