Linda Brookman, RDH, BSDH, MSHS, is a senior clinical instructor in the Department of Dental Hygiene and codirector of the Neighborhood Mobile Dental Van Prevention Program at the Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. She is also the supervising dental hygiene clinical instructor at Hollenbeck Skilled Nursing Facility in Los Angeles. Brookman works in a private periodontal practice, and has traveled nationally and internationally with Anna M. Pattison, RDH, MS, teaching advanced periodontal instrumentation techniques to practicing dental hygienists.