Mary Kaye Scaramucci, RDH, MS, is a professor in the Department of Dental Hygiene at the University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College. She has been the program's preclinical coordinator for the past 30 years. Scaramucci is a contributing editor for two chapters in Mosby's Dental Hygiene: Concepts, Cases and Competencies, 2nd edition, and one chapter in Essentials of Dental Hygiene from Pearson Prentice Hall.