Rachel Kearney, RDH, MS, is an associate professor in the Division of Dental Hygiene at The OSU College of Dentistry, where she teaches courses on ethics and professionalism. Kearney's research interests include the impact of social media on dental education and dentinal hypersensitivity associated with tooth whitening. She is treasurer of the ODHA and an ADHA delegate.
Are there laws governing how many patients a dental hygienist can treat per day and whether he or she should be provided with a daily patient schedule?
I recently moved to a new area that is 90 minutes away from the dental office in which I have worked for 18 years. I found a position close to my new home, so I gave my employer, who recently purchased the practice, a letter of resignation…
I have more than 30 years of experience as a clinical dental hygienist in Massachusetts. I thought that diagnosis and treatment planning were outside of dental hygienists' scope of practice and that these duties were the purview of dentists…
As the popularity of electronic nicotine-delivery systems grows, dental hygienists need to be prepared to effectively advise patients about the risks of their use.