Implementing telehealth practices can enhance oral health care delivery and improve access to care.

Periodontal health is intricately tied to oral and systemic health in patients with special needs.

Following are strategies to help improve treatment outcomes in this patient population.

Clinicians need to understand the signs and symptoms of opioid abuse and engage in efforts to curtail it.

Oral health professionals should be prepared to address chronic idiopathic or dysfunctional orofacial pain conditions.

Consuming a Middle Eastern diet could reduce systemic and periodontal inflammation compared with a Western diet.

With an increasingly diverse population, oral health professionals need to be able to communicate effectively with all types of patients.

Following are strategies to support oral health professionals in their efforts to meet the needs of this patient population and to identify barriers to care.

Following are assessment techniques that are easily implemented into routine dental hygiene practice.

Oral health professionals play a crucial role in the early detection and post-therapy management of this disease.