Recently, while reading online, this headline caught my attention: "Dentists to Test Patients' Blood Pressure Under New Program."

When you think of your profession and your role in health care, what descriptors come to mind?

Have we been wrong for so many years in recommending that patients floss?

Summer is in full swing with its hot days and myriad activities.

Dental hygiene professionals have long understood the association between oral and overall health.

On May 5, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced it will regulate e cigarettes along with all tobacco products, including hookah, tobacco, cigars and pipe tobacco.

In my April Editor's Note, I wrote about renewal and how we need to embrace the changes taking place in dental hygiene.

Spring has arrived, which always evokes thoughts of renewal and rebirth.

Dental hygienists are well known as the prevention experts on the oral health care team.

While February is noted for Valentine's Day and Presidents Day celebrations, the oral health care community knows it as National Children's Dental Health Month.