When Lorene G. Kent, RDH, BA, envisioned the ideal journal for her fellow dental hygienists, one of the most important factors was beauty. She wanted to provide readers with high-level, peer-reviewed content within a visually appealing…

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene’s Editor in Chief Jill Rethman, RDH, BA, was elected president elect of the International Federation of Dental Hygienists (IFDH) on August 9 at the House of Delegates meeting in Dublin, Ireland. The new board…

I grew up visiting my Aunt Mary in a nursing home, and too soon after that, I found myself visiting my Grandma Louise in another long-term care facility. Seeing my wheelchair-bound grandma in that facility was one of the hardest things…

Expanding its outreach within the community, the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine has an­nounced a partnership with Woods Services to provide dental treatment for Woods’ patients and residents. Woods is a Pennsylvania-…

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene has always been on the cutting edge, posting every issue on its website since 2002 and jumping into social media. Once Dimensions’ founder Lorene G. Kent, RDH, BA, hired Kimberly Farrell  to lead the journal’s…

A dental assistant, Emily Fleming, CDA, at Patuxent Dental, a private practice in Hollywood, Maryland, whose husband and father had served in the military, shared with the staff that veterans often had difficulty accessing oral…

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene—with premier sponsor Colgate Oral Pharmaceuticals, Inc.—celebrated Winnie Furnari, MS, RDH, FAADH, FAAFS, FADE, as the 2022 Esther Wilkins Lifetime Achievement Award during a cocktail reception on June 24 at the…

Right after I was accepted to dental hygiene school, I was visiting my sister at a well-known hospital when she mentioned that her teeth felt awful from not being able to properly clean them. She asked the nurse for floss who replied, “I…

While older Americans have long faced barriers to care, it’s no surprise that lockdowns and restrictions resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated medical and dental conditions experienced by this patient population. To better…

The United States Food and Drug Ad­min­is­tration (FDA) has ap­proved a caries detection system based on artificial intelligence (AI). The system uses radiographs and information gleaned through the search of more than 100 million data…