With funding for the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) set to expire in September 2015, the advocacy group Oral Health America (OHA) is asking dental professionals to express support for the passage of the CHIP Extension Act by…

Underserved patients in Maine have reason to smile.

Research shows that patients who receive hemodialysis due to end-stage kidney disease are at increased risk of oral disease, and they often have limited access to professional oral health services.

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene Editorial Advisory Board member Cynthia C. Gadbury-Amyot, MSDH, EdD, received the Alfred C. Fones Award at the American Dental Hygienists' Association Annual Session in June in Las Vegas.

Jill Rethman, RDH, BA—editor in chief of Dimensions, internationally known speaker and author, and past president of the Hawaii Dental Hygienists' Association— is the new president elect of the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA)

Carmen Hui, a May graduate of New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry's Associate in Applied Science Degree Program in Dental Hygiene, is the recipient of the fourth annual Alla J. Wheeler Ethics and Professionalism Award.

Registration is now open for a three-part continuing education workshop titled “Advanced Clinical Dental Hygiene Techniques”—hosted by the Ostrow School of Dentistry at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles.

Juanita S. Wallace, RDH, PhD, who dedicated 38 years to dental hygiene education, will receive The Esther Wilkins Lifetime Achievement Award at a June 20 reception during the American Dental Hygienists’ Association Annual Session in Las…

While guidelines on the safe practice of radiographic imaging are available, it is unclear how many oral health professionals follow these recommendations

The Faculties of Medicine and Dentistry at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, hosted an interprofessional oral-systemic health day in early February, bringing together more than 200 health care and human services providers to…