Rural North Carolina has a significant access-to-oral-health-care problem with three counties—Camden, Hyde, and Tyrrell—without a practicing dentist for more than 10 years, and more than 50 counties with noted dentist shortages.

New York University (NYU) College of Dentistry’s World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Center for Quality Improvement and Evidence-Based Dentistry, together with The Lancet, hosted an event at the United Nations to bring oral health…

Each month, Newsline features some of our most active Dimensions of Dental Hygiene Brand Ambassadors.

Research from the University of Nevada, Reno, School of Medicine and University of Maryland School of Dentistry indicates patients with deficit schizophrenia have a wider oral palate than individuals with other forms of the disease, as well…

The American Dental Association (ADA) has released a new guideline that suggests antibiotics are not appropriate for toothaches in most cases.

If you could change anything about providing oral health care, what would it be?

Digital Agenda covers all that’s happening under Dimensions’ social media platforms.

A new year is upon us! Greeting another year is always thought-provoking since it’s likely the only time that we reflect back and look forward simultaneously.

A federally qualified health center—Penobscot Community Health Care—in Bangor, Maine, has received the necessary funding to begin a pilot project that would integrate the state’s first dental hygiene therapist into its dental center’s care…

To kick off the new year, Dimensions of Dental Hygiene is excited to an­nounce the launch of two new columns—”Digital Agenda” and “Social Commentary.“