New legislation in Tennessee helps dental hygienists provide preventive care to disadvantaged children.

Dental professionals are charged with informing parents about how they can safeguard their children's oral health.

Dental hygienists have much to be thankful for as the profession moves toward an integrated future.

A recent change in eligibility requirements enables dental hygienists to become certified diabetes educators.

Advocacy is key to improving the oral health of all Americans and ensuring the vitality of the dental hygiene profession.

ADHA President Margaret Lappan Green, CDA, RDH, MS, and Executive Director Ann Battrell, RDH, MSDH(c), share their thoughts on the future of dental hygiene and ADHA's new goals.

In an era of immense change and advancement in the life sciences, dental hygiene can lead the risk assessment movement or get stuck by the wayside.

The ADHA is working toward ensuring the growth, health, and vitality of the profession but the destiny of dental hygiene rests with hygienists themselves.

The American Acadamy of Periodontology believes that knowledge sharing between dental hygienists, general dentists, and periodontists is key to improving the periodontal health of Americans.