This information is from the article What Advice Can Be Offered to Patients with Soft Tooth Enamel? By Martha McComas, RDH, MS. To read the article, click here.

This information is from the article Clinical Insights: Proceed With Caution by Stephen K. Harrel, DDS. To read the article, click here.

Bacterial plaque is a soft, sticky, almost invisible biofilm containing millions of organisms that adhere to tooth surfaces, dental appliances, restorations, and oral mucosa. More specifically, oral biofilm is “a dense, transparent,…

This information is from the article Dentinal Hypersensitivity Diagnosis by Elizabeth C. Kornegay, CDA, RDH, MS. To read the article, click here.

This information is from the article Clinical Insights: What We Know and Don’t Know About Dental Aerosols by Stephen K. Harrel, DDS. To read the article, click here.

Legionnaire’s disease is a respiratory illness associated with the inhalation or aspiration of water sources (aerosols) contaminated with Legionella pneumophila bacteria. There are more than 50 Legionella species with L. pneumophila being…

Schizophrenia is a chronic brain disorder that causes acute cognitive deficits and abnormal emotional conditions manifested in thought, speech, and behavioral complications.

An alternative treatment for herpes labialis infection is the diode laser. This treatment option alters cell and tissue function, and decreases healing time.

Affecting the quality of life for more than 10 million Americans, temporomandibular disorders (TMDs) are musculoskeletal conditions associated with pain and dysfunction of the temporomandibular joint (TMJ) and muscles of mastication. The…

As of February 18, 2020, a total of 2,807 hospitalized e-cigarette, or vaping, product use-associated lung injury (EVALI) cases had been reported to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from all 50 states, the District of…