Researchers confirm a correlation between mental health and oral health problems

Misty Mattingly, RDH, BS, won’t give up when it comes to furthering the profession of dental hygiene.

Sharing isn’t caring when it comes to communal use of oral hygiene tools—no matter how close you are.

A recent study details benefits of adding midlevel practitioners to the dental team.

New research links periodontal diseases and nitric oxide-reducing oral bacteria with blood pressure regulation.

Innovative solutions to common oral health problems may be on the way with regenerative therapies.

Cynthia C. Gadbury-Amyot, RDH, MA, EdD, has spent her long career helping future dental hygienists and dentists learn.

Stymied by the global pandemic, Elizabeth McClure, RDH, MEd, sought legislative help to enable her dental hygiene students to receive provisional licenses to provide much-needed dental care to Ohioans.

With most Americans wearing masks while in public places due to the global pandemic, bad breath and dry mouth may become painfully apparent.

Researchers are looking closely at the relationship between low-grade inflammation and aging, or “inflammaging.”