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Routine spore testing confirms sterilizer performance, safeguards patients, and keeps dental practices compliant with CDC and OSHA…
Medicaid Cuts Push Dentists Out and Patients Pay the Price
Cut reimbursement, lose dentists. Who pays the price when Medicaid access disappears?
Arizona’s Oral Preventive Assistant Debate: Expanding Access or Lowering the…
Arizona wants dental assistants cleaning teeth with less training. Will patients pay the price?
Kentucky Tables Assistant Scaling Proposal as Practice Act Moves Forward…
Kentucky’s assistant-scaling proposal is off the table. Here’s what the Board of Dentistry’s decision means.
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Neurologic Symptoms Present in Most Patients Hospitalized With COVID-19
Among patients hospitalized for COVID-19 in the greater Chicago area, 82.3% exhibited neurologic symptoms, including myalgia, headache, encephalopathy, and dizziness, at some point during their illness. Dysgeusia and anosmia were less…
Dental Hygienist Reflects on the Profession During the Global Pandemic
Dimensions Brand Ambassador Ann Cote, RDH, MSHA, reflects on the changes she has experienced since returning to work in May 2020.
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Oral Health Professionals to Receive Priority in COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution
Dental hygienists and dentists were identified as essential healthcare workers who should receive priority in receiving a COVID-19 vaccination during a webinar hosted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine on…
Appropriate Fluoride Exposure in Toddlers
This information is from the article Addressing Precavitated Lesions in Toddlers by Durinda Mattana, RDH, BSDH, MS. To read the article, click here.
CDC Asserts Novel Coronavirus Can Be Spread Via Airborne Transmission
The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention updated its COVID-19 website on October 5 with information acknowledging that the novel coronavirus can be spread via tiny droplets (aerosols) when individuals are more than 6…
Controlling Plaque Biofilm
Oral healthcare is focused on preventing and treating oral diseases. Periodontal diseases and caries, while largely preventable, are pervasive. In most cases, they can be prevented by controlling plaque biofilm via toothbrushing,…
One in 10 Older Dental Patients Inappropriately Prescribed Opioids
A new study by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of Pittsburgh suggests that a significant proportion of older patients receiving opioids at dental visits also use psychotropic medications — a potentially…
NIH Uncovers Why Some Develop Severe Illness With COVID-19
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that 10% of those who become severely ill with COVID-19 have misguided antibodies that attack the immune system instead of the novel coronavirus. In addition, 3.5% have a…
Some Recommend Unapproved Drug to Prevent COVID-19
More than 30 medical practices and compounding pharmacies have been recommending the injection of thymosin alpha-1, which does not have approval from the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as a preventive agent or treatment…
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