For Americans who desperately want to keep their children in school and themselves at work, rapid at-home COVID-19 tests are key to avoiding quarantine. However, with the least expensive option coming in at $12 a test, they will be a…

While the Spanish flu of 1918 has held the record as the deadliest disease event in the nation’s history with 675,000 deaths, it is clear that COVID-19, with 674,000 deaths and rising, will soon bypass this number. The global death rate due…

Matt Crespin, MPH, RDH, turns his passion for dental hygiene into a career dedicated to supporting the overall health and well-being of children across the state of Wisconsin.

It seems that not even dentistry is safe from the abundance of misinformation found on social media.

New research may help ease far-reaching effects of salivary gland cancer treatments.

On September 17, the United States Food and Drug Administration’s Vaccine Advisory Committee voted against recommending a third shot, or booster, for vaccinated individuals older than 16. The vote applies to both the Pfizer and Moderna…

A certain segment of those who recover from COVID-19 experience lingering symptoms such as breathing difficulty, fatigue, post-exertional malaise, brain fog, and headache. In order to better understand these post-COVID symptoms, the United…

On September 16, the American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) released a new update to its “Interim Guidance on Returning to Work,” which was initially published in May 2020. The update is based on revisions to the United States…

FluoroDose Fluoride Varnish with Xylitol just got an upgrade to have top-of-the-line packaging to match its top-of-the-line quality! The award-winning varnish is now packaged in our new enclosed LolliTray, a fully enclosed package designed…

Tennessee has earned the unwanted prize of being home to the most new COVID-19 cases per capita in the United States. One out of 81 Tennessee residents tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during the past week. The number of COVID-19 cases in the…