Reconnecting Practicing Hygienists with the Nation's Leading Educators and Researchers.

Patients Can Now Visit Their Dentist for Treatment and Monitoring of Sleep Apnea

Dec 22, 2011

Patients Can Now Visit Their Dentist for Treatment and Monitoring of Sleep Apnea Henry Schein Dental brings together three leading companies to provide Sleep Complete™, a new comprehensive solution for...

Ultrasonics

The Keys to Successful Power Instrumentation

Jul 18, 2012

...anesthesia in order to comfortably undergo ultrasonic instrumentation. Subgingival instrumentation with the dental endoscope almost always requires pain management. After a closed instrumentation procedure is completed, an explorer…

Caries

Addressing the Silent Epidemic

Sep 10, 2012

...management in children: decisionmakingand therapies. Compend Contin Educ Dent.2002;23(Suppl):9–13. Braga MM, Ekstrand KR, Martignon S, Imparato JC,Ricketts DN, Mendes FM. Clinical performance of two visualscoring systems in…

Miscellaneous

Manage the Immune Response

Sep 10, 2012

...Pa: Professional Audience Communications Inc; 2010:224. Kumar V, Fausto N, Abbas A. Diseases of the immune system. In: Robbins and Coltran Pathologic Basis of Disease. 8th ed.Philadelphia: Saunders Elsevier; 2009:1–15....

Miscellaneous

Etiology of Noncarious Cervical Lesions

Oct 18, 2012

...JO. Abfractions: a new classification ofhard tissue lesions of teeth. J Esthet Dent.1991;3:14–19. Palmer B. Abfraction: A Literature Review andHypothesis. Available at: www.brianpalmerdds.com/hypothesis_abfractions.htm.…

Special Supplements

Promote Periodontal Health

Feb 11, 2013

...Risk indicators for alveolar bone loss.J Periodontol. 1995;66:23–29. American Academy of Periodontology. Non-Surgical PeriodontalTreatment. Available at: www.perio.org/consumer/nonsurgical.Accessed January 16, 2013. From Dimensions…

Remineralization

Remineralize with Calcium-Based Therapies

Mar 6, 2013

...caseino glyco -macropeptide and caseino phosphopeptide into the salivary pellicle inhibits adherence of mutans streptococci. J Dent Res. 1996;75:1779–1788. From Dimensions of Dental Hygiene. March 2013; 11(3): 30, 32, 35....

Instrumentation

Channeling for Success

May 7, 2013

...dental sulcus and tooth root surfaces. J Periodontol. 2002;73:374–382. Stambaugh RV. A clinician’s 3-year experience with perioscopy. Compend Contin Educ Dent.2002;23:1061–1070. From Dimensions of Dental Hygiene. May…

Remineralization

Enhance Remineralization

May 8, 2013

...of Dental Hygiene. 2011;9(3):58–63. Øgaard B. The cariostatic mechanism of fluoride. Compend Contin Educ Dent. 1999;20(Suppl):10–17. Siqueira WL, Custodio W, McDonald EE. New insights into the composition and functions…

Polishing

Polishing Particulars

Jun 5, 2013

...Available at: www.fda.gov/CombinationProducts/JurisdictionalInformation/JurisdictionalUpdates/ucm106560.htm. Accessed May 8, 2013. Stearns RI. Incorporation of fluoride by human enamel. 3. In vivo effects of nonfluoride and fluoride…