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How to Encourage Change

...Resources for Researchers, Clinicians,and Trainers. Available at: www.motivationalinterview.org. Accessed July 30, 2010. Motivational Interviewing. Available at: www.mayo.edu/pmts/mc5300-mc5399/mc5383-07.pdf. Accessed July 30, 2010. From…

Protecting Our Youngest Patients

...with fluoridated toothpaste. Children between the ages of 2 years and 6 years should use a smear of fluoridated toothpaste, and children older than 6 years of age should use...

Automate Your Probing Process

...used, clinicians must use diligence and precision to navigate root contours in order to obtain accurate readings. Figures 2 and 3 courtesy of Gayle B. McCombs, RDH, MS, and Mark...

Develop a Documentation Protocol

...dried fluid. Erythema: Area red in color of inconsistent size and shape. Exophytic: Outward growth. Papillary: Small nipple-like protrusion. Petechia: Very small hemorrhagic spots. Pseudomembrane: Loose layer of cells that...

Sealants A to Z

...Available at: www.healthypeople.gov/2020/topicsobjectives2020/pdfs/OralHealth.pdf. Accessed October 11, 2011. Hyatt TP. Prophylactic odontotomy: the cutting into the tooth for the prevention of disease. Dental Cosmos. 1923;65:234-241.…

The Keys to Successful Power Instrumentation

...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…

Addressing the Silent Epidemic

...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…

Manage the Immune Response

...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....

Etiology of Noncarious Cervical Lesions

...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.…

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