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Expand Your Risk Assessment Protocol

...and oropharyngeal cancer. Available at: www.cancer.org/cancer/oralcavityandoropharyngealcancer. Accessed September 22, 2011. National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health. What you need to know about oral cancer.…

Stub Out the Tobacco Habit

...Smoking-Attributable Disease: A Report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 2010. US Public Health Service. Treating Tobacco Use and Dependence: Update 2008. Available at:…

Essential Tools for Increasing Health Literacy

...Readability of Text Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test: www.readabilityformulas.com/flesch-grade-level-readability-formula.php Fry Readability Graph: www.readabilityformulas.com/fry-graph-readability-formula.php Gunning Fog Index:…

The Genesis of Drug Development

...December 16, 2002. Available at: www.tnr.com/thisweek.mhtml?i=20021216. AccessedOctober 20, 2003. Report to the Nation 2002. Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Available at: www.fda.gov/cder/reports/rtn/2002/rtn2002-3.htm.…

Dental Hygiene in Progress

...Dental Hygiene. Available at: www.bridgeport.edu/ academics/ fones school/ history.aspx. Accessed March 13, 2013. Connecticut Dental Hygienists’ Association. History of Dental Hygiene. Available at:…

Uncover the Cause

...common short-term effects. One of many long-term effects includes psychological (but not physical) dependence on MA.34-36 MA use causes hyposalivation via the stimulation of receptors within salivary gland vasculature inducing...

Dentinal Hypersensitivity Management

...Y. Innovations for combating dentin hypersensitivity: current state of the art. Compend Contin Educ Dent. 2012;33(Spec No 2):10–16. West NX, Lussi A, Seong J, Hellwig E. Dentin hypersensitivity: pain mechanisms...

Addressing the Oral Side Effects of Cancer

...Oral health in cancer therapy: a guide for health care professionals. Available at: doep.org/images/OHCT_III_FINAL.pdf Accessed October 19, 2015. Schubert MM, Peterson DE. Oral complications of hema-topoietic cell transplantation. In:…

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