As the prevalence of heart disease grows, dental hygienists must be aware of its implications for dental care.

Dental hygienists need to be prepared to promote and defend community water fluoridation as an effective caries-prevention strategy.

The implementation of remedial maintenance instrumentation may help clinicians improve periodontal therapy outcomes.

Guided tissue regeneration offers new treatment possibilities in the field of periodontal therapeutics.

With the help of new technology, clinicians can enhance their view of the oral cavity while improving ergonomics and patient care.

'Six Dental Hygienists You Want to Know' announced.

Dental hygienists can use a variety of techniques to reduce the negative effects of stress.

I have been practicing dental hygiene for 11 years and am right-hand dominant. I try routinely to sit properly, adjust my body throughout the day, and use magnification, yet I suffer from right shoulder stiffness and sometimes pain by the…

Dental hygienists play an important role in the diagnosis and management of these lesions.

I have more than 30 years of experience as a clinical dental hygienist in Massachusetts. I thought that diagnosis and treatment planning were outside of dental hygienists' scope of practice and that these duties were the purview of dentists…