Facing the Challenge

By Donna Smith, BSDH, MSEd, RDHAP


Periodontal maintenance is among the most challenging tasks faced by dental hygienists. From learning to critically evaluate the periodontal tissues, to discovering continuing periodontal attachment loss, to detecting residual calculus and performing often-blind scaling and root planing, periodontal maintenance requires dental hygienists to make maximal use of their skills.

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