The Role of the Dental Hygienist in Caries Risk Assessment

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene September 23, 2020

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By Elizabeth I. Pitts, RDH, MS and Margherita Fontana, DDS, PhD

Dental hygienists are key to personalized, evidence-based caries prevention, which involves a thorough and comprehensive assessment of individual risk indicators and factors, detection and diagnosis of carious lesions, and acknowledgement and incorporation of the patient’s medical and dental histories.

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Treatment and Management of the Pregnant Patient

Ivianie Exinor, RDH, MPH, and Gabrielle R. Liquori, RDH, BSDH, CDA, provide an overview of how the dental hygiene process of care and the shared decision making model is applied when treating pregnant patients.

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene November 3, 2021

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Is There Ever a Time You Can Skip the Health History?

Tiffanie White, MEd, BS, a clinical assistant professor in the Dental Hygiene Program at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill Adams School…

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene July 26, 2021

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Dental Hygiene Educator Works to Ease Vermont’s Hygienist Shortage

The state of Vermont is struggling with a severe shortage of dental hygienists. Vermont has only one dental hygiene school, and one of its professors…

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene May 28, 2024

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Sustainability in Clinical Practice–Are You Aware?

Sustainability can be defined as avoidance of the depletion of natural resources to maintain an ecological balance. At a recent Dentsply Sirona World Conference, Dimensions…

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene November 21, 2022

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