Oral Health Effects of Contraceptive Use
By Karla Lugo, RDH, BSDH, Isabella Trinh, RDH, BSDH, Giavonni Gonzales, RDH, BSDH, Faizan Kabani, PhD, MBA, MHA, RDH, FAADH, Lisa Mallonee, MPH, RDH, RD, LD, Maureen Brown, RDH, MS-HIED…
Category: Periodontics
Improve Nonsurgical Periodontal Therapy With Appropriate Instrument Choice
By Joan Beleno Sanchez, RDH, BSDH, BAS, Michaela Nguyen, RDH, BSDH, MS Successful nonsurgical periodontal therapy depends on eliminating biofilm and calculus to prevent the progression…
Oral Health Effects of Antiresorptive Medications
Oral health professionals need to be familiar with bisphosphonates and other antiresorptive medications due to their impact on dental health.
Periodontal Disease Management
Understanding the biology behind periodontal disease phenotypes will help oral health professionals create individualized periodontal treatment plans.
Reduce Oral Disease with Interdental Biofilm Control
By Terri Tilliss, RDH, PhD Oral healthcare is focused on preventing and treating oral diseases. Periodontal diseases and caries, while largely preventable, are pervasive. In…
Importance of Implant Maintenance
By Allison Fody, RDH, MPH, Lynn Marsh, RDH, EdD According to the American Academy of Implant Dentistry, 3 million people in the United States have implants…
Host Modulation and the Inflammatory Response
By Carleigh Fraley, BA, RDH, Jennifer Knox-Rodriguez, BS, RDH and Diana Macri, RDH, BSDH, MSEd Periodontal diseases are related to an immunoinflammatory response to various types of oral…
Determining Recare Intervals for Periodontal Maintenance
By Courtney P. Rudick, RDH-EA, MA, CHES; Melissa S. Lang, DDS, MS; Takanari Miyamoto, DDS, MSD, PhD, MBA In 2018 the American Academy of Periodontology…
Antibiotics and Periodontal Therapy
Host modulation adjunctive therapy is a treatment that potentially reduces tissue destruction by modifying host response factors.