By: Mr. Kevin Henry I recently was in St. Petersburg, Fla., for a dental meeting, and, while there, I took part in a bicycle tour that took us by Tropicana Field, the home of the Tampa Bay Rays. As we pedaled past, I had a flashback to being there for a baseball...
By: Kyle O'Donnell, DDS I am excited to celebrate this holiday season more than any other time in recent memory. For the first time in three years, I hope to share meals, laughs, gifts and hugs without the haze of uncertainty the pandemic provided for so many of...
By: Mr. Gary Salman The dental community continues to see triple extortion methods deployed by many hacking groups. These occur when hacking groups steal all the data from a victim, publish the data on the Dark Web and contact the practice’s employees and patients...
By: Ms. Kiera Dent It’s no secret that running a dental practice is hard. I mean, here you are, reading this article about how to go from Winging It to Bringing It, hoping to glean some gems to help your practice thrive rather than just survive. When I started as...
By: Dr. Dwinita Mosby Tyler The U.S. (well, the whole world for that matter) has experienced dramatic change over the past year and a half and some of those changes have us wondering how much progress we have made in advancing and achieving health equity. You know...
By: Ms. Minal Sampat, RDH, BA You may be an amazing clinical dentist but if you aren’t marketing your skills and practice properly, potential patients won’t know. As a healthcare professional, marketing may not be what excites you but it’s essential to your...
By: MS. Susan Cotten, BSDH, RDH, OMT The day started out like a normal Wednesday, work in the morning and then a trip to Trader Joe’s. I almost didn’t go; my to-do list was long, and the 36-mile round trip would take time away from checking things off that list,...
By: Ms. Karen Davis, RDH, BSDH An unexpected benefit of the SARS-CoV-2 viral pandemic for dentistry is the emergence of data shedding light on the safety of utilizing aerosol-generating devices on patients during dental hygiene care. Many dental hygienists...
The Chemistry, Use and Effect of Psychoactive Substances By: Ms. Amber Riley, MS, RDH, FAAFS, FIACME Psychoactive substances legal or not, are ubiquitous in our communities and used by the patients we treat. Use and abuse, of psychoactive compounds, date back...
By: Leslie Canham, CDA, RDA, CSP Imagine you are working on a patient and as you reach for an instrument, you suddenly feel something sharp. You are bleeding and you realize that you just had an exposure incident! Do you know exactly what to do? When...