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Dental Hygienist: A Guide to Successful Dental Impressions
Dental professionals generally use impressions to create exact replicas of their patients’ teeth. Impressions form a negative mold or imprint of the patient’s teeth and gums, and this mold is later used to make a positive model of the teeth. Of course, the process of actually taking a dental impression can be quite complicated, and sometimes dental hygienists will have to perform the task several times before getting an accurate representation of the patient’s teeth.
Quality Assurance and Dental Hygiene
Quality assurance is any systematic process of checking to see whether a service is meeting specified requirements. The service in this case is dental hygiene care.A� As many other professional regulatory bodies, the College of Dental Hygienistsa�� of Ontario (CDHO) implements a quality assurance program as a standard.A� The delivery of the quality assurance program may vary among professional healthcare colleges.A� Examples of quality assurance programs include a point system or the use of a
Tooth Whitening Products For Dental College Grads
As part of their daily duties, dental assistants as well as dental hygienist school graduates provide patients with information on tooth care products and how to use them. One of the most common products used at home by dental patients are tooth whitening products. Since most patients dona��t have dental assistant training themselves, advising them on what products to use is key to them getting the results they want. But with so many products on
Effective and Long-term Teaching Techniques
According to economist and scholar Abu Rizvi, academic institutions and their faculty are faced with the task of providing students with effective and long-term teaching. In order to achieve this, he provides the following advice (as cited by Tomorrowa��s Professor 2015, p.7): Teach for further use, not for recall or display. Too often we ask that students simply recall their knowledge. They succeed when they can reproduce information. But disciplinary understanding is a tool to
Cosmetic Dentistry Procedures After Dental Hygienist School
Students in dental hygienist school and those taking dental assistant training, are preparing for careers which will help improve the oral health of patients by preventing setbacks like gum disease and cavities. There is, however, another form of tooth and mouth care that dental assistants may find career options in: cosmetic dentistry. With this type of dental work, the focus is shifted from tooth health and functionality to appearance. While cosmetic dentistry isna��t an official
World Oral Health Day
If you didn’t already know, oral health is globally recognized each year on March 20. This day has been designated ?World Oral Health Day?. As indicated on their website, a wide range of awareness-raising activities take place on this day. The global recognition of oral health on this day is a platform for the oral health community to take action and help reduce oral disease. When the world is your stage, you have a huge
Researchers Discover a Biomaterial Cure to Tooth Sensitivity
One common affliction that all dental assistants will treat in their lifetime is teeth sensitivity. Many patients come into the dental clinic in a day complaining of a sharp pain in their tooth, often when eating cold or acidic foods. Some describe the pain as if they are a�?biting a forka�?, a shooting sensation straight from the tooth into the gums. While dentists have devised ways to combat this affliction (such as sensitive toothpaste), these
New Study: Beaver Teeth Have Secret Decay-Proof Ingredient
Long a symbol of clean teeth, the beaver may go from being a dental health mascot to actual helper in the fight against tooth decay and weakened enamel. This is due to a new study at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois that looks to beaver teeth as a blueprint for making human teeth healthier. Now this doesna��t mean that people will be studying beaver teeth in dental hygienist school or that beavers will suddenly become
New Study Links Tooth Loss with Slowing Mind and Body
When you take a dental assisting course or attend dental hygienist school, youa��re preparing for an important career which helps people take better care of their oral health. While that most certainly is the main responsibility of professionals in this career path, it looks like therea��s something else you may be doing when you become a dental hygienist or a dental assistant. You very well may find yourself on the front lines of identifying and
Embracing Technology for a Better Dental Hygiene Education Experience
Faculty find it challenging to teach students in this technologically charged environment where students are often distracted from the learning. In addition, most often students believe the educator should deliver the course material to them and thus play a passive role in the leaning. So what can be done to bring the student back into the classroom? Furthermore, how do educators involve students in the learning? Some educators suggest that educators not be afraid of
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