What is a dental hygienist? A dental hygienist is someone who works in tandem with a dentist or orthodontist to provide the patient with preventative oral care. What does a dental hygienist do? Dental ...

Dental Hygienists are trained to evaluate a patient’s dental health. Their duties include taking x-rays, cleaning teeth, and applying fluorides and sealants to teeth. Dental hygienists are responsible ...

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The high degree of faculty-student engagement is what sets our online B.S. in Dental Hygiene completion program apart from those of other universities. We're always accessible to our students, getting ...

The American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) released new standards for the profession in March. These standards are an update to ones released in 2016. While the new standards still explain the ...

In the vast majority of states, hygienists cannot legally diagnose dental disease. Even in the few states that are the exception, diagnosis is limited to the scope of care delivered by hygienists and ...

When you go to the dentist, you usually spend most of the visit with the dental hygienist, whose role has expanded in recent years. So, too, has the need for dental hygienists. “The demand for dental ...

Americans are not able to take care of their teeth like they should, and it has severe consequences. Dental hygienists can help address this problem, but only if state policymakers consider ...