From the archive: Why employ a dental hygienist?
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A day in the life of a dental hygienist.
The morning begins a half hour before the first patient is scheduled. I prepare for the day by looking through each patient’s chart. I am looking to see what preventive treatment might be needed for this appointment, and I review the patients’ medical history. I also want to know when the patient was last in our office for an appointment, and what was done. Was it preventive? An emergency? A ne...
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Tal Amasay1,∗ and Andrew Karduna2 1Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences, School of Human Performance and Leisure Sciences Barry University, 11300 NE 2nd Ave., Miami Shores, FL 33161, USA 2Department of Human Physiology, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97405, USA OCCUPATIONAL APPLICATIONS This study found that dental hygienists are exposed to higher shoulder elevation angles when treating ...
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Quality assurance (QA) and continuing competence (CC) programs aim to ensure acceptable levels of health care provider competence, but it is unknown which program methods most successfully achieve this goal. The objectives of the study reported in this article were to compare two distinct QA/CC programs of Canadian dental hygienists and assess the impact of these two programs on practice behavi...
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PURPOSE Dental hygienists have often been described as the registered nurses of the dental field. Similar parallels also exist between the development of the nurse practitioner from the nursing profession and the evolution of the dental hygiene practice and profession. This article explores 3 major similarities between the professions of nurse practitioner and dental hygienist. Public health is...
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عنوان ژورنال: BDJ team
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['2054-7617']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41407-022-1660-x