Ms. Jacquelyn L. Fried is Associate Professor and Director of the Dental Hygiene Program in the Department of Health Promotion and Policy at the University of Maryland Dental School. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science and a Certificate in Dental Hygiene from the Ohio State University. She also holds a Master of Science in Dental Hygiene from Old Dominion University. She...

Dental and dental hygiene faculty members often do not provide consistent instruction in the clinical environment, especially in tasks requiring clinical judgment. From previous efforts to calibrate faculty members in calculus detection using typodonts, researchers have suggested using human subjects and emerging technology to improve consistency in clinical instruction. The purpose of this pil...

Dental caries is an infectious yet preventable disease that is rampant in some subpopulations in the United States, in particular among individuals with neurodevelopmental/intellectual disabilities (ND/ID). This article reports on the implementation and evaluation of the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center (LSUHSC) School of Dentistry interprofessional school health educational mo...

BACKGROUND Developmental dental hard tissue anomalies are often associated with oral health problems. This study determined the clinical prevalence of developmental dental hard tissue anomalies in the permanent dentition of children resident in southwestern Nigeria and its association with dental caries and poor oral hygiene status. METHODS This was a cross-sectional study recruiting 1565 sch...

PURPOSE The purpose of this research was to study some of the reasons why African Americans are underrepresented in dental hygiene. The purpose was to 1) describe African American representation in dental hygiene and dental hygiene education; 2) evaluate the relationship between the percentage of hygienists and the percentage of African Americans by state; and 3) evaluate how the professional p...

1. Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Kyungbok University, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2. Dental Spa Dental Clinic, Daejeon, Republic of Korea 3. Dept. of Dental Hygiene, College of Health Sciences, Sunmoon University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea 4. Oral Health Research Institute, Korean Academy of Systematic Stomatology, Seoul, Republic of Korea 5. Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Wonkwan...

Although research regarding self-assessment as a curriculum component has been undertaken previously, no data have been reported regarding the perceptions of graduates who were taught self-assessment as a formalized component of accredited dental hygiene programs. Aided by alumni insight and the belief that the dental hygiene curriculum has the potential for improvement, the purpose of this qua...

1. Seoul Kids' Dental Clinic, Seoul, Republic of Korea 2. Dept. of Dental Hygiene, College of Health Sciences, Sunmoon University, Cheonan, Republic of Korea 3. Dept. of Dental Hygiene, Vision University College of Jeonju, Jeonju, Republic of Korea 4. Dept. of Pediatric Dentistry, College of Dentistry, Wonkwang University, Iksan, Republic of Korea 5. Wonk Wang Dental Research Institute, Iksan, ...

PURPOSE To assess California dental hygiene educators' perceptions of an application of the American Dental Hygienists' Association's (ADHA) advanced dental hygiene practitioner model (ADHP) in medical settings where the advanced dental hygiene practitioner collaborates in medical settings with other health professionals to meet clients' oral health needs. METHODS In 2014, 30 directors of Cal...