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Role of Patient Communication in Caries Management

Dimensions of Dental Hygiene

Dental caries is a transmissible bacterial infection but also a chronic biobehavioral disease. Modern caries management calls for customized risk-based disease prevention and management strategies. Without a change in an individual’s etiologic factors, new and recurrent caries will likely occur.

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The dentist’s role in smoking cessation

ASDA Blog

In dental school, we learn that smoking causes a variety of health problems, including oral health problems such as oropharyngeal cancers, periodontal disease, gingival recession, caries and tooth staining. It is called the “5 A’s”: Ask: Identify and document tobacco use status for every patient at every visit.

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What’s Driving the Accelerated Growth of DSOs?

Planet DDS

A patient care focus is what keeps you in the game. Scheduling and patient communication support. Patient-facing protocols. The effort increased safety assurance for patients and dental team members in a pandemic-cautious culture. Patient and provider anxiety about dental care increased. in 2005 to 76.1%