Dental Hygiene: Page 141

Will capturing droplets at the source make dental offices safer?

By Melissa Busch

Wearing personal protective equipment, sending sick employees home, and integrating indoor air quality control strategies, such as air cleaning, can reduce exposure to SARS-CoV-2. However, installing extraction arms can take safety to the next level at dental offices.

August 18, 2020

Colgate unveils new smart electric toothbrush

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Colgate-Palmolive has released a new smart electric toothbrush called hum by Colgate.

August 17, 2020

Which mouthwashes inactivated SARS-CoV-2 the best?

By Melissa Busch

Over-the-counter mouthwashes may inactivate SARS-CoV-2, reducing the viral load in patients' mouths for a short period of time and potentially cutting the risk of transmission, according to a study published on July 29 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases.

August 17, 2020

Instafloss tops $1M in crowdfunding campaign

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Instafloss has raised more than $1 million for its 10-second, multijet flosser thanks to the support of more than 8,235 backers on Kickstarter.

August 16, 2020

'We don't want to die.' RDHs open up to us in latest survey results

By Kevin Henry

We asked dental hygienists across the U.S. for their thoughts on the current and future states of their profession and the dental industry. In this article, we begin to unveil some of the concerns that we have heard from hygienists about returning to work and their "new normal."

August 16, 2020

Week in Review: WHO and dentistry face off | Your practice's air quality | Boosting your business

By Kevin Henry

August 14, 2020

Smile Generation Serve Day to benefit After Innocence organization

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Smile Generation Serve Day, a project of Pacific Dental Services, will take place on Saturday, August 15. The annual day of service is part of a nationwide campaign of giving that focuses on dental care.

August 13, 2020

Dental Home Day at Interfaith Dental Clinic a success

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Interfaith Dental held a Dental Home Day to kick off providing a full year of free dental care to 100 underserved children from middle Tennessee. The annual service event was made possible by a $25,000 grant from the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry Foundation, as well as corporate sponsorship.

August 13, 2020

WHO's call to halt oral care in COVID-19 hotbeds gets icy replies

By Melissa Busch

Associations and dentists are reeling from the World Health Organization's (WHO) recent recommendation to postpone routine dental checkups in areas with community spread of COVID-19 to protect dental teams and patients from potential infection-spreading aerosols.

August 13, 2020

Alaska dental therapy program marks milestone accreditation

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

A dental therapy program in Alaska is the first program of its kind to win accreditation from the ADA Commission on Dental Accreditation.

August 12, 2020

GC America to host free online bioactive dentistry symposium

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

GC America will host a free online symposium on bioactive dentistry on August 21 at 9 a.m. Central time.

August 12, 2020

Is an electric cooker the answer to sanitizing N95s for reuse?

By Melissa Busch

Dry heat generated by electric rice cookers, pressure multicookers, and ovens may decontaminate N95 respirators, making them safe for reuse, according to an article published on July 15 in Environmental Science & Technology Letters.

August 11, 2020

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