
Melissa Van Witzenburg
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Mar 7, 2024 |
rdhmag.com | Amanda Hill |Melissa Van Witzenburg |Kathryn Gilliam |Sheila Britten
In the movie Erin Brockovich, there’s a scene where the legal teams are sitting around a table, and Erin (played by Julia Roberts) says to the opposing council, “We brought that water in special for you, folks; it came from a well in Hinckley,” and the lawyer who was about to drink it sets it down and abruptly ends the meeting. I can’t help but draw a parallel from this scene to the water in our dental operatories.
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Mar 6, 2024 |
rdhmag.com | Melissa Van Witzenburg |Katrina Holt |Tom Viola |Sheila Britten
Trigeminal neuralgia is a chronic and debilitating condition.1 It is characterized by severe, stabbing, and recurrent pain, lasting from some seconds to many minutes.1-6 Studies show that many of these patients have episodes of spontaneous pain that have a short duration.2,6 The pain clears up between attacks, and it does not happen when a person is asleep.2 This condition affects one or more branches of the trigeminal nerve, and it is the most common neuralgia.2,3,6 There are usually two...
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Nov 24, 2023 |
rdhmag.com | Anne Rice |Kristin Evans |Melody McGee |Melissa Van Witzenburg
Editor’s note: This is part four of a four-part interview series with Tim Donley, DDS, MSD. Part one: Dentistry's narrative has failed. How should we change? Part two: 6 questions to get your dental office practicing evidence-based carePart three: What is chronic inflammatory periodontal disease (CIPD)? Anne Rice: Will you speak about the research you are involved in within cardiology? Dr. Donley: Cardiology gets it.
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Nov 22, 2023 |
rdhmag.com | Kristin Evans |Melody McGee |Melissa Van Witzenburg |Kathryn Gilliam
When I first started dental hygiene school, I learned instrumentation on a typodont. After much practice, I became more confident and knew I would do well as a dental hygienist. Then I encountered a real mouth, and a tongue—a squirmy, large muscle that seemed to inflate and take up all the space in the mouth. Have you ever wished you could take that tongue out of your patient’s mouth during treatment and have clear access to the teeth and gingiva?
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Nov 21, 2023 |
rdhmag.com | Melissa Van Witzenburg |Melody McGee |Kathryn Gilliam |Barbara K. Tritz
Dental hygienists are broadly educated in common systemic illnesses, oral pathology, and communicable diseases. Presumably, every hygienist encounters patients who present with health conditions they aren’t familiar with, and this is likely the case regarding trigeminal neuralgia (TN). This rare condition is twice as prevalent in women as men and is often undiagnosed, misdiagnosed, or underdiagnosed. Also by the author ...
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