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Quelling The Anxiety: Strategies For Treating Patients With Anxiety Disorders, Gwen Grosso, Renee Garcia Prajer

Dental Hygiene Faculty Publications

Patients with anxiety disorders now have a variety of approaches including education, pharmaceuticals, and natural alternatives to assist them in anxiety reduction during dental treatment and in daily life.

Treating Patients With Alzheimer's Disease, Renee Garcia Prajer, Mark Kacerik

Dental Hygiene Faculty Publications

What you need to know in order to provide the best possible care for patients suffering from this progressive brain disorder.

Effects Of Ultrasonic Scaling And Hand-Activated Scaling On Tactile Sensitivity In Dental Hygiene Students, Danielle L. Ryan, Michele Darby, Susan L. Tolle, Deborah Bauman, Dayanand Naik

Dental Hygiene Faculty Publications

Purpose. This study was conducted to determine if tactile sensitivity varies in dental hygiene students who use the ultrasonic scaler, as compared to those who scale with hand-activated instruments.

Methods. A two-group, randomized subjects, pretest-posttest design was carried out mid-semester for five weeks on 40 first-year dental hygiene students who met the inclusion criteria of this study and who agreed to participate. A convenience sample of 40 consenting, first-year dental hygiene students were randomly assigned to one of two groups (experimental or control). After establishing a baseline tactile sensitivity score with the Vibratory Sensory Analyzer (VSA), experimental group subjects used …