Mark Hartley, Editor of RDH magazine

Several companies produce probiotics for the oral environment. Recently, Oragenics Inc. introduced a probiotic for children, EvoraKids, which offers a different probiotic blend than the adult product known as EvoraPlus.

Dr. Jeffrey Hillman, the chief scientific officer at Oragenics, developed both products. Dr. Hillman
is the company’s founder, a project initiated after 25 years of research on caries and other oral disea

Two factors have shaped my early reactions to required electronic health records. Olivia Wann’s article in RDH eVillage, “What’s New with HIPAA,” is still the second
most viewed article on DentistryIQ.com. In addition, some members of the dental

community, most notably Texas dentist Darrell Pruitt, hav

The final two days of the International Federdation of Dental Hygienists in Glasgow, Scotland, have been wall-to-wall seminars, generally lasting about one hour each. The speakers are primarily from the United Kingdom. But a few Americans have been sprinkled here and there, including my colleague from IneedCE.com, Fiona Collins. But Fiona, now a Colorado resident, is a native of Scotland.

The presentations were interrupted by the meeting's gala dinner last night. All of the IFD

The flag ceremony at the International Federation of Dental Hygienists meeting certainly pales next to the Olympics. I'm sure a similar presentation by an international community of dentists would be just as grand, if not overwhelming in comparison.

You have to be a devoted follower of dental hygiene, I guess, to feel the pride of watching the home flags of dental hygienists being paraded down the aisle at the opening ceremony of the IFDH. It's rewarding to observe the professi