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From:Clinical Nursing Research (Vol. 6, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe idea for this project resulted from a conflict between what nurses were taught and what was practiced in their facility. Like many other nurses, we learned that lemon glycerin swabs should never be used for routine...
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From:New Coin Poetry (Vol. 51, Issue 2)Your clothes were immigrants from better wardrobes. You smuggled the odours of one season into the next inside the weave of your shirts, navigated weeks and months in the same clothes you woke up in. You found it...
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From:Nursing Older People (Vol. 20, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedA fear of the dentist's drill may be affecting how nurses view the oral health care of their own patients. That is the intriguing view of a research team who examined nurses' attention to oral health among older people...
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From:American Rehabilitation (Vol. 16, Issue 3)People with disability face many problems in obtaining adequate dental care both in terms of daily oral hygiene and routine professional treatment. Physical barriers, financial limitations, poor motivation, and lack of...
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From:The Dental Assistant (Vol. 86, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedVarious studies estimate that more than 90 percent of the U.S. population suffers from chronic, ordinary gingivitis. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC) reports that half of Americans age 30 or older...
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From:Science (Vol. 296, Issue 5567) Peer-ReviewedThe increase of allergic diseases in the industrialized world has often been explained by a decline in infections during childhood. The immunological explanation has been put into the context of the functional T cell...
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From:The Dental Assistant (Vol. 74, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThe 2005 Dental Command NCO and Soldier of the Year Competition wrapped up on April 11th with SFC Corey Winn and PFC Matt Kitchell taking home the honors. Soldiers and NCOs were represented from the Dental Command's six...
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From:Advanced Materials & Processes (Vol. 152, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedPlacontrol Inc. has improved its Plackers floss brand by utilizing AlliedSignal Inc.'s polyethylene fiber. With the use of the fiber, Placontrol is able to make a floss that is strong, slippery and resistant to fray and...
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From:Journal of Dental Hygiene (Vol. 92, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: The intent of this qualitative study was to construct a new theory for the discipline of dental hygiene. Dental hygienists' experiences while participating in legislative efforts to expand their scope of...
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From:American Journal of Critical Care (Vol. 16, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground Oropharyngeal colonization with pathogenic organisms contributes to the development of ventilator-associated pneumonia in intensive care units. Although considered basic and potentially nonessential nursing...
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From:Journal of Dental Hygiene (Vol. 74, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: Since consumers do not follow the generally recommended rinse time of 30 seconds when using mouth rinses, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of five mouth rinses used for 15 seconds (reported...
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From:Contemporary Long Term Care (Vol. 23, Issue 4)Saliswab oral hygiene swabstick and salivary stimulator increases saliva and helps alleviate dry mouth from drug therapy and nutritional deficiencies....
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From:Maternal and Child Health Journal (Vol. 25, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedPurpose School-based oral health programs (SBOHPs) provide opportunities to address oral health inequities by providing convenient access points for care. No published guidelines on SBOHP implementation existed. Our...
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From:Bulletin of the World Health Organization (Vol. 88, Issue 7) Peer-Reviewed
Swimming upstream: why sanitation, hygiene and water are so important to mothers and their daughters
So many things impact the health and well-being of women as they navigate their childbearing years. The most under-recognized of these are water, sanitation and hygiene, yet the benefits of these basic interventions are... -
From:Journal of Dental Hygiene (Vol. 84, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: The purpose of this study was to appraise the perceived benefits of magnification loupes by clinical dental hygiene faculty, to assess the degree to which loupes were being utilized in educational settings,...
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From:Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy (Vol. 2, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA major UK government-funded campaign has been launched in an attempt to encourage hospital staff to improve hospital hygiene by washing their hands more often. The campaign has been launched by the National Patient...
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From:Practice Nurse (Vol. 22, Issue 10)The RCN is calling for sexual health education to be mandatoqry for all nurses during their basic training, regardless of their specialty. The RCN aims to identify the professional role that nurses play in the area of...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 319, Issue 7219) Peer-ReviewedEditorial gave incorrect source of data EDITOR--I congratulate Kay on her succinct appraisal of the issues surrounding the question of the optimum interval between dental check ups.[1] I fully endorse all her...
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From:Journal of Dental Hygiene (Vol. 89, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedPurpose: As more direct access dental hygienists expand oral hygiene services into diverse settings, often geographically dispersed, opportunity to network and knowledge share can be limited. Communities of Practice...