On September 15, 2022, the American Medical Association (AMA) approved a new Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) code for silver diamine fluoride (SDF) application by healthcare professionals to ...

Last month, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul signed into law a dental hygiene bill that allows dental hygienists to use nitrous oxide and local infiltration anesthesia to assist dentists with all dental ...

As dentist offices start to reopen following coronavirus shutdowns, many dental hygienists say they are worried it might be too soon to see patients. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

BLANCHESTER, Ohio (WKRC) - As millions of people try to find their paths forward from the coronavirus shutdown, some are running into red-tape roadblocks -- like newly graduated dental hygienists ...