by Nicole Bolinger | Aug 1, 2022 | Children, Community, Nutrition, Oral Health
Breastfeeding and proper oral rest posture (tongue resting on the roof of the mouth, lips together) are nature’s myofunctional therapy for babies. Mouth development in children is extremely important to their health and wellbeing. This begins at birth. Research...
by rdhapconnect | Dec 19, 2019 | Children, Oral Health, Oral Hygiene
The Holidays are here. Sweets abound. We know you want to give your kids, grand kids, nieces, and nephews everything they deserve. They don’t, however, deserve cavities. Stuff stockings with toothbrushes, floss aids, and cute water bottles.Put...
by rdhapconnect | Apr 9, 2019 | Children, Oral Health
I have become a reluctant blogger. :-/ There is such need for the services of advanced dental hygiene clinicians, it is hard to ‘pick a lane’ or topic to write about services we can perform. However, today I found this article “Why Little Teeth...
by rdhapconnect | Oct 9, 2018 | Children, Oral Hygiene, Oral Systemic Link, Special Health Care Needs
Forgive me for starting this posting with healthy snack pictures. This is really one of the answers to the tooth decay problem we have among our nation’s children. But I digress… I recently read Teeth, by Mary Otto. I knew the name Mary Otto, but...
by rdhapconnect | Jul 13, 2018 | Children, Direct Access Dental Hygienist, Schools
An RDHAP is licensed to provide dental hygiene care to those with limited access to care in the traditional dental office setting. What does a person who has “limited access to dental hygiene care” look like? This blog post is about how RDHAPs can...
by rdhapconnect | Jun 14, 2018 | Children, Schools
Teeth are very difficult to keep clean. There are spaces, depressions, tongues, cheeks, pits, and fissures than make it easy for food debris to hide and hard for us to remove. Thoroughly removing food debris from the chewing surfaces of our teeth is particularly...
