In the ideal world your hygiene school would be a huge clinic with returning patients who don't mind staying for a 15 hour cleaning that they need to come back 6 times for. Friends and family are great but even they won't like you too much after they have to take multiple vacation days off. [...]
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Types of Board Questions
You will be required to take more than just the national boards in order to get your license for dental hygiene and local anesthesia. The following categories describe questions that are most commonly used. Make sure you understand and study content in all of these formats. Your professors will often try to use these formats [...]
What I Wish I Knew Before Hygiene School
Dental hygiene school is 2 cram-packed years of content. There will be tears. There will be fights. There will be days you wish you can go back to simpler times. My goal here is to give you somethings to think about as you start this journey. Here are a few very important lessons I learned [...]
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Is Teeth Whitening Bad For My Teeth?
What is the first thing you notice when you meet a person? Is it their eyes, hair...smile possibly? I feel like I am seeing more ads and celebrities promoting whitening systems than ever before. As soon as one company comes out with a whitening product, it seems as if 6 more pop up out of [...]
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Is Charcoal Toothpaste Safe?
I have to honest, the first time I heard of charcoal toothpaste I thought it was made from crushing black barbecue charcoal or from the same charcoal used to sketch drawings. To my pleasant surprise it is neither from a grill nor a pencil! What is Charcoal Toothpaste Charcoal powder is typically made by burning [...]
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What you’re doing wrong in your oral hygiene routine
Brushing your teeth in the morning seems like a pretty mindless activity right? But who's to say that it's any different than a skin care routine. Right now I have at least 5 skin care products on my bathroom counter. I am not immune to the youtubers and influencers preaching about their favorite products! BUT [...]