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Unfiltered conversations about oral health, healthcare, wellness, and everything in between. Smart. Sarcastic. A little bit feral.

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Matthew Bradley, RDH — The Guygienist: Male Hygienists, Medical-Dental Integration & Refusing Mediocrity

The Guygienist on being a male dental hygienist, growing on social media with a message, the ADHA integrative health summit, dry mouth after radiation therapy, airway conversations that stick, and whether isolated 5mm pockets really need SRP.

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17

Everything Your Grandmother Told You About Oral Health Might Be Wrong

Dental myths debunked: Listerine's weird history as a surgical antiseptic and floor cleaner, where the six-month cleaning myth came from, fluoride and the thyroid, hydroxyapatite, baking soda abrasivity, charcoal toothpaste and SLS.

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Melissa A. Obrotka, The Badass Hygienist: Scope of Practice, Standard of Care & Why Hygiene Has to Change

Melissa A. Obrotka, RDH — The Badass Hygienist — on why hygiene school benchmarks calculus instead of clinicians, the independent practice debate, temp-rate reality, and treating every patient like somebody you love.

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15

Your Tongue Has Opinions: Vitamins, Minerals, Gut Health & Sleep

Angular cheilitis, bleeding gums, burning tongue and dry mouth — plus vitamin D, vitamin C, zinc, magnesium, fiber, probiotics and sleep, and why the mouth is the body's early warning system.

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