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The mouth might be the most intimate part of the body we rarely talk about that way. 🦷✨

While traveling through Italy before a dental hygiene symposium, one clinician noticed something: every shared meal, every toast, every long conversation at the table came back to one thing the mouth.

It's how we speak our first words, laugh, sing, and smile in the photos that outlive us. And it's also where patients hand over an extraordinary amount of trust the moment they sit in our chair.

Swipe through for a reflection on why oral health is about so much more than function. 👆

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The American Dental Association is pushing back against Delta Dental of California's new $15 fee for dentists who receive paper checks—a policy that could cost practices nearly $800 annually and take time away from patient care.

The ADA is calling for regulatory oversight and urging dentists to take action by contacting Delta Dental, reaching out to state insurance commissioners, and advocating for state-specific payment legislation.

💬 How is your practice navigating payer policies that impact operations?

Asking for a friend: can we retire the term "deep cleaning"? 🦷
Scaling and root planing, deep cleaning — tomato, to-mato. Semantics, right?
Not quite. The language we use has a butterfly effect that's going dangerously unnoticed ... creating misconceptions about what periodontal therapy is, who can perform it, and why patients need it.

Erika Lauren Serrano, RDH breaks down why the term is doing more harm than good, what it actually means for maintenance compliance, and the patient delivery points that educate rather than confuse.

Swipe for the full breakdown. 👆

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