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HYGIENE TRIBUNE
The World’s Dental Hygiene Newspaper · U.S. Edition
MAY 2020 — Vol. 13, No. 1
www.dental-tribune.com
Virtual ADHA
Annual meeting will take place online from June 26 to 28
By Dental Tribune Staff
The annual American Dental Hygienists’ Association conference — which is
billed as “The largest, most comprehensive and cost-effective event for dental
hygienists in the nation” — is going virtual this year.
The meeting, originally scheduled to
take place in New Orleans, will run from
Friday, June 26 to Sunday, June 28.
“Due to the enduring impact of COVID-19, ADHA has made the very difficult
decision to cancel our in-person annual
conference,” the organization said in a
post to its Facebook page on April 25. “We
were really looking forward to seeing
you in New Orleans; however, the health
and safety of our community must come
first. So, we’re going virtual! Although
we can’t be together in person, we can
unite from the comfort of home for the
first-ever ADHA Virtual Conference.”
Up to 21 C.E. credits will be available
during the weekend, and topics include
oral cancer assessment, HPV, dental
sealants, varnish solutions, mobile dentistry, orofacial myofunctional therapy,
implant therapy and depression in staff
and patients, among others.
Of particular interest will be “A Conversation with the ADHA Task Force
on Return to Work” at 2:45 p.m. Central
Time on Saturday as well as a “COVID-19:
Your Questions Answered” roundtable at
4 p.m. Central Time on Saturday.
For more information, for a complete
schedule and to register for the event,
head to to www.adha2020.org.
Attendees head into the 2019 ADHA annual meeting in Louisville, Ky. This year, the ADHA
meeting is going virtual. Photo/Dental Tribune file photo
Citizen science: Flossing and dental
visits correlate to healthier mouths
Most people know that good oral hygiene — brushing, flossing and regular
dental visits — is linked to good health.
Colorado State University microbiome
researchers offer fresh evidence to support that conventional wisdom by taking
a close look at invisible communities of
microbes that live in every mouth.
The oral microbiome — the sum total
of microorganisms, including bacteria and fungi, that occupy the human
mouth — was the subject of a crowdsourced, citizen science-driven study by
Jessica Metcalf’s research lab at CSU and
Nicole Garneau’s research team at the
Denver Museum of Nature & Science.
Published in Scientific Reports, the study
found, among other things, a correlation
between people who did not visit the
dentist regularly and increased presence
of a pathogen that causes periodontal
disease.
For the experiments, carried out by
Garneau’s community science team in
the Genetics of Taste Lab at the museum,
a wide cross-section of museum visitors submitted to a cheek swab and answered simple questions about their demographics, lifestyles and health habits.
Microbial DNA sequencing data analyzed
by Metcalf’s group revealed, broadly, that
oral health habits affect the communities of bacteria in the mouth. The study
underscored the need to think about oral
health as strongly linked to the health of
the entire body.
Cheek swabs
Back in 2015, paper-co-author Garneau
— who earned her Ph.D from CSU —
and her team trained volunteer citizen
scientists to use large swabs to collect
cheek cells from museum visitors — a
naturally diverse population — who consented to the study. These trained citizen
scientists helped collect swabs from 366
individuals — 181 adults and 185 youth
aged 8 to 17.
The original impetus was to determine
whether and to what extent the oral
microbiome contributes to how people
taste sweet things. In collecting this data,
which was also reported in the paper, the
researchers noted more significant data
points around oral health habits.
Flossing and regular dental care
The study grouped people who flossed or
didn’t floss (almost everyone said they
brushed, so that wasn’t a useful data
point). Participants who flossed were
found to have lower microbial diversity
in their mouths than non-flossers. This
is most likely because of the physical removal of bacteria that could be causing
inflammation or disease.
Adults who had gone to a dentist in
the last three months had lower overall
microbial diversity in their mouths than
those who hadn’t gone in 12 months or
longer and had less of the periodontal
disease-causing oral pathogen, Trepone-
ma. This, again, was probably because of
dental cleaning removing rarer bacterial
taxa in the mouth. Youth tended to have
had a dental visit more recently than
adults.
Youth microbiomes differed among
males and females and by weight. Children considered obese according to their
body mass indices had distinct microbiomes as compared to non-obese children. The obese children also tended to
have higher levels of Treponema, revealing a possible link between childhood
obesity and periodontal disease.
Results also saw that people who lived
in the same household shared similar
oral microbiomes.
The study was made possible by a Science Education Partnership Award from
the National Institute of General Medical
Sciences, National Institutes of Health
(Award #R250D021909).
(Source: Colorado State University)
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Hygiene Tribune U.S. Edition | May 2020
INDUSTRY
B2
Barrier protection
critical with gloves
While caring for their patients, dental
and health care professionals are constantly exposed to bodily fluids that
may carry viruses and other infectious
agents. It is critical the gloves these professionals use provide the best possible
barrier protection, especially today.
Many types of gloves are available,
but it is important to know that not all
gloves have the same barrier capability,
depending on the type of material used.
For example, natural rubber latex gloves
have long been acknowledged for their
very effective barrier properties, while
non-latex gloves, such as vinyl (polyvinyl chloride), have inferior barrier capability as shown by numerous studies.
Quality, safety top priorities
Other synthetic gloves, such as nitrile
and polyisoprene, perform much better
than vinyl but are more costly, especially
polyisoprene gloves. Using gloves with
inferior capability could expose both the
patient and user to harmful infections.
Malaysia is the world’s largest medical
gloves exporter (latex and nitrile). Both
quality and users’ safety are of top priority to the nation’s glove industry. To this
end, a quality certification program (the
Standard Malaysian Glove, or the SMG)
has currently been formulated for latex
examination gloves.
Stringent technical specifications
All SMG-certified gloves must comply
with stringent technical specifications
to ensure the gloves are high in barrier
effectiveness, low in protein and low in
allergy risks, in addition to having excellent comfort, fit and durability — qualities that manufacturers of many synthetic gloves are trying to achieve.
Latex gloves are green products, derived from a natural and sustainable resource, and are environmentally friendly. (You can learn more by visiting www.
smgonline.biz or www.latexgloves.info).
The use of low-protein, powder-free
gloves has been demonstrated by many
independent hospital studies to markedly reduce the incidence of latex sensitization and allergic reactions in workplaces.
More important, latex-allergic individuals donning non-latex gloves can now
work alongside their coworkers wearing
the improved low-protein gloves without any heightened allergy concern.
However, for latex-allergic individuals,
it is still important they use appropriate
non-latex gloves, such as quality nitrile
and polyisoprene gloves, which provide
them with effective barrier protection.
Extensive array of brand, prices
Selecting the right gloves should be
an educated consideration to enhance
safety for both patients and users. For
decades, gloves made in Malaysia have
been synonymous with quality and excellence, and they are widely available
in an extensive array of brands, features
and prices. Dental gloves can be sourced
either factory direct (www.mrepc.com/
marketplace) or from established dental products distributors in the United
States and Canada.
(Source: MREPC)
Photo/Provided by
Malaysian Rubber
Export Promotion
Council
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