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HYGIENE TRIBUNE
The World’s Dental Hygiene Newspaper · U.S. Edition
FRIDAY, JUNE 22, 2018 — Vol. 6, No. 1
www.dental-tribune.com
A bridge to excellence
I
t’s an exciting day here in Columbus. With more than 1,500 dental
hygienists from across the United
States gathered around the Greater
Columbus Convention Center to check
out the latest in cutting-edge education
and the best new products in the industry, there is no better place to be if you
are looking to enhance your skills in the
hygiene profession.
Especially today, when the doors to the
exhibit hall will open for the first time,
allowing access to all the top exhibitors
showcasing the most recent advancements in products and services in dental
hygiene and oral health care.
Make sure you head over to the Ansell/
Microflex booth (No. 219) to check out
the company’s MICRO-TOUCH DENTAGLOVE series. These examination gloves
were developed specifically for the needs
of dental professionals, according to
Ansell, are certified for use in oral examinations for patient safety and
peace of mind and are tested for biocompatibility and feature inner coatings
to promote hand health.
Another can’t miss is Designs for
Vision (booth No. 113), which is introducing an advanced photonic design that
provides uniform light distribution with
maximum intensity. The company’s
patent-pending headlights, available
in wired or wireless versions, optically
focus the light from the LED to provide
45 percent more light with uniform distribution.
A look at downtown Columbus. Photo/khaibit, freeimages.com
Cultural-competency lessons from dueling
‘Lady Liberties’ and candy-preference data
New C.E. requirements
for dental professionals
prompt range of views
on diversity
By Patricia Walsh, RDH
Editor in Chief, Hygiene Tribune
O
ur office has, in its staff room,
what I like to call the “temptation table.” During the
holidays, it is usually chock-ablock with sugar-laden treats. Some are
gifts from grateful patients, some are
from local specialists, and some are just
a coworker’s leftover Halloween candy.
There was a day this past season when a
dental assistant brought in a bag of Sour
Patch Kids. I stared at the bag thinking,
“Who eats these?”
I’ve never chomped on a Sour Patch
Kid, but I’ve never met a piece of chocolate I didn’t like. The age difference between me and the assistant wasn’t that
great, and we seemed to have similar
non-confection food tastes. It wasn’t until I went on the internet that I realized
how diverse and unexplainable the sweet
choices across America have become.
The website www.CandyStore.com
came up with a report by analyzing
10 years worth of sales data gathered
from the site’s customers, applying a
heavier weighting on data from the
months leading up to Halloween.
” See LESSONS, page 2
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Open up and say ahhhhhh
Hygiene Tribune U.S. Edition | June 22, 2018
HYGIENE TRIBUNE
PUBLISHER & CHAIRMAN
Torsten Oemus t.oemus@dental-tribune.com
New MICRO-TOUCH
DENTA-GLOVE series is
designed just for dentistry
Here in Columbus
PRESIDENT & CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
Eric Seid e.seid@dental-tribune.com
GROUP EDITOR
Kristine Colker k.colker@dental-tribune.com
To learn more about the MICRO-TOUCH
DENTA-GLOVE examination gloves and for
EDITOR IN CHIEF HYGIENE TRIBUNE
Patricia Walsh, RDH feedback@dental-tribune.com
free samples, stop by the Ansell/Microflex
booth, No. 219.
By Ansell Staff
MANAGING EDITOR
Robert Selleck r.selleck@dental-tribune.com
professionals, according to Ansell.
Ansell, a global leader in protection solutions and maker of the popular Microflex® and MICRO-TOUCH® examination
gloves, has launched its MICRO-TOUCH
DENTA-GLOVE® series, a highly diversified portfolio of dental examination
gloves, which, according to the company, outperform the competition.
MICRO-TOUCH DENTA-GLOVE is the
first series of examination gloves developed specifically for the needs of dental
Certified for use in oral exams
All products in the series are certified
for use in oral examinations for patient safety and peace of mind and are
designed with the most advanced film
technologies to meet the unique and demanding needs of the dental profession,
the company asserts.
The products are tested for biocompatibility and feature inner coatings
The MICRO-TOUCH DENTA-GLOVE series
includes ‘Blue Nitrile’ (pictured), ‘Magenta
Nitrile Allogel,’ ‘Green Neoprene’ and ‘Latex
Hydracare.’ Photo/Provided by Ansell
MANAGING EDITOR
Fred Michmershuizen
f.michmershuizen@dental-tribune.com
MANAGING EDITOR
Sierra Rendon s.rendon@dental-tribune.com
PRODUCT/ACCOUNT MANAGER
Humberto Estrada h.estrada@dental-tribune.com
to promote hand health.
For more details about MICRO-TOUCH
DENTA-GLOVE examination gloves or to
request a free sample, you can visit www.
ansell.com/DentaGlove.
PRODUCT/ACCOUNT MANAGER
Maria Kaiser m.kaiser@dental-tribune.com
PRODUCT/ACCOUNT MANAGER
Jordan McCumbee j.mccumbee@dental-tribune.com
CLIENT RELATIONS MANAGER
Leerol Colquhoun l.colquhoun@dental-tribune.com
EDUCATION DIRECTOR
Christiane Ferret c.ferret@dtstudyclub.com
ACCOUNTING COORDINATOR
Nirmala Singh n.singh@dental-tribune.com
“ LESSONS, Page 1
The CandyStore.com map is very surprising. Bubble gum is the No. 1 choice in
Montana. Milky Way tops the list in Mississippi. (Is everyone trying to quit smoking in Montana? And doesn’t a Milky Way
melt in that southern heat?) Perhaps preferences have to do with ad placement,
marketing dollars or the proximity to a
particular candy’s manufacturer?
Always the hygienist, I wanted to see
if decay-rate data might correspond to a
choice of “sticky sweet” vs. “chocolate” —
but I figured there were too many variables for adequate scientific comparison.
I’d like to believe that the Almond Joy
candy bar came out on top in my part of
the country because of the health benefits
of almonds. We’re all somehow balancing
the evil of sugar with a tiny bit of coconut
fiber and some healthful nuts. Or maybe
they just taste great.
Dental professionals in my state are
now required to obtain C.E. credit in
cultural competency. Even the smallest
towns in America can have a broad range
of ethnic differences and a divergence in
dental attitudes. A New England town of
7,000 might have a large Tibetan population because of a single volunteer having started work in Katmandu some 30
years ago. Ditto for a cluster of Somalian
refugees in Minnesota. A while back, I was
surprised while in Long Beach, Calif., to
see street signs in Khmer, the official language of Cambodia.
Giving non-English speaking patients
access to adequate, unbiased care is part
of our national health-care heritage. Helping non-English-speaking patients to understand disease and treatment has become a legal requirement.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services offers free online courses
that meet ADA/CERP cultural compe-
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EDITORIAL BOARD
Traversing Times Square, while avoiding turf wars between the many photo-op characters like
this ‘Lady Liberty,’ delivers a lesson in cultural competency for Hygiene Tribune Editor in Chief
Patricia Walsh, RDH. Photo/DTA
tency requirements. Find the courses at
www. thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov. There is
a dropdown menu under the “Education”
tab where you can select “Oral Health Provider.” Three courses provide culturally
and linguistically appropriate (CLAS) service guidelines for dental practices.
National CLAS standards are explained
on the website via video enactments,
statistics and personal stories. A pre-test
is offered at the outset of each course to
assist the health-care professional with
personal growth assessment.
It took me about two and a half hours
to complete all three courses, but keep
in mind, I was at one point putting the
whites into the dryer and starting up the
darks in the washer. Online courses are
such a great rainy-day activity, are they
not? You can start and stop an HHS course
at your own pace.
Upon completion of a quiz with a passing grade, the site will email you documentation of the continuing education
credits you earned.
I first heard about the cultural competency requirement after a weekend in
New York City. I live in a tiny town surrounded by pine trees — yet I somehow
made it from one end of Times Square to
the other happy and unscathed. Shouldn’t
that count for something, I thought? (Perhaps not.)
Apparently we live in a world of predatory capitalism. Even the Statue of Liberty impersonators who pose for tourist
photo ops were having a turf war. Fist
fights among the ‘“statues” have been
reported. There were multiple Wonder
Women wearing not much more than
body paint. Bigger-than-life Disney characters seem to come at me from nowhere
while I gazed down at my cell phone map.
Goofy darn near pushed me into a South
American flute player.
The colorful Ecuadorian just smiled
— a universal sign for “it’s OK” that transcends linguistic barriers.
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Dr. Jon Suzuki
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