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This week we’re going to unpack weird facts and this is coming to us from a study from Genesis publications. This weird fact is kind of an interesting postulation, if you will. This study, entitled The covid-19 Pathway, proposes the fact that there could be an alternative route of sars-cov-2 infection.

This week kicks off the conversation about taking a look at the American Periodontology and the way that their World Federation workshop in 2017 changed the way we were expected to look at, diagnose, and address diseases of the periodontium.

Fast Facts – Perio Edition Episode 3   [Andrew Johnston, RDH]   Welcome back,  everyone. You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Perio Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Katrina Sanders.   [Katrina Sanders, RDH]   Hello and welcome

Perio Edition Episode 13   [Andrew Johnston, RDH]Welcome back,  everyone. You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Perio Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Katrina Sanders.   [Katrina Sanders, RDH]Today’s episode, we are continuing the conversation around oral anatomy

Fast Facts – Perio Edition Episode 5   [Andrew Johnston, RDH]Welcome back,  everyone. You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Perio Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Katrina Sanders.   [Katrina Sanders, RDH]Hello and welcome to Fast Facts –

Fast Facts: Perio Edition Episode 7   [Andrew Johnston, RDH]Welcome back,  everyone. You are listening to another episode of Fast Facts- Perio Edition brought to you by A Tale of Two Hygienists in partnership with DentistRX. And now, please welcome your host, Katrina Sanders.   [Katrina Sanders, RDH]Welcome back to another episode of Fast Facts:

In this episode, we’re going to talk about orange complex bacteria. Now, a few things to know about our orange complex bacteria. According to Socransky, your orange complex bacteria are intermediate colonizers or moderate risk bacteria. These bacteria are what we call facultative anaerobes, which just simply means that they can live with or without oxygen because they metabolize energy, either aerobically or anaerobically.

This week, we are going to be stirring up, pun intended, a little bit of drama with regards to some of the things that we understand about premedication guidelines, particularly for heart infections. Now, I know what you’re all thinking, really, Ginger, this is what we’re doing this week. And I get it because we’ve had quite an evolution haven’t we of premedication guideline shifts over the past decade or so.

This week, we’re going to unpack some of the things that we understand with regards to antibiotic premedication. Of note, for a long time, we have had a lot of shifts in what’s been going on with regards to premedication guidelines. And now we’re going to start looking at over the next few weeks some information about how premedication guidelines have continued to evolve in our profession.

This week we are looking at the 2017 guidelines from JADA, offering guidance for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons. Now, while we understand that there has been an incredible evolution in the utilization of prophylactic antibiotics prior to dental procedures, we also understand that not all patients present with the same physiologic conditions.

So let’s talk about the CEJ or the relationship of cementum and enamel. So we know that the relationship of cementum to enamel margins are going to vary. Many of us learned in hygiene school, for example, that in anywhere between 60 to 65 percent of the population, we’re going to see a situation where the cementum overlaps the enamel.

You guys, we are still on the anatomy train and we are talking about bone and this is a very particularly important episode because I know when we start talking about bone, start talking about the morphology, as well as, of course, the composition of bone, that it is imperative for us as clinicians to understand this morphology.