Coast Dental Blog Posts

This week I’m so excited! We’re going to be talking about some of the new concepts, in periodontal diagnostics and this is going to kick off an awesome conversation about some of the changes that we’re starting to see from the American Academy of Periodontology.

This week, we’re going to take a look at the current prevalence of diseases of the periodontium. And you guys, I’m going to try to not get passionate about it, but I can’t promise that I’m not going to get passionate about this because this is a topic that is extremely near and dear to my heart.

That’s right! I’m going to be integrating a new segment from time to time called Weird Facts, where we’re going to take a look at something that honestly is just weird, but something that we need to have a conversation about you guys, as clinicians!

This week we’re talking about SARS-CoV-2 and the mouth. You guys, a new research study that came out of the National Institute of Health is now indicating that scientists are finding evidence that SARS-CoV-2, the virus responsible for causing COVID-19 has been found to infect the mouth’s cells.

Oh, my gosh, you guys, we are back and this week we’re picking up the conversation we started last week about new concepts in periodontal diagnostics.

All right, all right, all right, you guys, we are back! Part three of introducing new concepts in periodontal diagnostics. We are looking at the differences between the 2017 AAP Staging and Grading that we know today and what our previous classification system was in 1999.

This week’s episode continues the conversation around oral anatomy, and for all of my dental geeks out there who love to geek out on this type of content, this episode is for you! Today, we’re going to be talking about the cells of the oral mucosa.

Fast Facts – Perio Edition Episode 16   [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]This week, we are continuing our conversation

Fast Facts – Perio Edition Episode 17   [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]This week, we are continuing the conversation

Fast Facts – Perio Edition Episode 4   [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 –

This week, we are continuing the anatomy conversation, and this time we are moving into discussing the alveolar process. The next two episodes, we’ll talk about the different parts of the alveolar process, but to begin, we understand the alveolar process itself constitutes the part of the maxilla and the mandible that form as well as support the sockets of the teeth, also known as the alveoli.

Whoo, today we’re going to focus on the attached gingiva and this is an important gingiva for us to take a look at for many reasons, it’s called attached not because it’s not single, not on dating apps, but rather because it’s not movable. It is attached, firmly bound into the bone and cementum by connective tissue fibers and it’s important to note that attached gingiva is able to withstand the forces from toothbrushing and chewing.