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a record of a patient's oral health, general health, medical conditions, and medical care, including surgeries and medication use, allergies, childhood diseases, radiographic history, and personal dental care, both past and present.

Dental Histories

In anatomy, a fissure is a groove, natural division, deep furrow, elongated cleft, or tear in various parts of the body also generally called a sulcus, or in the brain a sulcus.

Fissure

Working experience of Intraoral proceedures. Intaoral proceedures are those that are situated, occurring, or performed within the mouth

Intraoral

Plaque control: the removal of dental plaque on a regular basis and the prevention of its accumulation on the teeth and adjacent gingival surfaces.

Plaque Control

Periodontitis, also known as gum disease and pyorrhea, is a set of inflammatory diseases affecting the tissues surrounding the teeth.

Periodontal Disease knowledge

An instrument that is commonly handheld. An instrument is a tool or implement, especially one for delicate or scientific work.

Hand Instruments

A patient is any recipient of health care services.

Patient Treatment

The medical history or (medical) case history of a patient is information gained by a physician by asking specific questions, either of the patient or of other people who know the person and can give suitable information, with the aim of obtaining information useful in formulating a diagnosis and providing medical care to the patient.

Medical History Review

Performs routine dental care, including cleaning teeth and examining patients for signs of oral diseases, and educates patients about good oral health practices. Assists dentists in more complex dental procedures. Works in dental offices under the supervision of dentists and other dental health specialists. 

Dental Hygienist

Requires Oral Diseases knowledge. Oral and maxillofacialdiseses refer to the diseases of the mouth (oral cavity or stoma), jaws (maxillae or gnath) and related structures such as salivary glands, temporomandibular joints, facial muscles and perioral skin (the skin around the mouth).

Oral Diseases knowledge

a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners

Dental Procedures

Working experience of Dental Calculus. In dentistry, calculus or tartar is a form of hardened dental plaque. It is caused by precipitation of minerals from saliva and gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) in plaque on the teeth. This process of precipitation kills the bacterial cells within dental plaque, but the rough and hardened surface that is formed provides an ideal surface for further plaque formation. This leads to calculus buildup, which compromises the health of the gingiva (gums).

Dental Calculus

Nitrous oxide, commonly known as laughing gas or nitrous, is a chemical compound, an oxide of nitrogen with the formula N 2O. At room temperature, it is a colorless non-flammable gas, with a slightly metallic scent and taste.

Nitrous Oxide

Orthodontia, also known as orthodontics and dentofacial orthopedics, is a specialty field of dentistry.

Orthodontics

Preparing a treatment room, which is a room in a patient care unit, usually in a hospital, in which various treatments or procedures requiring special equipment are performed, such as removing sutures, draining a hematoma, packing a wound, or performing an examination.

Location	Median Salary
Brooklyn, NY	$36.73
National	$34.01
Location +/-	7% Higher Search another salary

Location	Median Salary
Brooklyn, NY	$36.73
National	$34.01
Location +/-	7% Higher Search another salary

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