New Jersey
Dental Hygienists' Association

LINKS:
CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR ORAL HEALTH

America's Toothfairy

American Dental Hygienists’ Association Institute for Oral Health

Oral Cancer Foundation
In NJ you can assist children is obtaining needed oral healthcare - volunteer and/or contribute with:
KinderSmile








LINKS: RESOURCES YOU CAN USE AT WORK

ADHA reports that the University of Florida, Department of Psychiatry has put together two videos showing both an effective and ineffective motivational interviewing method for tobacco cessation. Feel free to use these videos in your tobacco cessation teaching efforts.
Effective
Ineffective

NIDCR Resources

NIDCR Patient Resource on Head & Neck Radiation

NIDCR Dental Caries

NIDCR Periodontal Disease

ADA Resources include practice guidelines, chairside charts and more

ADA Center for Evidence Based Dentist


Diabetes Publications You Can Use
The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) and its partners are Changing the Way Diabetes Is Treated by working together to help people better understand HOW to make the necessary changes in their day-to-day life in order to prevent type 2 diabetes, manage their diabetes to prevent complications, and live healthier lives

Hot off the Press! The following NDEP publications are now available:
Take Care of Your Heart. Manage Your Diabetes.
It's Not Too Late to Prevent Diabetes


If you’re looking for easy-to-read materials for kids and teens, NDEP’s tip sheets are also available:

How to Lower Your Risk for Type 2 Diabetes

Be Active.

Order or download your copy today. http://ndep.nih.gov/publications





New Jersey Society of Periodontology & Implant Dentistry

Click here to see Diabetes Awareness resources on the NJSPID website



PEDIATRICS

NJDHA has a variety of projects to improve the oral health of pediatric patients.  Be sure to visit the Pediatrics webpage to see more...



GERIATRICS

Be sure to visit the webpage dedicated to the NJ Coalition on Oral Health for the Aging



Working Together to Manage Diabetes Toolkit

Help your patients with diabetes get the care they need. Too many people with diabetes are not getting annual foot, eye, and oral exams, or managing their medications. You have the power to change that. The enhanced Working Together to Manage Diabetes Toolkit empowers pharmacists, podiatrists, optometrists, dentists, and other providers to deliver more integrated care for patients with, or at risk for, diabetes. When you work in tandem with other health care providers, you become more effective at recognizing the early danger signs of diabetes, decreasing the risk of complications, and managing medication therapy.

Click here to see the new toolkit.




LINKS: HIPAA RESOURCES

HIPAA Facts for Professionals











If you have diabetes, flu vaccination is especially important for you.




Protect those you care for. Get your flu vaccine and recommend it to your patients.




Learn how to better protect yourselves from Infection transmission in the dental setting



A Journalist's View of US Dental Crisis
Ten years ago, 12-year-old Deamonte Driver died from a brain infection after his mother couldn't find a dentist to treat his tooth abscess. Covering patients' struggle to get dental care drove, Mary Otto, author of the newly released Teeth: The Story of Beauty, Inequality, and the Struggle for Oral Health in America-has spent years reporting on dental care in America.  READ MORE

The book can be purchased through any online bookseller (such as Amazon, Barnes & Nobel, etc)  








LINK TO: ebd.ada.org



Everyone With Diabetes Counts (EDC) 2018 
- A free Opportunity for Your Patients 

Free diabetes education workshops are available to your patients through EDC’s program, which is a national initiative of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The program offers free self-management workshops that are open to people with Medicare who have diabetes, their family members and caregivers. Dental offices are invited to participate by sharing this opportunity with their patients. 

Click Here to Read More