THE COMPETION HAS STARTED!!!

HYPAC’s annual fundraiser, the HYPAC Challenge, kicked off May 1, 2012 and runs through June 18th at 9:00 p.m. The annual competition is increasingly competitive as ADHA’s twelve districts (and staff) vie to raise the most money. All donations received during the nearly 50‐day competition count toward district totals. The winning district receives $300 toward a celebratory event. Over the years, districts utilized a number of fundraising strategies from securing numerous donations from HYPAC Supporters at the Champion level ($100.00 and above donations), to nearly 100% participation among the district delegation, to donations from ADHA members‐at-large. Your support is critical to ensuring ADHA is heard in Washington. (more…)

For more information on the Dental Hygienists’ Proposal (April 2012), click on  link.

For more information on the Dental Assistant Tier Model (March 2012), click on the following link.

New guidelines show that preventive antibiotics for routine dental visits are not necessary for most people and may do more harm than good.

http://www.aaos.org/about/papers/advistmt/1014.asp

“http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3047051(American heart)”: http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml?identifier=3047051

Chicago—March 1, 2007— The Washington Post, on Wednesday, February 28, 2007, reported that a twelve-year-old boy in the Washington D.C. area, Deamonte Driver, had died of complications resulting from an untreated dental abscess, after bacteria from the untreated tooth had spread to his brain.

Last fall the American Dental Association House of Delegates considered developing an allied membership category for all dental team members, including dental hygienists, on a national level.

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