Silky Sharma and Annie Walters share a love of evidence-based dental hygiene. Here they discuss hand instrumentation vs. powered instrumentation, among other topics.
Silky strives to narrow the gap between research and clinical practice. For hand instrumentation, research suggests that it's becoming less common with the emergence of new methods. But other evidence offsets that. Therefore, it's important for hygienists to review the research for themselves to figure out how the conclusions were reached, and to apply what's best for their patients.
Silky advises doing more than simply reading conclusions to research, and to look at the methodology behind the research. She explains her reasoning to her fellow clinical hygienists as she and Annie dive into this timely topic.
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