cleaning hands

The process of washing and cleaning hands aims to reduce the numbers of microbes and microorganisms on the surface of the hands before dental personnel begin their dental procedure, and… Read more »

Infection control

Dentists and their assistants were accustomed to performing dental procedures in the 1980s without the use of gloves and medical masks, but they took care after the outbreak of HIV… Read more »

The first assembly

The first association of dental assistants was founded in 1923 by Juliet Southard and was called the American Association of Dental Assistants and is still in existence to this day…. Read more »

dental assistant

The pioneering dentist, Charles Edmund Kells, appointed his first dental assistant. Male dentists initially dominated the field of dentistry, but after the introduction of the profession of dental assistant, women… Read more »

dental assistant

Dental assistants assist the dentist in providing dental treatment more efficiently, by preparing the patient for treatment, sterilizing instruments, passing instruments during the procedure, holding suction devices, preparing dental radiographs,… Read more »

Electrocardiography

The electrical activity of the heart can be recorded using surface electrodes on the surface of the body. This tracking of electrical signals is called an electrocardiogram, or ECG, for… Read more »

blood tests

Blood tests play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of many cardiovascular conditions. Tropin is a cardiac biomarker that is very sensitive to impaired cardiac blood supply, being… Read more »

Diagnosis

Heart disease is diagnosed by taking a medical history and physical examination, and some further investigations include blood tests, echocardiography, electrocardiogram, and cardiogram. Other procedures, such as cardiac catheterization, may… Read more »