The Need for Improved Surgical Site Management.

Wound care is an important part of patient care in almost every discipline of medicine. Oral procedures performed with scalpels, curettes, periotomes, osteotomes, lasers, and various other instruments create surgical wounds. Appropriately dressing surgical site wounds is considered a basic principle of proper surgical procedure,1 allowing for better healing, greater patient comfort, and fewer complications.

Digital radiography: more than meets the eye.

Digital radiography allows dentists to record and view information that cannot be detected by the human eye, which provides the ability to more accurately examine, assess, and diagnose patients. This article discusses the components necessary for capturing detailed and accurate information with digital radiography and describes the capabilities, advantages, and possible disadvantages of using imaging software in the dental practice.