BY RACHEL CRIPPIN CLARK
Ken Kornman, DDS, Ph.D., editor in chief of the Journal of Periodontology; Ray Williams, Dean, State University of New York at Stony Brook
School of Dental Medicine; AAP President David Cochran, DDS, Ph.D; and Thomas Van Dyke, Director, Postdoctoral Periodontology, Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine, who planned the 2008 Workshop on Inflammation.
Before you were even in kindergarten, you probably knew the importance of
brushing your teeth. Scrub gently in circles. Don’t forget the ones way in back.
Brush as long as it takes you to sing “Happy Birthday” twice. And as you got
older, flossing came into the picture. Flossing gets in between your teeth where
your brush can’t reach. It helps clean off dirty little things called bacteria. >>