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RE: Need Help Breaking Kiddo's Thumb Habit - Any Tricks?
If you try a reward chart, I’d reward a small step she can choose, not a whole day without sucking. For example, she could earn a mark for trying the bedtime routine she picked. That keeps the focus on effort rather than...
RE: How do you interpret bleeding during periodontal maintenance?
Less bleeding is encouraging when it occurs alongside reduced swelling and tenderness, stable repeat probing depths, and no attachment loss. By itself, though, it does not establish that a site is stable. A site can ble...
RE: How do you interpret bleeding during periodontal maintenance?
The trend matters more than one bleeding point. Bleeding confined to one or two sites can reflect local plaque or irritation, but if the same sites bleed at successive maintenance visits, especially with increasing probi...