Selective Polishing: An Approach to Comprehensive Polishing.

Polishing has been an integral part of dental hygiene care since the beginning of the profession. As technology and services have evolved in dentistry, so has the approach to the polishing protocol. This course reviews the history of polishing, the current thinking on polishing, components of prophylaxis pastes, how prophylaxis pastes work, supplemental additives to prophylaxis pastes, and methods to educate patients on this topic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]