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Dental hygienists are divided on the 5-mm pocket, so what do we do about it?

17 August 2026 · 14:34

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Walk into enough dental practices and you hear the same reasoning: That 5-mm pocket has been there for years, the patient is doing fine, and the team knows them. Kelly Tanner, RDH, PhD -- DrBicuspid.com's hygiene editor -- has heard this many times. She has questions about it. In this episode of The DrBicuspid.com Podcast, Editor-in-Chief Kevin Henry sits down with Tanner to work through what the 5-mm pocket…

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