Holiday gift giving is all wrapped up!

Dec. 7, 2005
Here are some gift ideas for dental hygienists.

Do you want holiday gifts that will guarantee grateful gasps of glee? The following ideas are magnificent gifts for someone you love this holiday season. They are ideal for a colleague, associate, your boss, your practice, a thank you for a speaker, lobbyist, a referring dentist, and/or laboratory specialist. They can be displayed in a patient's welcome area or on any coffee table.

Hogbristles, Hucksters & Radioactive Paste is a nostalgic journey and a visual celebration of both dental history and postcards by authors Curtis P. Hamann, MD, CEO, president of SmartPractice, and Ben Z. Swanson, Jr., DDS.

This gorgeous coffee table book offers a fascinating look at the history of the postcard and its impact on communication in dentistry. Lavish, four-color images, memorable quotes, and inviting commentary tell a visual, irresistible tale of postcards as a means of communication, as a collectible, and as a vital piece of dental history.

The hard cover bound, 195-page book features more than 500 full-color postcard images, humorous and interesting dental facts, and a five century dental timeline.

This one of a kind book is ideal for gift giving! Hogbristles, Hucksters & Radioactive Paste is available now for just $49.95 (Item #101058) exclusively from SmartPractice. Call today to preorder at (800) 522-0800.

• Have you ever wanted to be on the cover of RDH? Well there is a perfect opportunity coming!

Mark Hartley has graciously donated the August 2006 Cover to the RDH Lister's Relief Fund. The chance to be on the cover will be raffled off via an online module. Wouldn't a ticket be a unique holiday gift for your favorite hygienist or office?

The Amy RDH Lister community is a generous global family. We give our time and talents to help each other out everyday on the list. Several of our members have had their lives devastated by Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath. They need our help now. We encourage every member to contribute in any way and as often as you can.

The Lister's Relief Fund Committee will be selling raffle tickets, and one lucky person will have their ticket number drawn in the early part of May so there is enough time to arrange for a photo shoot. One small stipulation: the cover models have to be photographed in the continental United States. The price of the tickets goes down with the more chances that you buy. The raffle module will be up soon on www.anneguignon.com.

One ticket costs $25; five tickets can be purchased for $100; 15 tickets are $250; and 40 tickets are $500.

• Ho, Ho, Happy Hanukkah and Merry Kwanzaa: It all adds up to the Lister Calendar!

The new 2006 RDH Lister Calendar is available for only $12. Please remember that $2 from each calendar will go towards the Lister Relief Fund that is in the process of becoming a non-profit organization. This calendar is perfect to hang up in your operatories at work to highlight how important RDHs are to dentistry. It can be the perfect discussion tool to educate your patients on how important dental hygienists are. Also, it's a great gift for the holidays to give to your dental hygiene friends!

As an added bonus, anyone who orders five or more will have their name put inside the calendar as a supporter. Also, if the order is five or more, your continuing education information (date/time/location/contact info) may be submitted for print, or your business name and address, or if a state component representative, your state association name will be printed inside.

The calendar may be viewed at www.amyrdhlisters.com.
The calendar may be purchased at www.amyrdhlisters.com.