Lynne H. Slim, RDH, BSDH, MSDH

Lynne Slim is an award-winning writer and a nationally recognized key opinion leader in dental hygiene. In addition, she is a monthly columnist for Modern Hygienist online magazine. Lynne won a Mentor of Distinction award at ADHA’s Annual Session, 2012.

As President of Perio C Dent, Lynne is passionate about coaching dental hygienists and general dentists in creating outstanding diagnosis-driven dental hygiene departments dedicated to providing superior, high quality service to patients.

Lynne coaches conventional dental hygienists in periodontal disease risk assessment and state-of-the-art, non-surgical periodontal therapy, ultrasonic instrumentation, and other advanced hygiene initiatives.

Lynne has been published in Dental Economics, RDH, Access and the Journal of Dental Hygiene on non-surgical periodontal therapy and other topics of interest to the general dentist/auxiliary team, including a new approach to team training for the 21st century. Lynne also applies her expertise in advanced hygiene initiatives as the periodontal therapy columnist for RDHmagazine.

Lynne is dedicated to evidence-based dental hygiene and has conducted research and taught research methodology to baccalaureate dental hygiene students in a private dental school. Lynne also won two first place journalism awards and is dedicated to writing about evidence-based dentistry and dental hygiene.

Updated: Dec 2018