A Novel Dental Screening Scale for Tardive Dyskinesia Aims to Improve Detection

By Gina ShawA new half-page screening checklist developed at The University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth) at Houston School of Dentistry aims to put tardive dyskinesia (TD) recognition into routine dental practice.The Dental–Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (D-AIMS), developed by June M. Sadowsky, DDS, MPH, and Ben F. Warner, MS, DDS, MD, both professors of dentistry at UTHealth, distills the orofacial elements of the standard Abnormal Involuntary Movement Scale (AIMS) into