COURSES
Why do required courses have to be uninteresting, stale or redundant? Through an engaging and practical delivery style, this course provides an infection control update for the dental team that participants can actually describe as painless! Content includes a comprehensive review of standard infection control protocols as well as providing current and emerging, evidence-based infection control content. The course will also serve to aid the participant in reviewing and strengthening the infection control program in their office environment.
Learning Objectives:- Apply current evidence-based guidelines CDC guidelines and regulations related to infection control.
- Identify and discuss common diseases transmitted in the dental environment.
- Identify common dental healthcare practitioner breaches in infection control and how to better comply with established guidelines.
- Develop office protocols to address prevention of disease transmission.
- Practice in a manner consistent with maintaining a safe working environment and preventing disease transmission.
To treat or not to treat? What if? So what? These questions are critical when preparing for the worst and working for the best in the area of health history review and basic medical emergency management in the dental environment. Patients are not fainting any differently, but what IS new? Prevention strategies, stress management, pharmaceutical concerns, systemic conditions and evidence-based decision making in emergency management are critical topics to be covered. Through an engaging and systematic approach, this course provides a concise and practical update of prevention strategies and management protocols for medical emergencies encountered in the dental office environment.
Learning Objectives:- Identify medical emergency prevention strategies applicable to all patient interactions.
- Assess office protocols for prevention of medical emergencies.
- Identify medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office environment.
- Implement management strategies for medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office environment.
- Evaluate office protocols and emergency drugs and equipment for adequacy in prevention and management of medical emergencies commonly encountered in the dental office environment.
In today's dental office environment practitioners encounter patients who are currently under the influence of controlled substances or present with a history of abuse. The opioid crisis creates an even greater challenge to care planning and patient management. This course provides an overview of common abused substances incorporating screening and prevention techniques as well as identification of oral conditions indicating abuse history. Dental and dental hygiene care plan modifications and referral is included to support the oral and systemic health needs of this patient population.
Learning Objectives- Assess dental hygiene patients for substance abuse disorders, recognizing general, extraoral and intraoral oral signs and symptoms.
- Develop a dental hygiene diagnosis based upon assessment findings related to substance abuse.
- Develop a dental hygiene care plan for patients suffering from substance abuse disorders.
- Contribute assessment findings to the dental care plan for patients suffering from substance abuse disorders.
- Implement dental hygiene care to accommodate for or address substance abuse related conditions.
- Assess office policies for management of patients suspected of abusing substances.
- Discuss legal and ethical implications of treating patients suspected of abusing.
- Investigate local resources to assist in care for those patients involved in abusing substances.
What is new in the Dental Hygiene Process of Care? What assessment techniques and tools are available in assisting with the dental hygiene diagnosis or supporting the dental diagnosis? How do these new tools affect our treatment plans. What is new in instrumentation, both hand and powered, to make our jobs easier while helping the patient attain or maintain optimum oral health. How do we keep ourselves healthy ergonomically? What are some emerging technologies that would benefit our practices and our patients? Dental Hygiene...not "just" a cleaning.
Learning Objectives:- Review the Dental Hygiene Process of Care (Assessment, Diagnosis, Planning, Implementation, Evaluation, Documentation).
- Relate how the Dental Hygiene Process of Care integrates with the dental care planning process for positive patient outcomes.
- Relate current, evidence-based treatment protocols to daily Dental Hygiene practice especially related to periodontal disease and caries risk assessment and management.
- Review hand and powered instrumentation techniques and tools to provide non-surgical periodontal therapy.
- Identify ergonomic or career planning techniques and strategies for a long-range, positive professional future.
- Share challenges and celebrations from daily dental hygiene practice with peers.
The role of non-surgical periodontal therapy in management of periodontal pathogens and long-term maintenance of oral function is critical in today’s dental hygiene practice. This course will follow the Dental Hygiene Process of Care for periodontal diseases assessment, diagnosis, planning, implementation, evaluation and documentation. Evidence-based treatment protocols and decision-making related to periodontal diseases will be discussed.
Learning Objectives:- Define and discuss periodontal assessment and the new AAP Classification System of Periodontal and Peri-implant Diseases and Conditions.
- Identify the role of biofilm and periodontal pathogens in patient treatment protocols.
- Apply evidence-based treatment decisions related to nonsurgical periodontal therapy.
- Identify current treatment modalities related to non-surgical periodontal therapy.
- Discuss the oral/systemic link as it relates to periodontal diseases.
- Describe the role of the dental hygienist in assessment and treatment of periodontal conditions.