Let's Talk Hygiene

Fall Connection

Therapeutic Challenges of Clinical Dental Hygiene

8-12pm

Please join us and other dental hygienists from your community as we meet to learn, share, and problem solve together.  Participants will engage in facilitated conversations to help foster professional friendships, learn new strategies and support one another!

Together let's develop solutions for our most frequent and frustrating clinical challenges.  We will review topics like time efficiency, instrument management, medical considerations and treatment planning.  In the process, we will learn ways to make our days less stressful, more efficient, and have the tools necessary to navigate even the most puzzling dental challenges! 

At the end of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Assess the biggest stressors of their day
• Determine time management based on patient assessment and care
• Gain an understanding of the protocols and treatments for periodontal medicine
• Review medical considerations, premed needs, and wait times for dental care
• Select appropriate instruments for specific treatment and tooth anatomy
• Navigate the doctor exam
• Learn how to more effectively communicate and present treatment needs, helping patients find value in their treatment
• Review dental hygiene CDT codes and accurate reporting
• Recommend appropriate therapeutic aids/home care products

Presenters:  MDHA President, Beth DePalma, RDH, IPDH              & Vice President, Jaime Brooks, RDH, BSDH

4 Cat 1 CEUs

To Probe or Not to Probe...That is the Question

1-5pm

An interactive evidence based course reviewing best practices for implant maintenance, hygiene and answering that ever so often asked question, "Do I need to probe an implant?"

A.    Overview and Intro-

B.    Stages of implant placement and restoration

C.    Materials used, types of implants and abutments commonly seen

D.   Single tooth, multi tooth implant supported prosthetics, full arch replacement, implant supported dentures

E.    Common implant complications-

F.    Mucositis

a)   Clinical signs and symptoms                                                                  

b)   Treatment and recall considerations

G.    Peri-Implantitis

a)  Clinical signs and symptom                                            

b)  Treatment and recall considerations

c)  When to refer back for treatment and evaluation by specialist

H.   Excess Cement- evaluate radiographs and clinically

I.    Excessive Occlusal Forces- frequent checking of occlusion by the          DDS at recall visits

J.    Hygiene recall-

K.   Mechanical debridement of the implant/abutment

a)    Choice of armamentarium

(i) Ultrasonics

(ii) Hand instruments

(iii) Titanium, nylon, Stainless Steel

(iv)  Air polishing

L.  Lasers

(i)  Diode

(ii)  Yag-LNAP

M.  Chemotherapeutics and use of systemic antibiotics

N.  Homecare recommendations for patients

a)  Power brush and tips

b)  Oral Irrigators

c)   Interproximal devices

d)  Floss types and techniques

O.  Q & A and discussion

Objectives

After this course participants will be able to:

-Identify stages of disease and treatment involving dental implants

- Effectively debride and maintain dental implants with appropriate armamentarium

-Establish appropriate hygiene recall intervals for implant maintenance

-Identify implant complications that may warrant referral back to specialist

Presenter:  Traci L. Dempsey, RDH, IPDH   

4 Cat 1 CEUs

Come join the FUN!!