2024 Courses and Events

Course #: 4160
Date: 12/02/2024
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Course Info: Half Day
Speaker(s):
Amber Auger, M.P.H., R.D.H.

Room: 1E20
Topic: Periodontics
Tuition: $265.00
Credits: 3
Recommended For:
Dentists, Hygienists, Assistants, Administrative Staff, Spouse

Description:

It can be highly discouraging when patients continue to have cavities despite improvements in their oral health. This can disrupt their oral health philosophy and create the belief that “cavities are normal for me” or even “I just have soft teeth.”  Dentists and dental hygienists have the unique opportunity to identify each patient’s specific risks and provide treatment recommendations accordingly. The best way to do this is through salivary pH testing, specifically because the pH of our patient’s saliva plays a vital role in their oral cavity’s hard and soft tissue health status.

Learn to:

• review how the pH of the mouth influences soft and hard tissue oral diseases
• discover powerful communication skills to increase the patient’s ownership of their current oral health
• evaluate pH testing for your office and how to implement it into a patient’s preventive visits, and compare salivary tests to test periodontal pathogens
• compare chairside and homecare technologies to reduce the patients risk of hard and soft tissue disease