Innovations In Dentistry CE For Entire Dental Team (Aug 19, 2023)

Innovations In Dentistry CE For Entire Dental Team is organized by The Western Society of Periodontology (WSP) and will be held on Aug 19, 2023, at The Davenport Grand, Autograph Collection, Spokane, Washington, United States of America.

Description:
CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS AND IMPROVE YOUR OUTCOMES An Update on Protocols, Products, and Treatment Options
Course Description:
Updated protocols assist us in determining our patient’s specific needs. As we move towards a more collaborative profession, we need to embrace these updates to identify those needs. We are presented with continuous challenges of new advances in products and technology and their use in dentistry and are in need of information to determine when and how to add them to our armamentaria. As professionals providing health services, our perception of product use along with protocols needs to be discussed with our team as well as the interdisciplinary referrals we have. The process of care (assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation, and documentation) requires a comprehension of protocols, products, and treatment options and how they are to be utilized.

Learning Objectives:
• Modify diagnosis assistance with the team and rationale for changes in assessment forms and diagnostic tools
• Distinguish which new-to-market products should be brought into your practice
• Integrate materials and products for a variety of uses in the dental office from infection control, dental hygiene therapy, oral cancer screening, patient communication, and instrumentation
• Develop effective communication with patients and assist in the business of the dental practice
• Formulate strategies that incorporate efficient inpatient treatment for more productive scheduling

Breaking Through the Dental Benefit Code Ceiling:
Course Description:
With the yearly changes made to the CDT dental codes, it can be challenging for a dental professional how to advise patients what procedures their insurance carriers will be covered or to help their patient file their own dental claims. This program will discuss a variety of procedures like desensitizing, and dental creams/ varnishes, and how they can be profitable for a dental practice.

Learning Objectives:
• Gain an understanding of groundbreaking results that contribute to the evidence for the application of varnish with chemotherapeutic fluoride treatment.
• Attendees will be educated about the method of applying Ormocer containing desensitizing treatments and Nano-hydroxy filled tooth creams.
• Review and understand the different desensitizing & indirect restoration codes used in today’s dental practices.
• Review correct narratives to use in submitting a successful insurance base dental claim.

Hygienists’ Role: Implant Maintenance, Home-Care, and Disease Treatment

Course Description:
Hygienists are key to preventing peri-implant complications with professional in-office assessment, maintenance, and home-care recommendations. For long-term implant success, clinicians need to detect early signs of implant complications and diagnose any complications to provide early intervention. Hygienists will be able to implement professional in-office maintenance treatment and recommend preventative home-care regimens for patients. This course will follow Susan’s new textbook: Peri-Implant Therapy for the Dental Hygienist: Second Edition.

Learning Objectives:
• Current research protocols, tools, and treatments for the prevention of peri-implant disease.
• Detect: professionally assess and monitor all forms of all dental implants
• Diagnose: Understand early intervention guidelines based on the American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) peri-implant soft and hard deficiencies
• Treat: professional in-office maintenance and disease treatment
• Prevention: Importance of home-care recommendations for all forms of implant-borne restorations/prostheses.

Methodology: 
These presentations cover new and relevant researched information for all forms of implant maintenance and home care. AGD format and references are listed at the bottom of the slides and on the resource page at the end of the presentation. A wide-screen PowerPoint format, audience participation questions answered at the end, and expanded data based on my published articles and textbook: Peri-Implant Therapy for the Dental Hygienists 2022.

Pockets, Paradigms, and Protocols: A Revolutionary Approach to Precision Periodontics

Course Description:
Despite our best efforts to study, treat and manage diseases of the periodontium, research continues to indicate an increasing prevalence of oral inflammatory conditions, unpack challenges with our existing protocols, and challenge the dental profession with paradigm shifts. The ‘gold standard’ of periodontal disease management is pivoting as patients are looking to non-invasive approaches to safely, efficiently, and definitively treat disease and subsequently promote health. The ever-changing environment of healthcare delivery is now focusing on the convergence of precision medicine, implementation science, and learning healthcare system studies to synergistically improve clinical health outcomes. While our medical colleagues have adapted these paradigm shifts into avant-garde approaches to patient care, dentistry is now called upon to become part of this trailblazing movement. Join periodontal hygienist and international speaker Katrina M Sanders as she discusses a revolutionary concept of ‘Precision Periodontics’, critically examining the current landscape of oral inflammation with a deep focus on contemporary interventions aimed to transform non-invasive care for the periodontal patient, improve clinical outcomes and optimize management of periodontal diseases.

Learning Objectives:
• Define implementation science and identify how this emerging discipline is focusing on treatment strategies
• Discuss precision medicine and the evidence-based interventions available to improve clinical outcomes
• Examine the learning healthcare system and its influence on healthcare delivery systems
• Evaluate paradigm shifts in the provision of periodontics and the trends in inflammatory management for the dental professional
• Review the results of optimal therapy in a non-invasive approach to treating periodontal disease
• Examine case selection in integrating an early and precise approach to advanced periodontics
• Discuss anti-inflammatory products for the adjunctive treatment of periodontitis

Adjoining Course and Workshop
LECTURE: Diode Lasers Used in the Hygiene Practice
Course Description:
The Diode laser has become the most utilized laser in dentistry today, especially in the hygiene department. Diode lasers are soft-tissue lasers that have many advantages over traditional surgical and therapeutic techniques including less pain, faster healing and preciseness, bacterial reduction, along with no contraindications. Some of the most commonly used Diode laser procedures in the hygiene department are Laser Bacterial Reduction (LBR), Laser Assisted Periodontal Therapy (LAPT), hemostasis, and the treatment of oral lesions (aphthous ulcers/herpetic lesions), This course will present common diode laser procedures, techniques used in the hygiene department, and how to incorporate lasers into your practice.

Learning Objectives:
• Identify the laser procedures and benefits most commonly used in the hygiene department
• Understand the laser device and settings
• Discuss tips and techniques to get the best results with your patients
• Describe strategies for communicating and educating patients about lasers

HANDS-ON WORKSHOP: Diode Lasers Used in the Hygiene Practice
Course Description:
The Diode laser has become the most utilized laser in dentistry today, especially in the hygiene department. This course will give you hands-on techniques used in hygiene practice. Mechanisms, safety, tips, and protocols will be reviewed, and attendees will have an opportunity to demonstrate the use of the lasers for Laser Bacterial Reduction, Laser Assisted Periodontal Therapy, Hemostasis, and Aphthous Ulcers/Herpetic lesions on the porcine jaw.

Learning Objectives:
• Operate the laser device understanding basic biologic interactions
• Demonstrate competency in using the laser with hygiene procedures
• Understand the difference in the procedures of Laser Bacterial Reduction and Laser Assisted Periodontal Therapy
• Utilize and understand the laser safety protocols
• Understand the laser device, tips, and settings