MDDS Presents: HANDS-ON Advanced Scaling Workshop: Elevate Your Career to a New Level! – Session 1

MDDS Presents: HANDS-ON Advanced Scaling Workshop: Elevate Your Career to a New Level! – Session 1 is organized by Metro Denver Dental Society (MDDS) and will be held on Apr 10, 2026 at Metro Denver Dental Society & Mountain West Dental Institute, Denver, Colorado, United States of America.

Description:
This course will provide a hands-on scaling experience designed to enhance scaling efficacy and proper ergonomics to prevent work related pain, musculoskeletal injuries, and disability.  Through video clips and hands-on participation coupled with the use of instruments with wider handles, attendees will learn advanced reinforced scaling techniques in every quadrant on a typodont model attached to a portable simulation unit.  Attendees will receive personalized instruction while scaling during the workshop to improve upon instrumentation skills, and postural ergonomics for career enhancement and musculoskeletal protection from injury.

Course participants will receive a copy of the book Reinforced Periodontal Instrumentation and Ergonomics for the Dental Care Provider.

Objectives

• Demonstrate an ideal grasp, advanced instrumentation scaling techniques, ideal fulcrum rests and optimal postural ergonomics while working to enhance scaling precision, prevention and protection
• How to protect their hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, neck and back while scaling to prevent injuries that can lead to career ending disability
• Demonstrate ideal postural strategies around the patient chair for every quadrant while scaling in a seated posture or while standing to prevent prolonged static postures which can lead to career-ending injuries

Important Note: Due to the focus of the exercises in this workshop, attendance is limited to only practicing dental hygienists.