MDDS Presents: HANDS-ON Advanced Scaling Workshop: Elevate Your Career to a New Level! – Session 2 (Repeat)

MDDS Presents: HANDS-ON Advanced Scaling Workshop: Elevate Your Career to a New Level! – Session 2 (Repeat) 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.

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.