Agenda:
Breakfast & registration – 8:00 a.m.
Lecture – 9:00 a.m.
Lunch – 12 p.m.
Dismissal – 3:00 p.m.
Tuition Cost:
$125.00 per person AIDA Members
$150.00 per person General Admission
*Includes Breakfast & Lunch
CE: 5 Lecture CE Credits
CE Code: 490
Prerequisite: None
Morning Course Title: Progressive Periodontal Therapy: A Comprehensive
Approach to Periodontal Management
Morning Course Description: Identifying disease at its earliest stages is essential to prevent the progression of oral and systemic diseases. Proper classification of a patient’s risk factors, and potential rate of progression enables the dental hygienist’s role to be fully maximized. This creates a practice that is in full alignment with the standard of care, resulting in raving patients and a thriving practice.
Morning Course Objectives:
- Access the 2017 AAP Periodontal Classifications and review case studies
- Discuss treatment recommendations based on the patient’s stage and grade
- Evaluate communication techniques to increase patient acceptance
- Discover common billing errors that prevent insurance coverage
- Review new and innovative ways to improve the chairside experience for both the patient and the clinician including voice recognition technologies, instruments, and new home care items that will optimize patient compliance
- Identify best practices of power instrumentation and the latest hand scaling techniques home
Afternoon Course Title: Guts, Gums & Glucose: The Missing Link for Optimal Health
Afternoon Course Description: It is estimated that over 80 percent of Americans are experiencing insulin resistance. One can have insulin resistance for up to 20 years before being pre-diabetic. Insulin resistance impacts every organ and body and is crucial to acute and chronic disease prevention. This course is designed to equip the dental professional to take a more comprehensive look at the root cause of oral and systemic inflammation. The clinician will obtain practical information for chairside implementation.
Afternoon Course Objectives:
- Define the bi-directional relationship between insulin resistance, diabetes, and periodontal disease
- Review strategies to elevate systemic inflammation manifesting orally
- Identify how periodontal pathogens affect gut health
- Discover oral products to promote symbiosis
Meet the Instructor: Amber Auger, MPH, RDH
Amber Auger, MPH, RDH, is a practicing dental hygienist with a mission to elevate the standard of care to determine the root cause of oral diseases. With over 17 years of experience, Amber specializes in creating practical systems to implement the latest oral science. Amber is the 2019 Sunstar Award of Distinction recipient, a contributor to RDH Magazine, a featured author for DentistryIQ, editor of the RDH Graduate newsletter, and the host of #AskAmberRDH. Amber is actively mentoring and educating fellow dental hygienists in their careers and in personal and career growth through Thrive in the Op® on-demand course curriculum and weekly live coaching sessions. Amber is also the owner of the Functional RDH® certification that provides hands-on and classroom lectures to identify the root cause of dental dysbiosis and ways in which to restore whole-body health based on the latest oral science.
