Breathe LIFE back into your Dental Hygiene Appointment with Guided Biofilm Therapy

Overview

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This Course is a Live Webinar and will be live-streamed:

7:30 pm ET, 6:30 pm CT, 5:30 pm MT, 4:30 pm AZ, 4:30 pm PT

Overview: Have you ever thought that there may be a better way to provide dental hygiene care to our patients? Have you ever asked yourself why we are suffering from an oral health crisis in America in the year 2023? This course will help to provide a comprehensive approach to breathing LIFE back into the dental hygiene appointment using Guided Biofilm Therapy (GBT). This course will discuss utilizing the GBT compass with your patients as a treatment for oral and systemic health.  Sarah discusses the disconnect between dentistry and medicine as she helps to align the goals of the Dental Hygiene appointment and discussing the importance of effectively removing biofilm as the culprit that induces an inflammatory burden on the body.  Sit back and listen as Sarah explains how to integrate the eight steps of Guided Biofilm Therapy into the Dental Hygiene appointment. Sarah has been using the guided biofilm therapy with exceptional results. Listen as she shares her tips and tricks on what to say to the patient and brings her expertise and knowledge on what we can do to enlighten our patients on the connection of oral health and systemic health.

 

Objectives:

1. Recognize the importance of the Dental Hygienist in caries management and periodontal protocols

2. Identify the goals of the Dental Hygiene appointment utilizing the guided biofilm therapy compass

3. Reflect on oral health/systemic health improving strategies by utilizing disclosing agents and erythritol during the dental hygiene appointment

4. Revise the dental hygiene appointment and empower hygienists to practice at the top of their scope.

5. Illustrate the eight steps of Guided Biofilm Therapy

Sarah Crow, RDH started in the dental industry in 2004.  She has earned numerous awards throughout her education and career as a dental hygienist. To name a few, in 2018 Sarah was named “Component Hygienist of the Year” by her colleagues and was most recently voted the 2021 “Massachusetts Dental Society Hygienist of the Year.”  

Sarah currently serves as the Immediate Past-President, for ADHA Massachusetts, and is the co-founder of MDHA’s Mentor Liaison Team.  She is a Senior Executive Consultant for Cellerant Consulting Group and a National Trainer in the field of Guided Biofilm Therapy for EMS Dental where she presents educational content virtually and in-person, to hygienists across the country. 

Sarah enjoys working chairside with patients one on one where she is given the opportunity to exhibit her passion for helping others to improve their oral and overall health.

AGD Code: Periodontics - 490

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the Academy of General Dentistry Program Approval for Continuing Education (PACE) through the joint program provider approval of CE Zoom and Procter & Gamble / Crest+Oral-B. CE Zoom is approved for awarding FAGD/MAGD credit.

Course Contact: help@cezoom.com

Course Categories: Periodontics (Diagnosis, Treatment (surgical/non-surgical), Maintenance, Scaling / Instrumentation, Supportive Perio Therapies),Cariology (Demineralization / Remineralization) -cause, treatment, &/or prevention

Provider Approval: (AGD) Academy of General Dentistry, Nationally Recognized (AGD-PACE) Academy of General Dentistry Program approval for Continuing Education

Educational Type: Live

Educational Method: Lecture

Prerequisites :

None 

Sponsor(s) : Crest + Oralb

Conflict of Interest Disclosure: None

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