We meet the second Tuesday of each month at 8:30 PM Eastern to learn from scientists, thought leaders, authors, doctors, and other leaders in medicine and dentistry. Upcoming speakers are listed below.
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Dr. Ankur Gupta
Dental hygiene is a rewarding but demanding profession, and many hygienists find themselves drained by the physical, emotional, and interpersonal challenges of the job. This course offers a refreshing perspective on how to rediscover purpose, protect your energy, and create a workday that feels more fulfilling. Through honest conversation, mindset shifts, and practical strategies, we’ll explore how to reduce burnout, let go of resentment, and walk out of the office each day feeling proud, calm, and recharged. This course isn't just about surviving the workweek—it's about enjoying it.
Lynn Atkinson, RDH
As the understanding of periodontal disease advances, innovative approaches are revolutionizing treatment and patient outcomes. This presentation explores the integration of Perio Protect and laser therapy emphasizing their synergistic effects in reducing inflammation, controlling biofilm, and promoting tissue healing.
Perio Protect offers a non-invasive method for delivering antimicrobial agents deep into periodontal pockets, complementing mechanical debridement. Meanwhile, laser technology enhances bacterial reduction, biofilm disruption, and bio stimulation, fostering a more favorable environment for tissue regeneration.
Attendees will gain insight into the clinical benefits, patient compliance strategies, and practical implementation of these adjunctive therapies in a dental practice. By leveraging these advanced modalities, the clinician can improve treatment efficacy and empower patients in their periodontal health journey.
Perio Tray™ therapy from Perio Protect delivers medication deep below the gums so that the medication can fight infections causing the host inflammatory response. The seal on the tray is the key to deep delivery.
The primary antimicrobial used in Perio Tray™ delivery is Perio Gel™ with 1.7% hydrogen peroxide. This effective, broad-spectrum antimicrobial decreases our reliance on antibiotics and has the added benefits of freshening breath and whitening teeth. Patients love these benefits.
Perio Tray™ therapy is offered most often to patients with gingivitis or periodontitis, but it is also prescribed for patients with infected margins around restorations, with peri-implant mucositis or peri-implantitis.
Because Perio Tray™ therapy helps improve gingival health and prevent the recurrence of disease, it also extends the life of restorations, giving you optimal restorative results.
Perio Protect has the only tray delivery system with research to support these claims.
"As a periodontist, I have tried just about every method of treating periodontal disease that makes scientific sense. The key to success is long-term maintenance. Perio Protect is the one treatment that I have utilized in the last five years that works. Perio Protect is easy for patients to use, which means high compliance and high compliance means lots of success. It has become part of my winning formula."
Dr. Gordon Fraser
Conyers, GA
Reducing Oral Inflammation Improves General Health and Wellness
Periodontal disease is not just an inflammatory response to a bacterial infection that leads to tooth loss. It is a chronic inflammatory disease with multiple risk and modifying factors that prime individual patients to respond differently to polymicrobial biofilm-induced inflammation.
Perio Tray™ delivery of Perio Gel™ (1.7% hydrogen peroxide) helps better manage inflammation by suppressing pro-inflammatory gram-negative populations in the subgingival microbiome and encouraging the repopulation of healthier bacterial species. When delivered and held deep below the gums, peroxide works as a broad-spectrum antimicrobial, physically disrupting the biofilm matrix that protects biofilm communities and lysing bacterial cell walls.
Peroxide via Perio Tray™ delivery does more than just kill bacteria. Its release of oxygen – as it activates, peroxide turns into O2 + H2O – changes the microenvironment of the periodontal pocket so that healthy bacterial species repopulate at the expense of pathogenic ones. The environmental changes in the pockets thus have a direct effect on the changes in the composition of bacterial species in the microbiome.
Because periodontal diseases place a chronic low-grade burden on the immune system and exacerbate other inflammatory primed comorbidities like type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, dementia, rheumatoid arthritis and others, it's important to treat at every stage.
