Katrina Sanders, RDH
This course empowers dental hygienists to transform their workplace dynamics with effective communication, team collaboration, and leadership strategies. This course helps professionals step into a confident, solution-driven role, leaving behind workplace drama for a positive, high-performing environment. With practical tools and real-life scenarios, you'll learn how to elevate your hygiene practice and lead your team toward excellence in patient care and workplace harmony.
Objectives: In this course, you will be able to:
- Develop Effective Leadership Skills: Acquire techniques to enhance your leadership abilities, fostering a collaborative and positive work environment within your dental hygiene team.
- Master Communication Strategies: Learn to navigate and resolve workplace conflicts with confidence, using clear and constructive communication methods to improve team dynamics and patient interactions.
- Implement Practical Solutions: Apply practical tools and strategies to address common workplace challenges, transforming drama into productive teamwork and advancing your practice's overall performance and patient care.
Charissa Wood, RDH
Do you find it challenging to present treatment options to your patients effectively? Are you convinced that the hurdles you face stem from your patients, your office dynamics, or dental insurance complexities? In this interactive course, Perio Protect Smile Smarter Study Club guest Charissa Wood will explore how to empower healthcare professionals to approach patient care with confidence and clarity.
Join us as we delve into the intricacies of presenting treatment and prevention strategies that resonate with patients. This course emphasizes the importance of individualizing care and transforming the way we communicate complex information. Together, we'll piece together the puzzle of patient engagement and treatment presentation, equipping you with the tools to foster stronger clinician-patient relationships and improve overall patient outcomes.
Course Objectives:
- Evaluate the fears and misconceptions that hinder effective patient communication.
- Determine how to conduct thorough assessments that gather essential information about your patient’s needs, preferences, and concerns.
- Develop strategies for presenting options that empower patients to make informed decisions about their care.
Dr. Duane Keller
Since graduating from dental school in the 1970s, Dr. Duane Keller hasn’t settled for dentistry’s status quo. Even in dental school, Dr. Keller was proactive, moonlighting as a periodontist’s surgical assistant to gain practical knowledge of techniques unavailable to students. This desire for knowledge and better care for patients didn’t change in his private practice. Through study and experimentation, he developed a unique approach to treating periodontal disease and TMD pain.
Join the Smile Smarter Study Club as we explore the past, present, and future treatments for periodontal disease with Duane Keller. Come prepared with questions for the interview-style webinar.
Objectives: In this course, you will be able to:
- Discuss how curiosity, failures, and a clinical surprise changed the course of periodontal treatment
- Identify the benefits of using oxygenating antimicrobials for biofilm management
- Assess trends in preventive care
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.
