Instructors: Jon B. Suzuki, DDS, PhD, MBA, Gordon J. Christensen, DDS, MSD, PhD and Trisha O'Hehir, RDH

Location: Scottsdale, AZ

Estimates indicate that about 35% of adult patients need periodontal therapy in the US, but few patients actually are treated, because of anxiety, fear, and expense. Demographic changes in the U.S. have shifted the population to older individuals, many of whom have medical or medication history precluding comprehensive periodontal surgery. Simplified, relatively painless, conservative periodontal procedures can provide periodontal care for these patients and will develop a new staff-oriented profit center in your practice.

Numerous simple, easily implemented concepts and procedures are well proven to treat various forms of moderate periodontal disease. When conservative treatment is supervised and delivered by hygienists, the results not only serve patients well, they also increase practice activity, and build staff responsibility and overall practice enjoyment. This course, intended preferably for dental hygienists and dentists as a team, but for either alone, demonstrates how to plan and implement a conservative periodontal service center in typical practices including: frequent education about periodontal disease and oral hygiene, scaling and root planning every few months, routine tongue cleaning, sub-systemic antibiotics, therapeutic oral rinses, local antibiotics, placement of a periodontal removable partial denture to replace missing and questionable teeth, and other therapies. Make conservative periodontal treatment a valuable part of your practice by determining your patients with periodontal needs, and implementing innovative dentist/hygienist planning, optimum dental benefit use, and overall treatment and administration by hygienists.

Behavioral Objectives

• Discuss the extreme need for periodontal therapy
• List reasons why periodontal therapy is not commonly practiced in typical dental offices
• Describe the rationale for conservative periodontal therapy vs. conventional periodontal surgical techniques
• List the reasons for use of the following conservative periodontal therapy techniques: scaling and root planning every three months, oral rinses, tongue cleaning, local antibiotics, sub-systemic systemic antibiotics
• Describe a clinical sequence of medicinal and physical steps for treatment of mild to moderate periodontal disease

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