Dental CE Course: ADVANCED CLINICAL DENTAL HYGIENE TECHNIQUES: HANDS-ON WORKSHOP (COMPLETE PROGRAM)

SYNOPSIS:


This four day Advanced Dental Hygiene Clinical Techniques Workshop is a comprehensive hands-on update on the latest, cutting edge clinical techniques. Conceived and conducted by renowned members of the USC Faculty, this unique series of courses will provide close individualized instruction in advanced hand instrumentation, CAMBRA essentials (caries risk assessment and remineralization), advanced ultrasonic instrumentation, periodontal endoscopy, and advanced local anesthesia techniques. This Workshop has never been offered at USC or any other school in the country.

An ideal in-depth experience for development of dental hygiene faculty members as well as private practitioners, this workshop will be the best post-graduate clinical continuing education program ever offered for dental hygienists. It was designed for clinicians who want to keep abreast of the newest technologies, newest products and newest techniques. Whether you graduated last year or thirty years ago, do not miss this opportunity to greatly enhance your knowledge and become more current and confident with your clinical skills than ever before in your career.

Program Overview

Saturday, July 30, 2011
Advanced Periodonal Instrumentation - Lecture
Anna Pattison, RDH, MS
8:00am - 5:00 pm, 8 CE Units

This program for dentists and dental hygienists provides detailed and up-to-date information on new instruments and techniques that will enhance your ability to recognize and treat patients with moderate to advanced periodontitis. The format includes lecture, videotape and slide presentations on the following topics:

Rationale for root debridement: what are the latest concepts?

The influence of the periodontal endoscope on instrumentation.

Videotape comparing hand and ultrasonic instrumentation.

Use of Gracey 15/16, Gracey 17/18, Extra Rigid Graceys, After Fives™ and Mini Fives™, Micro Mini Fives™, Gracey Curvettes, universal curets, new sickles, files,diamond coated files, furcation curets, implant instruments and other new periodontal instruments.
Comparison of magnetostrictive and piezoelectric ultrasonic units and tip designs.

Common clinical problems with instrumentation

Innovative extraoral, reinforced, cross arch and opposite arch fulcrums and positions.

Specific techniques for furcations, line angles, and deep narrow pockets.

Antimicrobial irrigation and local delivery antibiotics.
Sunday, July 31, 2011
Advanced Periodontal Instrumentation - Hands-On*
Anna Pattison, RDH, MS and Dental Hygiene Faculty
8:00am - 5:00pm, 8 CE Units

This laboratory course for dentists and dental hygienists is designed to enhance your periodontal instrumentation enabling you to treat patients with greater skill and confidence. This intensive hands-on experience includes continuous TV demonstration by Anna Pattison, plus a team of experienced instructors attentive to individualized instruction throughout the day. The course features:

Root planing exercises and root morphology review on extracted teeth.

Keys to effective instrumentation technique.

Sextant by sextant hands-on instrumentation experience on typodonts with accurate root anatomy and periodontal defects.

Use of Gracey 15/16, Gracey 17/18, Extra Rigid Graceys, After Fives™ and Mini Fives™, Micro Mini Fives™, Gracey Curvettes, new sickles, diamondcoated files and furcation curets.

Use of extraoral, reinforced, crossarch and opposite arch fulcrums.

Innovative approaches for access to difficult problem areas such as furcations, line angles and deep, narrow pockets.

Instrument sharpening - hands on
* Registrants for Part II must have attended Part I or another full-day Advanced Periodontal Instrumentation lecture course by Anna Pattison within the past three years as the Part II workshop teaches skills which build on concepts presented in the Part I (full-day) lecture course. (Documented proof of attendance required.) Note: Participants are asked to bring safety glasses and gloves.It is advisable for attendees to not wear white clothing.Typodonts,poles,and complete instrument kits will be provided for use only during the course.
Monday, August 1, 2011
CAMBRA - Caries Management by Risk Assessment
Diane Melrose, RDH, BS, Chair of Dental Hygiene Program
9:00am - 12:00pm, 3 CE Units

This lecture and hands-on laboratory course for dentists and dental hygienists describes how to incorporate CAMBRA (Caries Management by Risk Assessment) protocols into an educational program or dental office.

Perioscopy - Lecture & Lab
Gayle Myers, RDH, BS
1:00pm - 5:00pm 4 CE Units

This lecture and hands-on laboratory course for dentists and dental hygienists on periodontal endoscopy (perioscopy) describes how the use of the dental endoscope can enhance your ability to perform periodontal instrumentation with a new understanding and a renewed vision for your profession.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011
Ultrasonics - Lecture & Lab
Donna Smith, BSDH, MSEd and Dental Hygiene Faculty
8:00am - 12:00pm, 4 CE Units

This lecture and hands-on laboratory course for dentists and dental hygienists on ultrasonic equipment and techniques will allow you to use and evaluate seven different magnetostrictive and piezoelectric ultrasonic units with hands on instruction.

Local Anesthesia Update - Lecture & Lab
Stanley Malamed, DDS
1:00am - 5:00pm, 4 CE Units

This lecture and laboratory course for dentists and dental hygienists is a comprehensive review of the newest local anesthetic agents, devices and techniques which will update your injection technique through lecture and laboratory practice.

Tuesday, August 2, 2011.
Clinical practice on participant partners
6:00pm - 8:00pm

This clinic session will allow participants to practice giving new injections and using the C-CLAD device on partners with supervision and instruction by experienced USC clinical instructors.