8:00 am - 9:00 amRegistration and healthy
breakfast
9:00 am - 12:00 noon Presentation
This three-hour course will
walk you through a virtual patient visit with an older adult.You will be exposed to the issues that face
older adults that often are not considered in younger populations.We will discuss topics such as health literacy,
communication with vision and hearing impaired individuals and recognition of
early dementia.Is your office ready to
accommodate older adults?Are you making
it a user-friendly environment for older adults?We will discuss suggestions for making your
office safer and more pleasant for older adults.We will end with a few suggestions for
modifying oral hygiene instructions in order to have better clinical
outcomes.
About the speaker:
Ruth S. Goldblatt DMD,
FAGD, FASGD, DABSCD is an associate clinical professor at UConn School of
Dental Medicine.She received her dental
degree from the UConn and completed her General Practice Residency at St.
Frances Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford. After 5 years in private
practice, she provided mobile dental services to long term care patients in MA
and CT, before joining the faculty at UConn where she is currently responsible
for the undergraduate special needs curriculum while also teaching restorative
dentistry and oral medicine. Dr.Goldblatt is the Director of Dentistry at the
Hebrew Home and Hospital in West Hartford and is currently affiliated research
faculty at the UConn Center on Aging.Goldblatt
is a Fellow in the Academy of General Dentistry and in 2006 was named as a
Fellow in the Pierre Fauchard Academy.In 2007 she was inducted into Omicron Kappa Upsilon, a national dental
honor society.In 2007 she also received
her Fellowship in Geriatric Dentistry and became a Diplomate in Special Care
Dentistry.She currently sits on the
governing board of the American Society for Geriatric Dentistry where she is
serving as secretary and the Board of Governors for the Special Care Dental
Association.She sits on the State of
Connecticut's Elderly Oral Health Task Force and is currently on the
subcommittee of the Oral Health Task Force to oversee the education and
training component.
Registered Dental Hygienists:This course is acceptable for Connecticut mandatory
CE requirements.
Dentists : This course fulfills the mandatory CE requirement
for education in care of special needs patients.
Caries
is the transmissible, bacterially generated pH disease process causing tooth
decay. Repair and restoration of damage caused by caries does not treat the
infection. Caries management by risk assessment (CAMBRA) represents a paradigm
shift. It treats dental caries as an infectious disease that is curable and
preventable. The science supporting CAMBRA has been present for quite some
time; however, its clinical adoption, until recently, remained slow. This hand‐on
case study based course will give participants opportunities to see, touch, and
use the latest risk assessment and treatment products and technologies. Key
topics covered
include:
Define
the CAMBRA risk assessment tool and the reason behind the paradigm shift
Illustrate
the evidence‐based research supporting this shift
Discuss
the latest diagnostic technologies in screening and tracking caries
patterns
Describe
to adapt CAMBRA principles to fit your practice and create staff buy‐in
to
integrate
into every day practice
Ascertain the attitudes of third‐party
payers to this changing paradigm.
About the speaker:
Patti DiGangi, RDH, BS , is a speaker, author, and
clinician unlike any other. No matter what she is doing, Patti's spontaneity
and entertaining style keeps people involved and having fun while they learn
"news you can use." Her passions include minimal intervention, early
oral cancer detection, eagle-eye assessments, oral/systemic links, dental
insurance, medical emergencies in a dental office, and giving others the
opportunity to achieve new goals and find new passions. She is also a
Director/Coach of CareerFusion, a retreat providing intensive
personalized training in all facets of career evolution focusing on computer,
writing, and presentation skills, along with business know-how, networking and
bonding with those of like mind and ambition.
This course is
sponsored through and educational grant provided by GC America.
Registered Dental
Hygienists:This course is acceptable
for Connecticut mandatory CE requirements.
Dentists: This course
fulfills the mandatory CE requirement for education in risk management.
