- Saturday 1/27/2024
- Time: 2:30 -3:30 pm
- Course Code: 741SL
- Cost: No Charge
- Room Location: BCEC Room 258 B
- Credits: 1 CE Hour
A New Perspective on Caries Management: Seeing is Believing!
In this course, three experts from the field of cariology, practice-based preventive dentistry and dental hygiene will review the scientific foundation for caries prevention and appropriate therapeutic agents; evidence-based decision-making to treat or not-to-treat; and recently approved bioluminescent imaging to determine caries lesion activity status. Bioluminescence uses a photoprotein to show Calcium ions as they are shed from a demineralizing tooth surface and as such will help indicate graphically the lesion activity status which together with other risk assessment data will inform the clinician and patient as to the appropriate level of prevention or intervention. Short-term chairside experience will be presented together with ideas for incorporating this technology into the office workflow for the caries-risk patient. This novel technology adds objective data and helps inform the clinician and patient whether prevention has worked or not.
- Understand current scientific and clinical thinking around caries activity and its implications for caries management
- Develop preventive regimens that are both effective and adaptable
- Identify preventive agents and therapeutics, and describe their indications
- Employ caries activity status in clinical decision-making to apply preventive protocols or early-intervention techniques
- Interpret bioluminescent images to determine caries activity status and outcomes of preventive and early intervention therapies
- Utilize bioluminescent images in patient counselling and education to develop understanding of caries risk and the roles of both patient and clinician in successful outcomes
- Understand how to incorporate bioluminescent imaging into the office workflow with minimal disruption to patient scheduling
The Calcivis grant has been applied to this course.
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