- 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!
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Sarah Crow, RDH started in the dental industry in 2004. She has earned numerous awards throughout her education and career as a dental hygienist. To name a few, in 2018 Sarah was named “Component Hygienist of the Year” by her colleagues and was most recently voted the 2021 “Massachusetts Dental Society Hygienist of the Year.”
Sarah currently serves as President, for ADHA Massachusetts, and is the co-founder of MDHA’s Mentor Liaison Team. Sarah is a Senior Executive Consultant for Cellerant Consulting Group and is a National Trainer in the field of Guided Biofilm Therapy for EMS Dental.
Sarah enjoys working chairside with patients one on one where she is given the opportunity to exhibit her passion for helping others to improve their oral and overall health.
Brian Novy, DDS is the Chief Dental Officer at the Alliance Dental Center in Quincy, Massachusetts, and holds faculty appointments at three dental schools. He served on the ADA Council of Scientific Affairs 2011-2014 and was chair of the CAMBRA Coalition.
Andrea Zandona, DDS, PhD is a tenured Professor and Chair of the Comprehensive Care Department at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine. Dr. Zandoná is originally from Curitiba, Brazil where she received her dental degree from Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná. Dr. Zandona earned her master's degree in Dental Sciences in Operative Dentistry and a PhD in Dental Sciences from Indiana University. Since 2018, she has served as chair of Comprehensive Care, the largest department at Tufts School of Dental Medicine housing almost 90 faculty members across 5 divisions, including the comprehensive care clinics where over 460 DMD and IS/DMD students provide patient care. She has published and lectured nationally and internationally on prevention and management of dental caries serving on editorial boards and as reviewer for numerous scientific and dental journals. Dr. Zandona has been part of the International Caries Detection and Assessment System Foundation Committee, has served on the European Organization of Caries Research advisory board, was President of the CAMBRA coalition and Cariology Section of the American Dental Education Association.
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
Recommended Audience: Dentist, Hygienist
The Calcivis grant has been applied to this course.
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