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Tobacco Cessation Protocols for the Dental Practice
Course Duration: 3 hours
Every dental hygienist has the perfect opportunity to intervene with tobacco users, and is the most ideal person to implement and coordinate tobacco cessation activities in the dental practice. This course will provide dental hygienists with the tools and materials to make delivering tobacco cessation interventions to patients more effective and efficient.
Learning Objectives:
1. Understand how tobacco use is a risk factor for periodontal disease, oral cancer and systemic conditions.
2. Learn a three-step process intended to identify tobacco users and offer brief clinical interventions to help your patients quit.
3. Develop an office plan for tobacco cessation interventions using a team approach.
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Small Steps to a Healthier You
Course Duration: 4 hours
Small Steps to a Healthier You is all about you and what works for you. It’s about feeling better today and staying healthy for tomorrow. Ask yourself: “How do I feel? Am I as healthy as I can be—as I want to be every single day?” Doesn’t it seem like the busier you get, the harder it is to make healthy choices— and stick with them? You are bombarded every day with conflicting information about your health. It’s no wonder that you may throw up your hands and give up.
But if you want to live a long and fulfilling life, it’s essential that you learn the real facts about health, nutrition and physical activity.
This course provides you with the most current science-based nutrition to help you:
- Develop a healthy lifestyle plan and make healthy eating and physical activity top priorities in your life.
- Make smart choices from every food group.
- Get the most nutrition out of your calories.
- Find your balance between food and physical activity.
Sponsored in part by Philips Oral Healthcare
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“Does Heart Disease Begin in My Mouth?”
Course Duration: 4 hours
“Can my gum disease cause me to have a heart attack?” Patients are beginning to ask questions like these of dentists and dental hygienists. There has been increasing attention paid to the possibility that the systemic spread of periodontal infection may influence the initiation and progression of several systemic disease processes, including atherosclerosis, which causes many deaths from heart attack and stroke. This course prepares you to discuss these interrelationships with your patients, and translates the latest scientific recommendations into practical evidence-based assessment, prevention and therapeutic strategies to help reduce the burden of periodontal disease--contributing to improved overall health, and well-being.
Learning Objectives:
- Discuss how periodontal infections and inflammation may influence several systemic diseases and conditions.
- Identify three risk factors for periodontal disease that may influence atherosclerosis.
- Discuss periodontal disease prevention and management strategies as they apply to patients with, and at risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
Sponsored by Philips Sonicare.
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Preventing Heart Disease in the 21st Century:
Four Things Dental Hygienists Can Do
Course Duration: 3 hours
This course will focus on the dental hygienist’s role as a prevention specialist and expert in preventive interventions. The course will provide a timely update on cardiovascular disease and its associated risk factors, and the role the dental hygienist plays in reducing the burden of chronic diseases in America by calling attention to modifiable risk factors and suggesting appropriate lifestyle behaviors.
This course will empower dental hygienists to triage their patients and refer those who are at high-risk to an appropriate healthcare provider--implementing the wellness model of care based on risk identification, risk reduction and disease prevention.
This course includes:
- Review of the Surgeon General’s Report: Oral Health in America
- Healthy People 2010 Update
- National Call to Action to Promote Oral Health Update
- Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke Update
- The Wellness Model of Care
- The Role of the Dental Hygienist as a Prevention Specialist
- Primary Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease and Stroke
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About the Speaker
C. Austin Risbeck, RDH, is an author and speaker on tobacco cessation, nutrition, and the associations among periodontal disease, heart disease and diabetes. He is president and founder of Dental Hygienists Against Heart Disease, a coalition that provides nutrition, tobacco cessation, diabetes, and other health promoting resources to local, state, and national organizations. Austin has been featured in Access and RDH magazines, and has authored several articles in professional publications on the role dental hygienists play in promoting healthy lifestyles. He is a member of the Editorial/Advisory Board for two peer-reviewed professional publications. Austin volunteered as a Basic Life Support (BLS) instructor with the American Heart Association for nearly 24 years. He is a member of the American Dental Hygienists' Association (ADHA) Tobacco Cessation Task Force, and serves on the ADHA Council on Public Health. He works as a Smoking Cessation Liaison for the State of California. He is a consultant to the Smoking Cessation Leadership Center, a national program office of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and to Colgate as a member of the Colgate Dental Hygiene Advisory Board. Austin is a recipient of the 2005 Sunstar Butler/RDH Healthy Gums. Healthy Life. Award of Distinction. Austin has been involved in dentistry for over 29 years, and is a clinical dental hygienist at the Center for Aesthetic Dentistry in San Francisco, California.
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