General Membership Meeting: CAMBRA and Minimally Invasive Restorative Care – 5/13/27

Patients with Special Health Care Needs (medically and developmentally) are often at greater dental caries risk and periodontal risk. CAMBRA (Caries Management By Risk Assessment) can help identify and make appropriate recommendations to reducing risks. Our goal as oral health care professionals are to both repair teeth but help patients become healthier. Learn how to utilize CAMBRA and the new science of minimally invasive care to help treat patients efficiently.

Understanding the “why” and “when” for minimally invasive dentistry can help give your patients more options to become healthier with less fears.

In this course, we will discuss chemotherapeutics to treatment of high caries risk patients as well as lower their risks.

Objectives:

• Review the Caries Management By Risk Assessment (CAMBRA) principles and efficiently
• Review the treatment recommendations to lower caries risk and choices for minimally invasive dentistry
• Review some of the chemotherapeutic choices for high risk patients and discuss myths of choices of SDF and Glass Ionomers
• Modifications for using minimally invasive strategies for those with special health care needs (Intellectual / Developmental Disabilities)

Biography:

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Dr. Allen Wong has taught postdoctoral general dentistry for over 38 years in AEGD programs (Pacific and University California San Francisco) and was the director of Pacific’s Hospital Dentistry Program. He has lectured nationally and internationally in the areas of special care dentistry, rotary endodontics, implant restorations, and minimally invasive dentistry. He was active with Special Olympics Special Smiles program (ret. Global Clinical Advisor), Immediate Past President American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry (AADMD) and Past President Special Care Dentistry Association (SCDA). Past President CAMBRA Coalition (Caries Management By Risk Assessment), Omicron Kappa Upsilon Honor Fraternity (Delta Delta Chapter) Past president. California Dental Association Foundation Board of Director, Secretary. San Francisco Dental Society Dental Health Committee Chairman. Santa Fe Group, Fellow for IDD.

Retired from 38 years of teaching with the University of the Pacific Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry as a Professor Emeritus in the Department of Diagnostic Sciences. He directed a postdoctoral residency program (Advanced Education in General Dentistry) where he taught dentists to incorporate minimally invasive, science-based dentistry strategies to patients with healthcare needs as well as those needing treatment in hospital settings.

Upon retirement he was honored with University of the Pacific’s Order of the Pacific and the Pacific Dugoni Dental School Medallion of Distinction. Recently recruited to be the Dental Department Head for Kramer Davis Health (a transdisciplinary medical/dental center exclusively for adults with IDD) in Nashville, Tennessee and now the IDD Dental Director for Renaissance Dental Insurance to help expand the access to care and coverage for those adults with IDD in Tennessee.