The Confident Management of Periodontal Disease

This course offers 2 Category I CE units.

Course Description:
Earn 2 CE units and learn the updated, most effective techniques and strategies for the management of periodontally involved patients in your practice. This course will touch on many aspects of this multifactorial disease such as diagnosis, treatment planning, effective scaling & root planing techniques, and successful long-term patient management. Use this course to refresh important skills, learn new techniques to enhance your level of care, and reinvigorate your passion for dental hygiene! This is an excellent class for the whole team and will touch on topics that your team can use with the perio patient in mind.

Learning Objectives:
• Periodontal disease identification
• Perio treatment planning for success
• Tips & tools for excellent scaling & root planing
• The most effective oral hygiene techniques & products
• Treat or refer?
• Ongoing care methods for the best patient outcomes

Speaker: Emily Jensen, RDH, BSDH, MPH

Emily earned her bachelors degree in dental hygiene from the USC School of Dentistry and her Masters in Public Health from the USC Keck School of Medicine. Following graduation, she taught as a clinical instructor at USC where she discovered her passion for teaching fellow dental professionals. Emily went on to start her own dental hygiene consulting company, Polished Hygiene, where she coaches dental practices to create extraordinary hygiene teams. She currently consults, is a board certified continuing education provider for the state of California, speaker, and
practices clinically at a Northern California based periodontal practice.