Title
Understanding & applying the new 2018 AAP classification to your practice.
Description
This course is designed for the busy dental hygienist and will offer a practical approach to incorporating the “2018 Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Diseases and Conditions” into your dental hygiene care plan. Periodontal diseases are now viewed from a multidimensional perspective with individual patient risk factors now incorporated into the robust staging and grading framework modeled after the field of oncology. The new classification system changes the ADPIE of dental hygiene care, specifically the assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, and evaluation of gingival and periodontal diseases of natural teeth and dental implants. As the old saying goes, it’s out with the old and in with the new. If you are ready to make the time, make a change, and embrace this new methodology to patient care, then this course is for you!
Educational Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, the oral health care provider will be able to:
Recognize the four categories of the 2018 Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Disease and Conditions.
Apply the new periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions classification system into clinical practice with accurate diagnostic language.
Use the classification system to correctly identify a patient’s health or disease state along a continuum to implement best practices into treatment planning.
Compare and contrast peri-implant health, peri-implant mucositis, peri-implantitis, and peri-implant hard and soft tissue deficiency.