Periodontology

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:

1. Recognize the four categories of the 2018 Classification of Periodontal and Peri-Implant Disease and Conditions.

2. Apply the new periodontal and peri-implant diseases and conditions classification system into clinical practice with accurate diagnostic language.

3. Use the classification system to correctly identify a patient’s health or disease state along a continuum to implement best practices into treatment planning.

4. Compare and contrast peri-implant health, peri-implant mucositis, peri-implantitis, and peri-implant hard and soft tissue deficiency.

Title

Unlocking the mystery of dental implant classification & maintenance.

Description

This course will discuss the new 2018 American Academy of Periodontology (AAP) classification system as it pertains to dental implants. The life of a dental implant varies greatly patient-to-patient. Dental providers involved in recare procedures must know how to identify an implant’s status along the continuum of health and disease. This course will review the anatomy and physiology of a dental implant, teach the provider how to identify an at-risk dental implant, and how to incorporate evidence-based technology for implant maintenance. Through increasing your knowledge in the identification of peri-implant health and disease, as laid out by the AAP, dental professionals will be able to customize treatment recommendations for their patients with a dental implant.

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of this course, the oral health care provider will be able to:

1. Identify a dental implant as healthy or diseased according to the 2018 AAP implant category.

2. Recognize when a dental implant is at high-risk for failure and when to refer to a specialist for evaluation.

3. Implement evidence-based implant maintenance technology for the safe debridement and long-term management of a dental implant.

4. Incorporate customized patient home care recommendations into a dental hygiene care plan.