Prevention for Life®: Keeping your patients caries free at all ages
LIVE WEBINAR
30 Apr 2025 Online Event | 23:00 UAE (GST) | 22:00 KSA | 19:00 UK | 20:00 CET Area of interest: General Dentistry, Oral Hygiene
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Note: This webinar will be translated into German, Polish, and Spanish.

Absract

Whether it is an infant battling transmission of Streptococcus mutans from the mother, a stressed adult making poor dietary choices or a senior citizen with exposed roots, each stage of life has its’ own set of threats to oral health. This course will examine those risks and behaviors as they relate to your patient groups by age. You will use evidence-based risk factors to determine who will benefit from what level of intervention and learn to construct patient-centered strategies to affect change. 

Traditionally, we provide fluoride varnish to children under the age of 18 as part of caries management but what about everyone else?  The intervention strategies discussed will include measures to take at the other stages of life: during pregnancy, after birth, adults and senior citizens. You will learn a quick and easy method for uncovering the most common evidence-based risk factors that affect each age group. You will discover that a majority of your patients are likely to benefit from a risk reduction strategy.

Participants will learn about proven practice-based treatments such as fluoride varnish and numerous home products that the patient/parent can include in their oral health routine. Getting your patients through life caries-free is attainable; it just takes deliberate intervention at every stage of life. 

Learning Objectives

  • Quickly assess the patients’ risk level using an evidence-based protocol for known risk factors 
  • Effectively communicate the long-term benefits of fluoride varnish as a risk reduction tool
  • Create customized intervention strategies to prevent or break the caries cycle
  • Provide assessment and treatment with minimal change to your current hygiene appointment 
  • Establish an office protocol promoting risk assessment as an important part of patient and practice health

Moderator Dr Gitana Rederiene

 


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