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Bare Essentials to Inflammation
Author(s): Dr. Uche Odiatu
Member Price: $49.00
CE Credit(s): 1
Retail Price: $69.00
Course Created on: 07/29/2020
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Description:

Overview
Our patients don’t leave their stressful jobs, poor sleeping patterns (insomnia, apnea, snoring), their physical fitness (or lack) or their eating patterns (mindless eating & evening feeding frenzies) in the car before they sit in our chair. In his high-energy presentation, Dr. Uche Odiatu highlights the science of how lifestyle and habits can increase or decrease inflammation.

Presenter
Uche Odiatu, DMD, is the author of The Miracle of Health, a professional member of the American College of Sports Medicine, an NSCA certified personal trainer, and a certified yoga instructor.

 

In this course, you will:
• Discover how eating habits have the ability to dial down or ramp inflammation and how it affects your treatment outcomes
• Learn why it’s important to identify the sleep deprived patient in your practice
• Understand why your sedentary patients don’t heal as well as your active living patients. ALERT 85% of your patients lead sedentary lives.
• Gain greater insight into the relationship between chronic inflammation & disease
• Develop a conversation style to positively impact your patient at the new patient & recare exam

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Do Your Patients Have the Guts to Enjoy Oral Health?
Author(s): Dr. Uche Odiatu
Member Price: $49.00
CE Credit(s): 1
Retail Price: $69.00
Course Created on: 05/15/2020
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Description:

Overview
Do your patients have the guts to douse the flames of inflammation? Our patient’s gut flora make very powerful anti-inflammatory agents when fed key nutrients.

Learn what impacts gut integrity: antibiotics, jet lag, fast food, artificial sweeteners and what we dental professionals can do. The latest science from the National Institutes of Health shows that the microbiome impacts overall health as much as our genes.

Dental industry people are the key professionals to ensure optimum functioning of the masticatory system. This insightful presentation provides an enjoyable and novel path to lower patients’ inflammatory burden.

Presenter
Uche Odiatu, DMD, is the author of The Miracle of Health, a professional member of the American College of Sports Medicine, an NSCA certified personal trainer, and a certified yoga instructor.

 

In this course, you will:

  • Gain insight into the science of the human microbiome
  • Learn why new findings about your patients’ gut flora are shaking the very foundation of health care & nutrition
  • Understand why the dental professional is perfectly positioned to help people live more vibrant lives
  • Discover the foundational role of your patient's gut integrity and inflammation

TREAT23

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Science and Skills for Talking about the HPV Vaccine
Member Price: $0.00
CE Credit(s): 1
Retail Price: $0.00
Course Created on: 10/30/2019
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Description:

Oral cancer rates due to HPV are on the rise, and the role of the dentist is critical in its prevention and in the promotion of the HPV vaccine. Dentists will learn the basics of the HPV vaccine, how to initiate conversation with their patients, answer difficult questions, and get comfortable developing effective messaging techniques.

After completing this courses, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the basic science of the HPV vaccine and how it works
  • Initiate conversations around the HPV vaccine and answer difficult questions
  • Comfortably develop effective messaging techniques around the HPV vaccine

Presented by the ADA Council on Advocacy for Access & Prevention and Robin Wright, PhD, Director, Research and Policy Center of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry

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Emergency Department Referral Model in Action: Addressing Dental Access Opioid Prevention and Pain Management
Member Price: $0.00
CE Credit(s): 1
Retail Price: $0.00
Course Created on: 08/08/2019
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Description:

The high frequency of utilization of the hospital ED by patients seeking care for non-emergent dental conditions provided the impetus for Mercy Health, Ohio’s largest healthcare provider, to develop strategic approaches to pain management and the opioid crisis by creating a definitive care concept, an evidence-based pain management curriculum, a substance abuse screening tool, and strategic utilization of the electronic medical record to track inappropriate prescribing profiles to alert and educate prescribers relative to best practices.

After completing this courses, participants will be able to:

  • Understand the development, operational approach and rationale for implementing the Definitive Care Concept
  • Recognize evidence-based approaches to pain management including preoperative, perioperative, and postoperative approaches
  • Recognize the benefits of creating tools to improve identification of at-risk patients, encourage early treatment referrals, establish acute withdrawal protocols and provide more efficient access to available PDMP databases

Presented by the ADA Council on Advocacy for Access & Prevention and M. Frank Beck, DDS, FAAHD, MAGD, FICOI, DSCDA

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