TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD HEALTHIER & BRIGHTER SMILES

Live CE Webinar: June 11, 2025,7:30-9:00 PM ET

Explore the cutting-edge scientific research revealing the profound effects of nutritious foods and their components on both oral and overall health. This course will bridge the gap between nutrition, oral and systemic health research and practical applications, empowering oral healthcare professionals to promote positive health outcomes. Oral health practitioners will leave this presentation with a comprehensive understanding of the role of a healthy dietary pattern, as well as the ability to incorporate these considerations into conversations to provide a patient-centered approach to oral healthcare.

This is part 2 of a 10-part series entitled Caries Process, Prevention, and Management. Dental caries is a multifactorial, infectious disease affecting a significant percentage of the population. This course describes the etiology and pathways of progression of dental caries, including an in-depth review of the role of dental plaque and oral bacteria.

This course prepares oral health care professionals to review current scientific evidence-based literature on how oral nicotine pouches impact oral health, oral disease and systemic health, to ensure this information is effectively communicated and disseminated to patients through patient education. This course reviews oral nicotine pouches (ONPs) features, Federal Drug Administration regulations, nicotine correlation to brain development, and nicotine replacement therapy. The course reviews dental caries, oral mucosa, periodontal conditions/alveolar bone destruction, stain, gastrointestinal, risk of cancer in correlation to ONPs usages. Finally, the course highlights the oral health care professional role in addressing this new public health trend of ONPs usage in our youth and young adults.