TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD HEALTHIER & BRIGHTER SMILES

Practice success is dependent on having excellent systems. This course will focus on the scheduling system with an overview of why it is the single most important system, how it integrates with other systems, how to design an ideal schedule, and how to track and monitor performance through the scheduling results. Practices that can implement an ideal schedule and follow it while delivering excellent customer service are almost always practices that enjoy a high level of success.

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.