TOGETHER WE CAN BUILD HEALTHIER & BRIGHTER SMILES

Live CE Webinar: August 13, 2025,8:00-9:30 PM ET

Orthodontic appliances make oral hygiene more challenging, increasing the risk of plaque accumulation, gingival inflammation, and white spot lesions. This course presents a practical, evidence-based approach to preventing these issues through patient education, clinical coaching, and smart at-home practices. We’ll cover the critical habits that lead to success—including effective brushing, flossing, fluoride use, and compliance—and demonstrate how using the right homecare tools complements these practices. Attendees will leave with tools to elevate both short-term hygiene and long-term oral health in patients undergoing orthodontic treatment.

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.