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Creating a Flight Plan Beyond the Routine
3-Day Hygiene Mastery Series
co-presented with Judy Bendit, RDH, BS

Imagine you are seated comfortably in an airline seat, waiting at the gate. You watch the luggage being loaded, hear the familiar announcements and feel the push back, taxi and take-off. You enjoy watching as the land below you zooms out of view. But then, suddenly everything becomes clouded. You lose all sense of position. Nothing is anchored. There are no indicators to judge distance. You have to simply trust that the pilot is taking you to your destination.

In these turbulent times, the old way of practicing dentistry is rapidly changing. There is dissonance between the old ways and the new, as if 2 storm fronts are colliding. The ebb and flow makes things confusing and often frightening. If you are the pilot however, a different picture emerges. There are reliable guides through the clouds. Even when the sky is occluded, pilots use their instruments to lead them faithfully to their destination.

Our 3 days together are designed to give you the tools to pilot yourself through all types of weather. We are your air traffic control, there to remind you of the guideposts we learned long ago as well as introducing new ones. On any journey there are many risks, we will help you learn to mange those and outline clear steps to take developing your flight plans.

As the pilot, you will create a:

· Figure out how to navigate through the many assessment tools to determine what is right for you and your practice.

· Learn to differentiate cancer, salivary and DNA screening tools and have an opportunity to judge for yourself the ease in using them.

· Investigate the many of the caries and perio assessment products to acclimate yourself with their functionality and ease of use.

· Guided by your flight instructors, using real patient data and formulate treatment plans using risk assessment and screening tools.

· Have a flight plan in hand to evaluate and decide your instrument armamentarium.

· Together look at many ergonomic issues and how to solve bad habits.

· Practice with and evaluate hand instruments, magnetostrictive and piezoelectric ultrasonic scalers.

· Look at adjunctive therapeutics choices best for your patients

· Assess major emerging enamel therapies and select the appropriate modalities for patient’s needs based on risk assessment.

· Now to EMPOWER yourself with this knowledge.