An overview of critical medical history components that can be implicated in or the cause of oral disease, as well as integrating early clinical-decision making strategies in alignment with medical condition risk.

✅ Module 1 Handout 17 Pages

✅ Module 1 Course Evaluation

✅ Module 1 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Review medical conditions commonly observed on history documents and their considerations
• Identify specific considerations for major illnesses and operations as reported by the patient
• Evaluate indications and contraindications of various medications and supplements
• Examine various symptoms that may point to underlying medical conditions

An approach to siphoning critical patient-centric details that can provide key insights and indicators to developing a patient-centric approach to oral health care.

✅ Module 2 Handout 14 Pages

✅ Module 2 Course Evaluation

✅ Module 2 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Collect data essential for patient-specific reports
• Review historical and risk profiles for the history of dental disease
• Integrate medical reports in understanding implications and results to patient care
• Review various lifestyle considerations that may impact or influence dental care

An immersive survey of the integration of vital signs within the dental hygiene process of care, as well as the usage of critical components in evaluating risk for overt oral disease.

✅ Module 3 Handout 14 Pages

✅ Module 3 Course Evaluation

✅ Module 3 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Review the optimal and suboptimal metrics as they relate to standard vital signs
• Explore advanced vital signs based on patient-specific medical conditions and modalities
• Identify oral-systemic, periodontal, caries, oral cancer and parafunctional factors to influence clinical decision-making modalities
• Discover ASA classifications as they relate to overall patient health

A critical look at oral pathologies and their contribution to identifying potential systemic diseases, as well as patient communication strategies for elevated case acceptance.

✅ Module 4 Handout 38 Pages

✅ Module 4 Course Evaluation

✅ Module 4 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Develop a key communication and preparation plan to offer clear and concise patient-centric education
• Explore the various anatomical areas requiring a complex overview during an ExtraOral examination
• Identify the key components of an IntraOral examination
• Discover appropriate documentation forms that permit a complete overview of a head and neck examination

A comprehensive overview of a complete periodontal assessment phase, including advanced parameters in the identification of diseases of the periodontium.

✅ Module 5 Handout 39 Pages

✅ Module 5 Course Evaluation

✅ Module 5 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Review a detailed overview of the various clinical assessments used in periodontal cases

• Examine the clinical criterion necessary for classifying various levels of periodontal disease

• Inspect the anatomical identifiers that will influence various clinical assessment pieces

• Discover alternative findings that can influence disease diagnosis and prognosis of treatment

A review of dental charting, integrating the opportunities for co-diagnosis education alongside treating doctors.

✅ Module 6 Handout 33 Pages

✅ Module 6 Course Evaluation

✅ Module 6 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the role of the dental hygienist in the comprehensive hard tissue evaluation
• Review the steps within the detection process for existing restorative materials
• Inspect the common considerations necessary within a hard tissue evaluation
• Discover a streamlined workflow process for capturing and communicating hard tissue findings with an evaluating dentist

A new approach to understanding diseases of occlusion, the temporomandibular joint and subsequent airway complications to thus identify potential sleep medicine cases.

✅ Module 7 Handout 26 Pages

✅ Module 7 Evaluation

✅ Module 7 CE Certificate 5 questions

 Learning Objectives:

• Review a detailed overview of the common occlusal classifications of class I, class II [and divisions] and class III
• Examine the clinical criterion identified during an examination of the TMJ area
• Discuss other occlusal complications that may indicate a potential parafunctional habit
• Discover some of the key indicators of a potential airway complication

A risk-assessment based strategy to identifying appropriate diagnostic radiographs necessary for the identification of oral diseases.

✅ Module 8 Handout 26 Pages

✅ Module 8 Evaluation

✅ Module 8 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Review key components to safety measures of radiography clinical decision making
• Discuss specific risk-assessment profiles that may warrant specific radiographic decisions
• Examine the key components of optimal diagnostic radiographs for improved decision making
• Discover futuristic trends in comprehensive radiographic surveys and decision making for optimal patient success

An initial overview of the AAP Staging and Grading modalities as they align with diagnostics of healthy, stable on a reduced periodontium and gingival diseases.

✅ Module 9 Handout 27 Pages

✅ Module 9 Course Evaluation

✅ Module 9 CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Review the previous periodontal classification systems
• Describe a patient case of an intact periodontium
• Identify a patient case of stable on a reduced periodontium
• Discover the clinical manifestations of various forms of gingivitis

A deeper overview of the AAP Staging and Grading modalities as they align with diagnostics of diseases of the periodontium.

✅ Handout 26 Pages

✅ Course Evaluation

✅ CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Review clinical parameters in distinguishing periodontal stages of disease
• Describe risk factors that may elevate the progression of periodontal disease
• Identify the various displays of grades of disease
• Explore case-based scenarios to optimize AAP staging and grading diagnostics

A critical look at the application of assessments and diagnostics into building a patient-centric care plan.

✅ Handout 16 Pages

✅ Course Evaluation

✅ CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Examine opportunities for development in the dental hygiene assessment phase
• Identify opportunities for team calibration in diagnostics
• Review existing protocols for opportunities for practice development
• Build a strategy for optimizing a clinical decision making framework that meets practice needs

A review of current CDT coding and billing details as they relate to dental hygiene clinical decision making, and the usage of chart preparation to optimize dental hygiene department success.

✅ Handout 31 Page

✅ Course Evaluation

✅ CE Certificate 5 questions

Learning Objectives:

• Review current CDT codes utilized for clinical assessments for the dental hygienist 
  • Identify patient cases appropriate for various active CDT codes ranging from preventive to therapeutic periodontal integrations
• List additional CDT codes appropriate for adjunctive dentSal hygiene therapy modalities
• Review critical aspects of an appropriate chart preparation for optimal success