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Protecting your Restorations - Like a Dental Warrior!

Protecting your Restorations - Like a Dental Warrior!

By: Jen Post, RDH, MDH

Post Date: 7/10/2024

CE Amount: 1

Categories: Restorative, Hygiene

COURSE OVERVIEW

Did you know that each time you touch a dental bur to uncut tooth enamel you’re likely starting the clock ticking on the life and vitality of that tooth? Are you really treating your patient’s disease or just the consequences of their disease?  In this lecture we’ll explore strategies for protecting and maintaining your patient’s teeth for the long term and creating an atmosphere of clinical excellence for you and your patients.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:

  • Identify dentistry’s tendency to overtreat the consequences of disease 
  • Describe evidence-based methodologies for treating and protecting valuable tooth structure
  • Recognize what dental professionals can do to defend their patients from the dental bur of destruction

COURSE SPEAKER

Jen Post, RDH, MDH
Jen Post, RDH, MDH

Jen has been a licensed dental hygienist in Minnesota since 1999. She is a 1999 graduate of the University of South Dakota with degrees in Nursing, Psychology and Dental Hygiene. Jen received her master’s degree in dental hygiene from the University of Minnesota in 2013. She was previously an adjunct professor of dental hygiene at the University of Minnesota where she lectured, worked hands on with dental, dental therapy and dental hygiene students and conducted research. Jen’s research evaluated the use of restorative functions by dental assistants and dental hygienists in Minnesota. Jen joined 3M in 2016 and is currently a Clinical Applications Specialist for the Prevention Lab within 3M Oral Care. She is a subject matter expert and works in the research and development of dental products to assure that new products are practical, easy to use and clinically relevant for dental professionals.

TARGET AUDIENCE

This course is intended for Dental Assistant, Dentist, Hygienist, and Office Manager from novice to advanced.

EDUCATIONAL METHOD

Self Instructional Online CE Course

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SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY STATEMENT

Information shared in this continuing education activity is developed from clinical research and represents the most current information available from evidence-based dentistry.

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