This exciting class explores our vision and how it relates to patient care. The use of Magnification Loupes has become the standard of care for Dentistry and Dental Hygiene.

VISION, MAGNIFICATION AND PATIENT CARE

This exciting class explores our vision and how it relates to patient care. The use of Magnification Loupes has become the standard of care for Dentistry and Dental Hygiene.

This class will explain how our eye work, the different methods of correction for common visual conditions, reading glasses vs loupes, various methods of adjunct Illumination, and new technology to help us visualize oral cancer in its earliest stages.

Course Objectives:

Explore vision and how it affects our practice
Identify our changing visual needs for dental practice and everyday life
Identify various visual diseases some of our patients experience - Review of common eyeglass prescriptions
Experience the use of magnification loupes and adjunct lighting to aid in our patient care
Explore technology available to help identify oral cancer in earlier stages

Course Objectives:

Identify the early signs of occupational pain
Identify early inherent risk factors and common injuries
Identify when to use heat, cold, rest, and when to talk with a doctor
Review the use of OTC painkillers

LOUPES LIGHTS AND LEARNING CURVES

Course Objectives:

Embrace change and recognize that change is ultimately for the better
Recognize times when we can change our ergonomic practice for the better
Identify your own visual condition and how it affects our ergonomics while practicing dental hygiene
Hands-on experience with Loupes and Lighting
Identify learning curves when implementing new technology

IF YOU IGNORE IT WILL THE PAIN REALLY GO AWAY? HOW DO OUR BODIES COMPENSATE WHEN WE CHOOSE TO WORK IN PAIN?

After twenty years of working with dental professionals, it is now time for Lynn to share her experience of how dental professionals have chosen to live with, ignore, treat, and not treat occupational pain.

Similar to periodontal disease long-term exposure to dysfunctional posture does cause degeneration in our bodies, not unlike gingivitis we professionals are exposed to the early symptoms of occupational pain and often choose to ignore them, hoping it will go away on their own.