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

VISUALIZATION - NEW TECHNIQUES FOR SEEING BEYOND 20/20

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 eyes work, the different methods of correction for common visual conditions,reading glasses vs loupes, various methods of adjunct illumination, microscopes, perioscopes, radiology, 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 patient’s experience
- Review of common eyeglass prescriptions
- Review how vision affects our ergonomic and body posture when treating patients
- 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
- Explore new technology in digital radiology
- Explore Perioscopy and magnification within the sulcus

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.