Helping Those Patients: Kids

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There are those patients… those patients who lack oral hygiene and yet don’t develop dental caries; those patients who seem dedicated to oral hygiene and yet are plagued by saliva that seems downright caustic; and those patients for whom we would do anything to slow down recurrent decay, because… If dental caries continues to affect your patients despite your best efforts, you’ll be pleasantly surprised by the advances in clinical cariology, especially as you care for those patients that make you wonder, how do I help THIS patient? 

The expanding landscape of the oral microbiome is redefining our understanding of oral health and disease. With the rapid increase in new therapeutics, it is possible to practice preventive rather than reparative dentistry – but what could go horribly wrong if we do?  Armed with new clinical guidelines based on recent systematic reviews, clinicians are choosing between the comfort of what they’ve always done and liquids that claim to stop and reverse dental caries. Risk assessments sound like the cornerstones of dental caries management, but there’s more to the stopping the most prevalent disease on the planet than filling out a form - and nobody gets healthier when more forms get filled out.  If you feel hindered by a questionnaire and a little behind the cariology curve, this webinar series will help get you “off the page” and into a deeper conversation that changes behavior and creates healthier patients. 

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Helping Those Patients: Kids 

Caries management in children is very different from treating the disease in an adult’s mouth.  For starters, you have TWO patients, and is either one of them listening?  While fluoride varnish may be the first thing you reach for, there is much more to reducing decay than slathering an electronegative anion and tree sap all over the teeth, after someone spent time cleaning them.