Course Description

Oral health is important for the overall wellness. This course will outline how we as oral health care providers play an important role in the overall health of our patients. We have a long record of promoting Wellness in our maintenance programs seeing healthy patients with the objective to keep them healthy. The effects of periodontal infection and inflammation are not limited to the destruction of the periodontium. There is an increasing body of evidence outlining its influence on systemic health. Many systemic diseases have an inflammatory component to their pathogenesis and are impacted to increases in inflammation as a result of periodontitis. Bacteremia’s can occur in the inflamed periodontal pocket and can contribute to disease remote form the oral cavity. The course will illustrate the relationship between periodontitis on Cardiovascular disease, Diabetes, Pregnancy, Alzheimer’s disease, Osteoporosis and Rheumatoid arthritis and improving oral health improves these conditions.

The mouth is a mirror of the body and often displays symptoms of a systemic disease. We will discuss how we are important in the management and screening for diabetes, as well as the risk mitigating the risk for negative sequalae from osteoporosis, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular disease, and the prevention of adverse pregnancy outcomes.

Smoking and vaping have negative health consequences and behavior modification is important for treatment success. Novel concepts in oral hygiene and tobacco and vaping cessation will anchor our role as oral health care providers.

Course Objectives

1. Understand the pathogenesis of periodontitis and the interface with systemic health
2. Periodontal inflammation and systemic health: What do you tell your patients
3. Understand what systemic diseases have symptoms in the oral cavity.
4. Learn how optimizing oral health impacts the overall health of our patients
5. Incorporate wellness concepts into our maintenance practices.

The educational teaching methodology used in this course is a lecture presented via live webinar in concert with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation. Both the live lecture and the PowerPoint presentation incorporate a variety of audio and visual cues to enhance audience members’ understanding and retention of key concepts. In addition, audience participation will be encouraged and facilitated by group discussions as well as question and answer periods provided for at the conclusion of each section of the live webinar."

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