CLINICAL MASTERY TRACK

The Clinical Mastery Track provides the skills and techniques to rise above the everyday restoratively focused practice.

Topics to be addressed by the speakers will include:

Maternal and Child Oral Health

• Pregnancy and early childhood – the start of lifelong oral health;
• Early childhood caries;
• Risk assessment and modification;
• Behavioral management of child and parent;
• Growth and development of the permanent dentition.

Adolescents and Young Adults

• Esthetics;
• Ortho assessment;
• Foundations for prevention into adulthood including minimal intervention, remineralizing agents;
• Oral malodor and diet and oral health

Oral Health Needs of Adults

• Changing medical status and oral health;
• Opportunities for interprofessional care;
• Managing esthetic needs;
• Maintain a healthy periodontium;
• Implants and/or endo?

Baby Boomers and Beyond

• Addressing the needs of a high disposable income segment and setting them on a pathway of oral health into later life;
• Medical relationships of sleep apnea, dry mouth and polypharmacy;