Month: March 2011

The Real Truth about Oral Cancer Screening Devices
with Cris Duval, RDH

April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month so it’s an appropriate time to take a look at the controversy that’s surrounded some of the most popular oral cancer screening systems over the past couple years.  On this call, I’ll interview Cris Duval, national speaker, coach and oral cancer activist. She’s a self-described overall health lifeguard and patient coach. Cris is a shining example of a hygienist that takes her role as healthcare professional very seriously.  If you’ve never heard her speak, you must attend this telephone seminar as she shares her insight and amazing communication skills that get patients to consistently ask for an oral cancer screening. On the call, Cris will share:

• New updates on the state of oral cancer in the US
• The truth about the studies that question the efficacy of oral cancer screening tools
• Why we must be using a detection device other than our own eyes and hands
• How to get patients to help you market this service to your community

I hope you’ll join us.  If you’re not a member of our Hygiene Profits Mastermind, try it FREE for 2 months.  Go to HygieneMastermind.com for all of the details and to sign up.

Stay Inspired,

Rachel

If you’re like most dental folks, you’ve had a patient that has experienced less than ideal results with perio therapy, a restoration, whitening, whatever it may be. I know I have. And it always interests me that the first thought we often have is ‘what did I do wrong?’ We often think it’s our fault first. Maybe we didn’t remove all the calculus, maybe the margin wasn’t perfect. And while we certainly must continually do our own personal quality control, often there are outside factors that influence the outcome.

I’ll write an entire article about this soon but for today, let’s just think about what those outside factors could be.  If you’ve been disappointed in a perio outcome, it could be that the patient’s immune system is overloaded dealing with inflammation in the body and it’s too busy to assist in proper healing. It could be (ok-it definitely is) that darned overhang or poor margin on the restoration on that tooth or maybe it’s their smoking habit or the fact that they’ve had the same spool of floss since 1999. And it could be their poor nutrition too. Their body may not have the essential building blocks for a strong immune defense.

On our March 17 Hygiene Profits Mastermind training call, I’m hosting Dr. Jason Luchtefeld as he presents how nutrition can affect perio and caries risk and a few things we may not think to ask our patients about nutrition.

And don’t forget, we now offer CE credit for every Mastermind call and this month it will be a clinical CE credit. Check it out. I know I’m going to be learning a lot.

If you’re not a member but want to join us for the call, sign up for a 2-month free trial membership. You’ll not only get to attend the tele-class, but you’ll also receive 2 months of CDs and transcripts of our events plus private coaching opportunities and much more (you’ll only pay $9.95 for shipping). Grab the trial offer today!

Stay Inspired,

Rachel