Continuing Education

Saturday, October 2
8:00 am - 1:30 pm    4 CEU’s 
Registration:  8:00 am - 8:30 am                                                  
Lecture 8:30 am - 1:30 pm   
Buffet Breakfast 10:30 am - 11:00 am

Program Overview
As the numbers of aging women increase worldwide, dental professionals face significant challenges and opportunities. Recognizing gender specific concerns impacting the overall well-being of patients has become increasingly important. Women’s medical concerns such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and osteoporosis will be addressed along with their surprisingly strong influence on the oral cavity. The impact from medications and the oral manifestations they create will greatly determine how dental products should be utilized and tailored to meet specific needs. This presentation will detail the current research linking systemic disease with gingival and periodontal inflammation and the latest evidence-based technology impacting oral health and whole body wellness.

• Top Five Women’s Health Concerns Related to Aging
• Risk Factors to Systemic Disease & Oral Concerns from Medication
• Results from Nurses’ Health Study & Women’s Health Initiative
• Dental Management of Patients with Systemic Co-Morbidities
• Importance of Bone Health while Treating the Osteopenic/Osteoporotic patient

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Speaker:  Pam Hughes, RDH, MS                  
Pam has lectured internationally and throughout the United States on such topics as oral risk assessment, advances in therapeutic oral care products, women’s aging complexities and improving patient care with evidenced-based decision making.  She is a past President of the California Dental Hygiene Educators’ Association and a past President of the California Dental Hygienists’ Association.  Pam remains active in a general practice, has over 30 years of clinical experience in general and periodontal practice settings and holds a faculty position at the Ostrow School of Dentistry of University of Southern California, Division of Periodontology, Diagnostic Sciences and Dental Hygiene.

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State Continuing Education Requirements

The minimum requirement for each renewal period is 25 hours of continuing education, including: * Basic Life Support. Licensees renewing for the first time are exempt from this requirement.
* 2 hours of California Infection Control
* 2 hours of California Dental Practice Act

Note: Infection Control and California Dental Practice Act may be taken online at any of the registered continuing education web sites (below).

CE requirements changed as of April 8, 2010

Category I and Category II are no more, but there are topics that can be taken without limit, some topics that are limited to 20% of the units, and some that are not accepted at all. Only 50% of units can be “correspondence” (see 1017.h)

Registered Dental Hygienist in Alternate Practice
35 CE's for relicensure.
17 CE's can be home-study.
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