Successfully Treating Older Adults: Techniques for the Entire Dental Team

According to ADA statistics, 30% of the income in the typical general practice today comes from treating patients over 60. These aging boomers have a very different attitude towards dentistry than did their predecessors. They no longer consider tooth loss an inevitable consequence of aging and are willing to “put their money where their mouth is” if the dental team is trained to meet their unique needs. In this entertaining and informative presentation, solutions to common everyday problems that arise with older patients are clearly explained to give you increased confidence when treating seniors.

Registrations Ended

8 CE Hours

Subject Code:

750 - Geriatric Dentistry

When

Jan 12th, 2024
08:30AM-05:00PM Eastern Time
Add to Calendar

Where

Fountain Head Country Club
Meeting Room: Ballroom

13316 Fountain Head Road
Hagerstown, MD 21742
Get Directions

Schedule

Registration Sign-in and Continental Breakfast is scheduled from 7:45 - 8:30 am. The seminar will start promptly at 8:30 am. Lunch is included and typically will be from 12:30 - 1:00 pm. Your CE forms will be available for pick-up at our registration desk at the end of the day. Late registrations will have their CE form emailed the following week.

Parking: Complimentary. Use open lots.

Seminar Registrations Closed

Presented by Randy F. Huffines
DDS, FRCSEd

View Bio
PACE Academy of General Dentistry Program Approval for Continuing Education

This seminar's registrations are closed

Course Description

Geriatric Dentistry

According to ADA statistics, 30% of the income in the typical general practice today comes from treating patients over 60. That income will increase rapidly as the number of older patients double to over 79 million during the practice life of current dental team graduates. These aging boomers have a very different attitude towards dentistry than did their predecessors. They no longer consider tooth loss an inevitable consequence of aging and are willing to “put their money where their mouth is” if the dental team is trained to meet their unique needs.  Providing quality dental care for these patients can be very rewarding but also very challenging due to an array of complex dental and medical conditions that become more common as we age. In this entertaining and informative presentation, solutions to common everyday problems that arise with older patients are clearly explained to give you increased confidence when treating seniors.

 

Clinical Topics to be Covered Include:

  • Restoring root caries: matrixing, finishing, material selection
  • Marketing to Seniors
  • Adapting the new ADA preventive guidelines to older patients
  • Clinical importance of heterogenicity in aging
  • Managing xerostomia
  • Making your practice “senior friendly”
  • Tips for extracting teeth in older patients
  • Clinical tips for treating Alzheimer’s patients
  • The hazards of the medical clearance
  • Clinically important aging changes to enamel and dentin
  • Managing patients taking multiple medications
  • Adapting the new ADA restorative guideline to seniors
  • Pain control in seniors
  • Blood pressure myths
  • Managing patients with mobility problems
  • Periodontal disease and aging: facts versus fiction
  • Managing patients taking blood thinners
  • Adapting the new ADA antibiotic guidelines to seniors
  • Cardiovascular considerations
  • Current premedication guidelines
  • Dental considerations for stroke patients
  • New recommendations for patients taking bisphosphonates.
  • The dental team’s role in head and neck cancer prevention and treatment
  • Implants in older patients
  • Improving communication with the elderly
  • What the hygienist needs to know about edentulous tissue health
  • Treating oral viral and fungal infections in seniors
  • Legal pitfalls of dental clearance for physicians
  • Dental management of the Parkinson’s patient
  • Clinical tips for dentures and implant-retained overdentures
  • Esthetic dentistry considerations for seniors

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course the participants should be able to:

  1. Better treat adults with cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, Parkinson’s, COPD, and cancer.
  2. Properly manage patients on “blood thinners” (anticoagulants and antiplatelets)
  3. Describe the new bisphosphonate recommendations
  4. Apply the new ADA preventive guidelines to seniors (including SDF)
  5. Describe innovative techniques for restoring root caries
  6. Avoid communication problems with older adults
  7. Apply heterogeneity of aging to treatment planning
  8. Manage xerostemia with newly developed products
  9. Apply the new ADA antibiotic guidelines to seniors
  10. Dispel myths about periodontal disease and aging
  11. Discuss implant and innovative prosthetic techniques for seniors