LLYADHA CONTINUING EDUCATION

Fall  2010

A wealth of enriching, evidence-based continuing education is being provided to you this year. We hope that you will join us for excellent learning opportunities, great networking, wonderful friendships, and the empowerment to continue to succeed in your profession. Preregistration will insure a copy of the handouts.  Dentists, EFDA’s, and Assistants are also welcome to attend.  Courses are submitted for approval by the Pennsylvania Academy of Dental Hygiene Studies and as an ADA CERP Provider. As approvals are received, it will be noted on the web-site.  Thanks for all your support.

Please share this information will the entire office staff.

Registration & Continental Breakfast  8:00 AM

Course intended to meet the newly established requirements from DEP in Pennsylvania.

Saturday, August 21, 2010 8:30-12:30pm “Radiology Facts – What You May Have Forgotten Over Time”  4 CEU'S

Presented by:   Kathy Schlotthauer, RDH  M Ed

Radiology Coordinator, HACC

Registration Deadline : August 7, 2010

Refresh your memory and gain a better understanding of how x-rays are generated, how the various factors impact the outcome of your radiographs, how to correct technical and processing errors that may occur, suggested checklists for quality controls, and how to keep both you and your patients safe.  The focus will be on intraoral radiographs and include digital information.  This course will serve as a basic overview of radiographic principles.

Location:   Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg Campus

Registration Deadline:    August 7, 2010

August 21, 2010 9:00-12:00 pm or 1:00-4:00 pm “Improve Your Radiographic Technique”

(Limited to 15 each session)

Presented by:   Tammy Spackman, RDH, AS

Kathie Nace Zimmermann, RDH, M Ed.

Kathy Schlotthauer, RDH, M Ed.

3 ceu’s

Opportunity will be provided with instruction to improve your radiographic skills on direct digital systems, indirect digital systems, and regular film.  The participant will learn placement techniques for both parallel and bisecting technique to improve radiographic outcomes.  Various positioning devices will be available  for you to try.  This is a hands-on course so participation is limited to 15 in each section.

Please register for the second section if you wish to take both sessions including the morning lecture session.   If you only want the hands-on session, please opt for the morning session.   Additional courses may be set up if requests indicate the need.

Lunch for those staying for both morning and afternoon session:  $10.00

Location:   Harrisburg Area Community College, Harrisburg Campus

Registration Deadline:    August 7, 2010

LOCATION:

Harrisburg Area Community College

Select Medical Health Pavilion

SM – 211-213 (Lecture Hall)

SM – 106 (Clinic)

One HACC Drive

Harrisburg, PA 17110-2999

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Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:00 AM

Course sponsored by GC America

Friday, September 10, 2010   8:30-12:30 “Identify, Prevent, & Restore…Protocols for CAMBRA

Presented by:  Robin DiPace

4 ceu’s

This course is designed to provide an overview of CAMBRA and the overall goals of MI Dentistry. Dental Health Professionals will learn the role of saliva and techniques for recognizing risk factors through saliva testing. Protocols for remineralization methods will also be discussed. Learn how to determine which patients, why, and when you should conduct saliva assessments and a few options that lead to achieving optimal oral health.

Learning Objectives

Robin DiPace is the Northeast MI Specialist for GC America since 2007. She works closely with her District Sales Managers to educate Dental Health Professionals in the Northeast on Minimum Intervention Dentistry. She utilizes her 20 years dental hygiene sales experience with preventive products to educate Dentists, Dental Hygienist’s and Dental Assistants about remineralization and saliva testing with GC America’s MI Paste, Triage, and Saliva Check Buffer and Mutans tests.

In addition to conducting product presentations to Dental Hygiene Schools, Study Clubs, and large group practices, Robin also works with Key Opinion Leaders setting up CE Courses for Dental Hygiene Components, Study Clubs, and Dental Association meetings.

Location:              Harrisburg Area Community College

Lancaster Campus

East Building 203

Registration Deadline:   September 1, 2010

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Registration & Continental Breakfast 8:00 AM

Designed to meet the Infection Control Course Requirements in Maryland as well as the Required Annual Update for CDC/ OSHA

Friday, October 1, 2010   8:30 am-12:30 pm “What’s Bugging You?  What’s New in Infection Control?”  4CEU's

Presented by :  Louis G. DePaola, DDS, MS

Department of Oncology & Diagnostic Sciences,

University of Maryland

In October of 2007, CDC released the updated Guideline for Isolation Precautions: Preventing Transmission of Infectious Agents in Healthcare Settings 2007. Included in this document are recommendations for updating of Standard Precautions and there are significant modifications that impact the delivery of healthcare. More recently CDC published an updates Guideline for Disinfection and Sterilization in Healthcare Facilities, 2008, which includes dental offices. A thorough review of these new CDC Guidelines as well as the Guideline for Infection Control in Dentistry, 2003 and other current CDC/OSHA infection control recommendations will be presented. The principles of respiratory etiquette, to lessen the spread of colds and flu, will be discussed as well as steps that may be taken to reduce the impact of potential pandemic influenza, such as bird and swine flu. Emphasis will be placed on compliance issues pertaining to the new 2007 & 2008 CDC Guidelines and how a practical, cost effective “safe workplace” can be achieved into the next millennium. This course fulfills CDE requirements for infection control and requirements for annual OSHA training.  Maryland licensure requires 4 hours of Infection Control each renewal period.

Dr. DePaola is Professer and Chairman of the Clinical Operations Board at the university

of Maryland Dental School;  Executive Director of the Biosafety, Clinical Operations

Board, Dental School;  Director, Emergency Clinic, Dental School, Director, Dental

Training, Pennsylvania Mid-Atlantic AIDS Education and Training Center (MAAETC);

Director, Dental School PLUS Program; and Coordinator, Infection Control and Biosafety

Location:               Susan P. Byrnes Health Education Center

York, PA

Registration Deadline:  September 15, 2010

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Wednesday, October 13, 2010   7:00-9:00 pm “TMJ Disorders, What the Dental Team Needs to Know"

Presented by:  Dr. Harry P. Meyers

2 ceu’s

This course will cover the anatomy, physiology, assessment techniques, and the range of disorders that are related to the temporomandibular joint.  Dr. Meyers will also present some of the treatment  options available to your patients.  This is a course that is of benefit for those administering and planning to administer anesthesia.

It has been quite awhile since Dr. Harry Meyers spoke to the hygiene association.  He is warm with a wonderful sense of humor.  Graduates of HACC are most familiar with Dr. Meyers as he teaches both Oral Pathology and Pharmacology  at HACC.  Dr. Meyers also has donated much time to the underserved both locally in the Harrisburg area as well as the Indian Reservations and in South America.

Location:  Lancaster HACC

Business Meeting will start at 6:30 PM.  Please be prompt.

Registration deadline:  October 1, 2010

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Registration & Continental Breakfast  8:00 AM

Course Sponsored by Proctor & Gamble – Also Consider for CE Credit for the Public Health

Dental Hygienists

Saturday, November  13, 2010  8:30-12:30pm

“Is Your Practice Ready for the Older Adult Population Explosion?

4ceu’s

Presented by:  Jocelyn Dillon, RDH, MA

Chair, Dental Hygiene Department

New York City College of Technology

The older adult population will increase from 35 million in 2000 to 69 million in

2030. Those older than fifty five will increase from 59 million in 2000 to 74 million in 2010. Consequently there is a need for specific treatment planning, management and modification. This course will discuss challenges that are specific to treating older adults and will present disparate aspects of professional planning and care.

Upon completion of this course the learner will be able to:

In addition, the participants will learn oral care information for the older adults and modifications that are necessary based on oral conditions and functional changes.

Upon completion of this course, the learner will be able to:

A faculty member at City Tech’s Dental Hygiene Department (the oldest dental hygiene program in New York City) since 1990, Dillon has been chair of the department since 2007.

Residing in the Flatlands section of Brooklyn, Dillon was born in Trinidad, West Indies, and immigrated to the United States, with her parents when she was a teenager.

After earning an AAS degree from City Tech and New York State dental hygiene licensure in 1975, she went on to graduate with a BS in dental hygiene and an MA in health education, both from Columbia University. She has been practicing clinical dental hygiene for more than 30 years.

While she was studying for her graduate degree, she worked as an educator in several New York City dental hygiene programs, including Hostos Community College, City Tech and New York University.

Dillon shares her expertise by lecturing at top professional meetings, including the Dental Hygienists Association of the City of New York, the Greater New York Dental Meeting (an international event that draws dentists and hygienists from more than 30 states and several countries), the National Dental Hygienists Association and, quite recently, at an International Week Dental Hygiene Conference in Amsterdam, Holland.

Dillon was recently reappointed to her second five-year term as one of three dental hygienists on the 17-member New York State Board for Dentistry — a body that handles discipline, legislation and licensure matters for dentistry, dental hygiene and dental-assisting professions in New York. She also serves as an examiner and member of the steering committee for the Northeast Regional Board of Dental Examiners — a group that administers dental and dental hygiene licensing examinations in 16 northeastern American states.

Location:  Harrisburg Area Community College

Lancaster Campus

East Building 203

Registration Deadline:   November 1, 2010

An anesthesia continuing education course required for relicensure for those already certified in local anesthesia is planned for January with Dr. Sean Boynes.  Professor Hairston will also offer a head and neck anatomy review.  We will post the date as soon as it is determined.