2020 Catalog: All Courses

The Dental Hygiene Concepts Course is composed of didactic instruction designed to provide Registered Dental Hygienist current education focused on clinical skills required for competent patient care, planning, and implementation of optimal dental hygiene treatment.

Tuesday, April 21, 2020 [Day 1]
7:30 - 8:00 Registration
8:00 - 8:15 Welcome and overview of the course agenda
8:15 – 10:00 Periodontal Treatment Protocol [PTP] for the Public Health Practice Periodontal; Classification Update- Eric Jewel DDS
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 12:00 Dental Sterilization-LCDR Emily Warnstadt RDH, BS
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch [on your own]
1:00 - 3:00 Dentrix Update and IHS Oral Health Status Metric- Joel Knutson DDS
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 5:00 Coding the Adult Patient- LCDR Jennifer Curtis RDH, MHA
Wednesday, April 22, 2020 [Day 2]
8:00 – 9:45 Surgeon General’s Report on Oral Health- Admiral Tim Ricks DDS
9:45-10:00 Break
10:00 - 12:00 Dentistry’s Role in Forensic Identification - Dr. Michael Tabor DDS
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch [on your own]
1:00 - 2:45 Vapor/Cannabis Smoking- Brenda Kibbel RDH, MPH
2:45 – 3:00 Break
3:00 – 5:00 Dental Ethics- Gwendolyn Battiste, RDH, MPH   
Thursday, April 23, 2020 [Day 3]
8:00 - 9:45 Pediatrics Dentistry-Dr. Scott Williams DDS
9:45 - 10:00 Break
10:00 - 12:00 HPV-related oral cancer/how to implement HPV vaccinations- Dr. Nathan Mork DDS
12:00 - 1:00 Lunch [on your own]
1:00 - 3:00 Community Based Programs - CDR Colleen White RDH, MPH
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 – 4:15 IHS Dental Hygiene Executive Committee Meeting – [IHS RDHs]
4:15 - 5:00 Periodontal Expanded Function Educator Meeting- CDR Colleen White RDH, MPH

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
a.   Review periodontal best practices and discuss how to implement a periodontal treatment protocol.
c.   Review recent Dentrix updates and understand the new periodontal classification.
c.   Discuss ways to educate patients and guardians about vapor and cannabis health related conditions.

Joel Knutson — Dental Informatics and Project Manager for the IHS Electronic Dental Record For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at joel.knutson@ihs.gov.

Brenda Kibbel — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at bkibbel@tnstate.edu.

Gwendolyn Battiste — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at gkeeton@Tnstate.edu.

Scott Williams — Commissioned Corps For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at scott.williams@ihs.gov.

COLLEEN WHITE — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at colleen.white@ihs.gov.

Timothy Ricks — Director, Office of Public Health and Area Dental Officer For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at tim.ricks@ihs.gov.

Nathan Mork — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at nathan.mork@ihs.gov.

Michael Tabor — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at ddsid@smilesareyou.com.

Jennifer Curtis — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jennifer.curtis@ihs.gov.

Eric Jewell — - Commissioned Corps entry date 8/2/2004 - Area and national Perio consultant. Sells Service Unit, IHS Sells Indian Hospital PO Box 548, Sells, AZ 85634 - pedodontist [rotates between Sells & San Xavier] For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Eric.Jewell2@ihs.gov.

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It is the policy of the Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, that faculty/planners disclose any financial or other relationships with commercial companies whose products may be discussed in the educational activity. The Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, also requires that faculty disclose any unlabeled or investigative use of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Images that have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes are prohibited.

None of the faculty/planners for this activity has a conflict of interest, and there is no use of unlabeled or investigative pharmaceutical products or medical devices. No images have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes.The educational objectives, content, and selection of educational methods and instructors are conducted independent of any commercial entity.

The IHS Division of Oral Health is an accredited sponsor of continuing education under the American Dental Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (CERP). ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the IHS at IHS CDE Coordinator or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ada.org

Please Make Checks Payable to: Indian Health Service.

Tuition must be paid in full 8 weeks prior to the start date of any course. Request for refunds must be received in writing at least two weeks before the course begins. For each refund request, there will be an administrative charge of $100. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to attend a course. If IHS CDE program cancels a course, then 100% of the tuition will be refunded.