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HYGIENE TRIBUNE
The World’s Dental Hygiene Newspaper · U.S. Edition
May 2012 — Vol. 5, No. 4
www.dental-tribune.com
Hygienists in Phoenix, June 13–19
Exhibitors, C.E., networking highlight 89th ADHA session
A number of sessions have already sold
out at the American Dental Hygienists’
Association Center for Lifelong Learning
at the 89th Annual Session. But plenty of
opportunities remain open as the June
13-19 meeting approaches.
The Phoenix Convention Center’s west
building is expected to be filled with
more than 2,000 dental professionals
representing various dental-profession
sectors and career stages. Certainly the
focus is on dental hygienists, but the annual session includes educational and
networking opportunities of benefit to
all members of the dental-practice team.
Highlights include a two-day-long
exhibition hall, two plenary sessions
designed to get the days started on fun,
inspirational notes and, of course, the
three days featuring 28 unique C.E. sessions divided into six tracks: clinical
practice, public health, education, research, professional development and
new hygienist. There also is a separate
student track. A total of 24 C.E. hours are
available.
This year's theme is “Navigating
through a changing profession and seizing the opportunities of tomorrow.”
Among the topics of the Center for Lifelong Learning sessions: “Chaos to Resolution: The Dental Professional’s Role in
Mass Fatality and Forensics,” “Advanced
Concepts in the Evaluation, Assessment
& Care of Dental Implants,” “Entrepreneurship: the Business Practice of Dental
Hygiene,” “Broadening Dental Hygiene
Services Through Community-Based
Programs,” “Dental Hygiene Fitness: Secrets for Comfort & Career Longevity,”
“Human Papilloma Virus: Implications
for Dental Hygiene Practice,” “Taking the
Mystery out of Teaching Critical Thinking” and “The Ins and Outs of Polishing:
Why, Why Not and When?”
On Thursday, June 14, from 1 to 2:30
p.m. there is a selection of 15 different “Lunch & Learn” sessions, with box
lunches for all participants. Each table
topic is limited to nine registered participants per table. Quite a few of the choices
already are filled up, but others still have
slots open. Among the still-open sessions
as of mid May: “Calming Dental Anxiety,”
“The Role of Inflammation in Periodontal Disease and Rheumatoid Arthritis,”
“Minorities in Dental Hygiene,” “Forensic
Dentistry: How to Get Involved,” “School-
Downtown Phoenix seen from the Sonoran Desert , framed by an iconic saguaro cactus. Photo/
Provided by www.peterjordanphoto.com and Greater Phoenix Convention and Visitors Bureau.
Based Sealant Programs” and “Integrating Preventive Oral Health Measures in
Health Care Practice.”
An annual Community Service Day
on Wednesday, June 13, provides 50 attendees the opportunity to go to a local senior center to provide oral health
and oral cancer screenings, toothbrush
prophylaxis, fluoride varnish and oral
health education. Preregistration for this
event was required and the registration
deadline has passed. It’s sponsored by
the ADHA, the ADHA Institute for Oral
Health and DentalEZ Group.
On the “just-for-fun” side of things,
a number of area tours are available
through the meeting website, including
a visit to the Grand Canyon and a tasting tour of area vineyards. There’s even
a night-vision Hummer tour through the
pitch-black Sonoran Desert, featuring
spectacular views of the night sky and
desert wildlife. A barbecue dinner is included, complete with campfire, cowboy
guitarist and a country western band.
Many of these group tours sell out quickly so you're encouraged to sign up. soon.
Event registration and details are available via a link on the association’s website, www.adha.org. The association can
be contacted at (312) 440-8900.
(Source: American Dental
Hygienists' Association)
‘Pros in the Profession’ winner named
Crest Oral-B selects fifth of six recipients to be honored in 2012
Crest® Oral-B® has selected Olga Torres, RDH, of Clewiston, Fla., as the fifth
winner of the brands’ second annual
Pros in the Profession® award program, which honors registered dental
hygienists who go above and beyond
the call of duty every day.
Torres has been practicing dental
hygiene for five years, holding a dental hygiene degree from Palm Beach
Community College. She also works as
the sole dental hygienist at the Florida
Community Health Center.
Torres frequently works with pediatric patients, sometimes seeing up to
15 children a day for dental cleanings.
She has a passion for these patients
and dedicates much of her free time
to giving presentations to both kids
and their parents to teach them about
the importance of oral health. She also
uses her bilingual skills to communicate with migrant patients facing language barriers in her community.
Olga Torres, RDH
Photo/Provided by Crest Oral-B
When Torres is not working or volunteering, she is in school part-time pursuing a bachelor’s degree or spending
time with her 16-year-old daughter.
She also guest-hosts a local radio show
a few times a year, covering a variety
of dental health and hygiene
topics.
Torres relies on Crest and
Oral-B products for maintaining her own oral hygiene,
as well as that of her patients.
Among her favorite products
is the Crest and Oral-B ProHealth For Me Collection for
her pre-teen patients.
Throughout the year, a total of six
deserving professionals will be named
this year’s Crest Oral-B Pros in the Profession winners.
Winners receive a plaque; a $1,000
monetary award; recognition at an
awards cocktail reception at RDH’s
"Under One Roof 2012" annual meeting in Las Vegas; tribute in dental trade
media news announcements and on
www.dentalcare.com; and an exclusive
trip to Proctor & Gamble Co. headquarters in Cincinnati.
The Crest Oral-B Pros in the Profes-
sion program recognizes registered
dental hygienists who go above and
beyond the call of duty every day.
Throughout the year, Crest Oral-B rewards a selection of deserving professionals, as nominated by their peers,
who truly make an impact on patients
and the oral health cause.
To learn more about the program,
visit www.prosintheprofession.com.
For information about Crest Oral-B
products and resources, you can visit
www.dentalcare.com.
(Source: Crest Oral-B)
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Hygienists help in forensics
RDHs critical in documenting patients’
unique, permanent oral characteristics
Patricia Walsh, RDH,
BS, has been a clinical
dental hygienist for
more than 20 years.
She is a graduate of the
Fones School of Dental
Hygiene, University of
Bridgeport in Connecticut. She has an extensive history in international volunteer work
in oral health, including The Thailand Dental Project, a volunteer
program onproviding educational, preventive
and restorative dental care to children in a tsunami affected region of Thailand. She may be
contacted at pwalshrdh@uberhygienist.com.
By Patricia Walsh, RDH, Hygiene Tribune Editor in Chief
The Rhode Island fire of 2003 was the
fourth deadliest in U.S. nightclub history.
Ninety-six people perished on the night
of the fire, four more in the hospital later
on. The staff of the local medical examiner’s office was completely overwhelmed.
The services of many dentists were needed to help bring peace and closure for the
families of the victims.
Without a standing local identification team, matching dental records was
a monumental task. The state of Connecticut took note of this tragedy and
quickly formed the Dental Identification
Response Team or DIRT for short. I was
encouraged by my boss, Dr. Tom Brady,
to become a member of the American
Society of Forensic Odontology. Dr. Brady
had many years of service as a police
constable to add to our response team
knowledge base. Each year, as members
of one of the three teams (antemortem,
postmortem, comparison), we continue
our education in disaster preparedness.
The annual American Society of Forensic Odontology meeting is routinely held
the third week in February and attracts
dental professionals from around the
world. During a course entitled “Beyond
IDs and Bitemarks,” I had the privilege to
be seated next to the only forensic odontologist from the nation of Senegal.
This particular dentist, an army colonel, had made the trip for continuing education for the past five annual meetings.
I noticed that several of his uniform insignias were against a purple velvet background. They reminded me of the purple
velvet ribbon that graced my nursing cap
from the Fones School of Dental Hygiene.
I suppose some things dental are universal. During lunch I found myself sitting
between a doctor who works hand-inhand with the Canadian Mounted Police
and a woman dentist from Korea.
While my focus was on community
preparedness, there were other areas covered at the meeting as well. These specialties included preparation for court testimony in civil litigation, child or spousal
abuse evidence and professional fraud.
The director of our state forensic team
is on call 24/7 and works closely with the
medical examiner. The initial response
team is responsible for assessment, site
evaluation and personnel planning. The
substrata of individual teams are trained,
but may or may not have experience in
forensic dentistry. We are available on 48hour notice. We need to be capable of augmenting or relieving the initial response
team during mass disaster. Training
includes a familiarization of the WinID
(www.winid.com) or standardized charting system used by the medical examiner’s office. It is not vastly different from
those seen in any U.S. dental office. Most
dental professionals catch on quickly. The
software can be downloaded for home
study. The Katrina response was the first
time digital radiography was used by
a U.S. identification team. A 12-pound,
handheld radiation source, the Aribex
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Left, a typical WinID
examination chart used in
medical examiner offices
in the United States. Right,
example of remains
needing identification.
Below, X-ray documenting
unique dental
characteristics. Photos/
Provided by Dr.
Adam Freeman
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Nomad, enabled easy access to victims.
Its initial implementation by other teams
was after the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. The manufacturer has responded
to the needs of dental teams by making
modifications. It has reduced the overall weight of the unit to five pounds and
increased the battery life. The American
Dental Association is currently working
on a common “language” to facilitate the
translation of our routine Dentrix charting to the WinID system via a centralized
computer base. There is federal mandate
that all dental and medical records be
computerized by 2017. This will greatly
assist forensic teams in the future when
comparison matches need to be made.
Winnie Funari, a forensic dental hygienist who frequently lectures about her 9/11
experiences, was on the ADA committee
charged with developing these important
changes. She is immensely proud of the
fact that 50 percent of the post-9/11 identification team members were dental hygienists.
Typically when dental remains are used
in forensic identification via DNA, it is
the molar that is used because of its large
pulp. A noncarious molar is preferred to
minimize compromised DNA. In a cataclysmic event, the molar is most likely
protected by thick cheek tissues, thus less
likely to have been damaged by extremes
in temperature. The molar is the tooth
class richest in DNA and the root body is
the anatomical region with the highest
concentration of DNA.
Standardization of dental charting
greatly increases the likelihood that remains can be identified. Hygienists play
a critical role in the documentation of a
patient’s unique permanent oral characteristics. Meticulous record keeping and
up-to-date quality radiographs are essential to assist law enforcement or disaster
response teams. Beyond the charting of
missing and existing dentition, dental
hygienists need to document what makes
each and every patient truly “different.”
Is it their cusp of carabelli, rotated bicuspid, peg lateral or large tori? Is there
an oddly positioned impaction, macro-
dontia or microdontia? Hygienists can
ease the burden of those working long
hours, often in a difficult environment,
by simply doing their day-to-day job well.
Mass casualty situations are emotionally tiring and difficult times. Response
teams should not have to waste precious
hours trying to understand chart notations or searching for good radiographs.
A decrease in the use of amalgam only
augments the need for detailed patient
records. Hygienists are ideally suited for
assisting authorities with antemortem
(predeceased) information on dentures,
ortho appliances, or dental photographs.
All persons possess an identity during
their lifetime, and the dignity of confirming and maintaining this identity
after death is a strong compelling societal need. Hygienists, as compassionate
health care workers, are ideally suited to
play an integral role in forensic organization and record keeping. We are already
trained, well-educated observers of the
human condition.
Hygienists wishing to learn more about
forensics can go to the following sites:
• American Society of Forensic Odontology (www.asfo.org): Continuing education credits; membership open to all dental professionals.
• American Board of Forensic Odontology (www.abso.org): Membership limited
to dentists.
• Center for Education and Research in
Forensics (www.utforensic.org): Weeklong
training courses.
• Disaster Preparedness Response (www.
ada.org/2390.aspx)
• National Disaster Medical System
(www.phe.gov/preparedness/responders/
ndms/Pages/default.aspx)
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References
CSDA DIRT manual 2007, Freeman, Marshall.
www.circle.ubc.ca/handle/2429/12029, The
effect of individual characteristics on forensic DNA evidence from human teeth,
Gaytmenn.
Forensic Dentistry and Dental Hygiene:
How can the dental hygienist contribute?,
Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene, July
2008, Fergusen, Sweet, Craig.
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