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HYGIENE TRIBUNE
The World’s Dental Hygiene Newspaper · U.S. Edition

October 2015 — Vol. 8, No. 5

www.dental-tribune.com

CODA approves accreditation process
for dental therapy education programs
The Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) voted in August to implement the accreditation process for dental
therapy education programs.
The CODA adopted accreditation standards for dental therapy education programs at its Feb. 6 meeting. Subsequent
to that, the CODA requested additional information from communities of interest
surrounding criteria 2 and 5 in its Principles and Criteria Eligibility of Allied Dental Programs for Accreditation document:
Criteria 2: Has the allied dental education area been in operation for a sufficient
period of time to establish benchmarks
and adequately measure performance?
Criteria 5: Is there evidence of need and
support from the public and professional
communities to sustain educational programs in the discipline?
On Aug. 7 the CODA determined that
these criteria had been met and voted to
implement the accreditation process for
dental therapy education programs. Currently there are two dental therapy education programs in Minnesota.
“The adoption and implementation of
dental therapy education standards is
a significant milestone,” said American
Dental Hygienists’ Association President
Jill Rethman, RDH, BA. “These new pro-

viders are helping to address unmet oral
health needs of the public and create a
new career path for dental hygienists.”

ADA, AGD response
The American Dental Association and
Academy of General Dentistry separately
issued statements in news releases in response to the accreditation step by CODA.
ADA: “The ADA believes it is in the best
interests of the public that only dentists
diagnose dental disease and perform surgical and irreversible procedures.”
AGD: “Over the past three years, we
have made it clear through testimony
and written comments to CODA that the
AGD has opposed the standards and their
implementation. The standards require a
curriculum of only three years post-high
school, and then these nondentists are
able to perform surgical and irreversible
procedures without requiring the direct
or indirect supervision of a dentist.”
The ADA and AGD have repeatedly contested the contention that challenges with
populations not receiving adequate oral
health care cannot be addressed through
expansion of existing programs.
In response to the decision by CODA
that criteria 2 and 5 had been met, AGD
President W. Mark Donald, DMD, MAGD,

said, “Clearly, the required criteria have
not been met. Dental therapy educational
programs are operational in only two
states, and diagnoses and surgical procedures by nondentists are illegal in 48
states. There is an obvious lack of widespread support from public or professional communities for dental therapy
programs.”

Highlights in the approved standards
Following are a few highlights from the
approved dental therapy standards:
Program length: The educational program must include at least three academic years of full-time instruction or its
equivalent at the postsecondary level.
Advanced standing: The program may
grant credit for prior coursework toward
completion of the dental therapy program. This credit may be given to dental
assistants, expanded function dental assistants and dental hygienists who are
moving into a dental therapy program.
Supervision: The dental therapist provides care with supervision at a level
specified by the state practice act.
Scope of practice: Dental therapy’s
minimal scope of practice is outlined in
the standards by listing the competencies required within the dental therapy

Commentary

Travels in
Williamsburg,
Va., inspire
Editor in
Chief Patricia
Walsh, RDH,
to thoughts
of no-shows,
patients in
pain and
some of the
latest
offerings in
scheduling
apps. Photos/

Appointments in Williamsburg
Some things don’t change: Patients are looking for you. There
are apps that help them find you and show up as scheduled
This was my first long road
trip in many years. It struck
me how simplified traveling had become. I gleefully
zoomed past the Virginia
ummer comes early
toll booths at 65 mph with
to Colonial Williamsmy EZ Pass. My “navigation
burg. Poppies, our nalady” quickly directed me to
tion’s brilliant symbol
a gas station when I was lost
of remembrance, are in full
in the woods of Quantico.
bloom by Memorial Day.
Patricia
Walsh,
RDH
The Marriott app allowed
I just love the town’s wigme to check in for extra
maker’s shop, which also
points in advance. Ten years
would have doubled as the
ago, it is unlikely I would have understood
town barber shop. It was fashionable for
what WiFi actually was, and an app was
well-to-do young ladies to have their
still a mystery. If our Colonial forbearers
heads shaved at such shops prior to behad spotted me staring down at a rectaning fitted for a wig. By 1775, the year this
gular lighted object, it would have been an
living-history site is modeled on, the barepisode right out of Star Trek.
ber no longer extracted teeth. In 1745, by
My thoughts soon turned to the busiroyal decree, tooth extractions and bloodness of dentistry — and appointment
letting could be done only by physicians.
making. If you were living in a small town
It was the French king who first decided
in Virginia where there was no physician,
this was the right way to go; England’s
the barber would still step up and extract
George II soon followed suit.

curriculum. Some of the assessment
skills such as evaluation, charting, patient referral and radiographs are listed.
Preventive functions include, but are not
limited to: subgingival scaling and dental
prophylaxis; application of preventive
agents; dispensing and administration
of non-narcotic medications via oral or
topical routes as prescribed by a licensed
health-care provider based on state laws.
Restorative/surgical procedures include
simple extractions of primary teeth, fabrication of temporary crowns, pulp capping, preparation and placement of direct
restorations.
Relation to state statutes: All authorized
functions of dental therapists in the state
in which they practice must be included
in the curriculum at the level, depth and
scope required by the state.
Program director: The dental therapy
program director must be a licensed dentist or a licensed dental therapist who
possesses a master’s or higher degree and
must have a full-time administrative appointment as defined by the institution.
You can learn more about the dentaltherapy standards for accreditation online via www.adha.org/resources-docs/
CODA_Accreditation_Standards.pdf.

By Patricia Walsh, RDH
Editor in Chief

S

Patricia Walsh,
Hygiene Tribune

your tooth for you, royal decree or not. Unless, of course, his street pole was painted
blue and white versus red and white. Blue
and white stripes signified that the business did not involve blood.
When patients are in pain, they wish
to be seen right away. We live in a mobile society, and it’s become more and
more common for people not to have an

established dentist. I could write a book
about societal changes and the uptick in
last-minute dental-appointment cancellations. At one time or another, we have certainly all muttered: “That no-show space
could have been used by a patient with
urgent needs.”
” See WILLIAMSBURG, page B2


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“ WILLIAMSBURG, page B1
When I returned home from my holiday, I read an article in my local newspaper about a medical app that lets patients
schedule their own appointments online.
Patients also could fill out registration
forms and verify insurance acceptance.
While the concept seemed great, the
$250-per-month, per-doctor price tag
did not. I decided to investigate further.
Another app offered a starting price of
about $40 a month with each individual
staff member an added $10. The more
costly application offered real-time appointment slots with computer integration, enabling patients to instantly grab
the time slot they wished. Patients aren’t
seeing your entire schedule, just a short
list of available appointments. A patient
in pain will drive a long ways if it means
being seen that same day or on a Saturday.
These applications seem so much easier
than surfing through the Yellow Pages
and making countless calls. Plus, there is
the added stress of guessing if your insurance is accepted.
During regular business hours, it seems
that there is only one “instant-message”
of difference between the higher-cost and
lower-cost app service: patients directly
placing their names into an office scheduling software system. Unless the receptionist is extremely busy, out for lunch,
or just not paying attention — I don’t see
where there would be much of a time lag
between a request for an appointment
and a confirmation when comparing
Everseat and ZocDoc.
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Torsten Oemus t.oemus@dental-tribune.com
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Left, in Colonial times, if you had a tooth that
needed to be pulled and there was no doctor in
town, you went to the barber (despite a royal
decree against it), whom, if you were a
well-to-do young woman, could also shave your
head for a wig fitting. Above, poppies bloom in
Williamsburg this summer.

Editor in Chief Hygiene Tribune
Patricia Walsh, RDH feedback@dental-tribune.com
Managing Editor
Robert Selleck r.selleck@dental-tribune.com
Managing Editor
Fred Michmershuizen
f.michmershuizen@dental-tribune.com
Managing Editor
Sierra Rendon s.rendon@dental-tribune.com

In terms of hygienists working on commission, they are typically tethered to
their cell phone and prefer to be the single “point of contact.” Regardless of the
pay structure, hygienists with too many
holes in their schedule run the risk of losing office hours. While ZocDoc may enable a patient flying in from Singapore to
schedule and confirm an appointment at
2 a.m., when an office is closed, I doubt this
particular app would have a big edge over
Everseat to “get the patient seen sooner.”
Also, while my knowledge of computing is
minimal, it seems to me some programs
may offer less of a chance for a dental office computer to become hacked or potentially infected with a subscriber’s virus.
Internet security questions will be preva-

lent as more and more scheduling apps
become available.
Most of the scheduling apps have a
dropdown menu for medical or dental
specialties. I liked the Everseat presentation that allows for the bio and photo of
the hygienist to be added separately from
the dentist’s information. On one of the
sites, a dropdown search yielded the word
“Dysport’ under specialties. Still being in
“dental-think” mode, my immediate reaction was “what the heck is dysport? One
of those new multicolored mouthguards
for hockey players?” I am now taking
great delight in the fact that I am not old
enough to be familiar with every popular
facial filler available at the dermatologist.
Having the name of your practice visible for the tech-savvy patient has become increasingly important. It needs to
be either in a search-engine return for
the prospective patient or a convenient
download application for the established
patient. Wouldn’t it make sense to have
your “appointment-app” logo highly visible while patients are tap-tap-tapping
onto their cell phone in the waiting room?
Tech attracts tech. I would even add the
app symbol to all print advertising and
the office website.
Having a dental office website with an
“appointment-request” option is not the
same as merely clicking onto a visible
available-appointment time.
Many hospitals are already starting to
offer this app option. It’s just a matter of
time before dentistry offers patients more
control over their appointment slots.
A patient cell phone app in the pipeline
is being developed by LocalMed.com. According to its website, “59 percent of GenY
respondents said they would switch doctors for one with better online access.” A
“schedule-now” widget by LocalMed gives
your office website direct integration with
Eaglesoft or Dentrix.
Patients also can use this widget to
schedule appointments through insurance company dentist directories. Current cost is $99 a month for two providers.
Following are brief descriptions of a few
other reliable medical apps that might be
of interest to dental professionals. Most
are free from iTunes.
• BetterDoctor (BetterDoctor.com) may
not support making appointments online, but it does give you the option of Yelp
reviews and supports “location finder” on
cell phones. According to the BetterDoctor
website, “No-show rates for same-day
appointments are half that for appointments made three weeks in advance.”
• The Medvana app (Medvana.com)
” See WILLIAMSBURG, page B4

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Hygiene Tribune U.S. Edition | October 2015

Profluorid Varnish
in easy dispenser
By VOCO America Staff

ADA
BOOTH
1813

VOCO has introduced Profluorid’s SingleDose, an operatory-dispenser that helps users of
Profluorid® Varnish keep the product in easier reach in
the operatory, eliminating needless trips to the storeroom.
According the company, Profluorid is a thin, pleasant
tasting, white transparent, 5 percent sodium fluoride varnish that has quickly become a popular choice among hygienists and their patients.
Profluorid seals off the dentinal tubules and offers high
immediate fluoride release to relieve hypersensitivity —
setting up in seconds after contact with saliva.
Enhanced flow characteristics enable Profluorid to reach
areas that traditional varnishes may miss.
Profluorid Varnish has an easy, non-messy single-

			
		
		

Profluorid seals off the dentinal tubules and offers high immediate fluoride release
to relieve hypersensitivity. It sets up in seconds after contact with saliva.
Photo/Provided by VOCO America

dose delivery system, helping to make the application
headache-free for users. This is complemented by a low
film thickness, light taste and a variety of flavors (cara-

mel, melon, cherry and mint) patients enjoy.
For more information on Profluorid Varnish you can
visit www.vocoamerica.com.

Start conversations with patients about doing the ‘Daily 4’
Throughout the month of October, the
American Dental Hygienists’ Association (ADHA) and the Wrigley Oral Health
Care Program (WOHP) are partnering for
the sixth straight year to provide dental hygienists and the public with a wide
range of resources and information as
part of National Dental Hygiene Month
(NDHM). This year’s campaign is focused
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on dental hygienists starting a conversation with patients about “Doing the Daily
4” — brushing teeth twice daily, flossing
each day, rinsing with an antimicrobial
mouthrinse and chewing sugar-free gum
after eating or drinking when brushing
isn’t possible.
This year’s NDHM will feature a number
of dental hygienist-focused initiatives, in-

cluding resources and materials geared to
help hygienists and patients start discussions about good oral health; samples and
educational materials that can be used for
community service projects and patient
education; a free continuing education
course for dental hygienists that looks at
the important role saliva can play in preventing oral health issues; and unique
dental hygienist-related contests through
social media.. Plus ADHA members will
receive a special thank you message from
the organization and the Wrigley Oral
Healthcare Program to help celebrate
them and the vital role they play in bettering the health of their patients.
In addition, for the sixth year the Wrigley Company Foundation, in partnership with the ADHA Institute for Oral
Health (IOH), will offer community service grants of $2,500 or $5,000 to dental
hygienists who are pursuing projects
intended to improve their community’s

oral health. Since 2010, more than 63,400
patients have already benefitted from this
program in the United States. More information about the grants and the IOH can
be found at www.adha.org/institute-fororal-health.
The ADHA encourages dental hygienists and the public to share their outreach
efforts and thoughts on Facebook (www.
facebook.com/youradha), via Instagram
(instagram.com/youradha) and with Twitter (twitter.com/ADHADOTORG). Include
the hashtag #NDHM2015 with your submissions. Resources also can be found on
the NDHM webpage at, www.adha.org/
national-dental-hygiene-month, including fact sheets in both English and Spanish and research on the benefits of chewing sugar-free gum after meals to help
prevent cavities and other oral health
problems.

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paper from a wallet. It is usually full of
crossed-out lines and scribbles, leaving
me to guess at the list I have to transcribe
into my computer.
• Pedicine (Pedicineapp.com) has an
initial download that is free, but adding
additional family members is $1.99 each.
This app stores useful family medical histories in a safe and convenient way.
Who can think straight enough to remember surgery dates and every allergy
when sitting stressed out in a waiting
room? Your phone can.

finds the lowest price for prescriptions
near you. I have first-hand experience of
a young patient pulling up this app while
still seated in the dental chair. In the time
it took for the doctor to write up the chart,
she already knew which pharmacy to go
to. The app is in English and Spanish.
• The First Aid app by the American Red
Cross, also in English and Spanish, uses
simple language and icons to help with
medical emergencies. It includes a preparation area for all sorts of emergencies.
• iTriage is a search app covering a broad
spectrum of health care, including doctors, symptoms and care facilities. Think
of it as an interactive WebMD. You tap on a
body part and a list of symptoms appears.
It can direct you to the appropriate specialist or facility. It supports 20 languages.
I’m looking forward to any future automations developed for the business of
dentistry, but also those that will assist
in the improvement of patient care. What
a joy it would be to “bump” a cell phone
to a patient’s phone to acquire their list
of medications and allergies. Right now I
patiently wait while the patient (often elderly) pulls out a crumpled piece of folded

(Sources: ADHA and WOHP)

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 being instrumental in
the creation of The Thailand Dental Project, a
volunteer

program

focused

on

providing

educational, preventive and restorative dental care
to children in a tsunami-affected region of Thailand.
Contact her at pwalshrdh@uberhygienist.com.


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Wireless and unconnected:

‘WireLess’ headlight
is self-contained
Designs for Vision’s new LED DayLite®
WireLess™ not only frees you from being
tethered to a battery pack, but the simple
modular design also uncouples the “WireLess” light from a specific frame or single
pair of loupes. Prior technology married
a cordless light to one pair of loupes via a
cumbersome integration of the batteries
and electronics into the frame. The compact design of the DayLite WireLess is independent of any frame/loupes.
The patent-pending design of the LED
DayLite WireLess is a new concept: a selfcontained headlight that can integrate
with various platforms, including your
existing loupes, safety eyewear, lightweight headbands and future loupes or
eyewear purchases. The LED DayLite WireLess is not limited to one pair of loupes or
built into a specific eyeglass frame. The
LED DayLite WireLess can be transferred

from one platform to another, expanding
your “WireLess” illumination possibilities
across your eyewear options.
The LED DayLite WireLess weighs only
1.4 ounces and, when attached to a pair
of loupes, the combined weight is half
the weight of integrated cordless lights/
loupes. The LED DayLite WireLess produces more than 40,000 lux at high intensity and 27,000 lux at medium intensity.
The spot size of the LED DayLite WireLess
will illuminate the entire oral cavity. The
function of the headlight is controlled via
capacitive touch.
The LED DayLite WireLess is powered
by a compact, rechargeable lithium-ion
power pod. It comes complete with three
power pods. The charging cradle enables
you to independently recharge two power pods at the same time and clearly displays the progress of each charge cycle.

ADA
BOOTHs
800, 3029

Micro Series: Smaller,
lighter, stronger
Designs for Vision is showing
the Micro Series together for the
first time this fall. The Micro 3.5EF Scopes
use a revolutionary optical design that reduces the size of the prismatic telescope
by 50 percent and reduces the weight by
40 percent, while providing an expanded-field full-oral-cavity view at 3.5x magnification.
The new Micro 2.5x Scopes are 23 percent smaller and 36 percent lighter than
traditional 2.5x telescopes, and enlarge
the entire oral cavity at true 2.5x magnification.
The Micro Series is fully customized
and uses the proprietary lens coatings for
the greatest light transmission.
You can “See the Visible Difference®”
yourself by visiting the Designs for Vision

The LED DayLite
WireLess headlight
can integrate with
various platforms,
including your existing
loupes, safety eyewear, lightweight
headbands and future loupes or eyewear
purchases. Photo/Provided by Designs for vision

booths, No. 800 or No. 3029, at the ADA
meeting, and booth No. 433 at the AAP
meeting. Or arrange a visit in your office
by calling (800) 345-4009 or emailing
info@dvimail.com.
(Source: Designs For Vision)

Best of Class, Technology: DentaPure
Waterline Treatment Cartridges

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BOOTH
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By Crosstex Staff

Pure® Waterline Treatment Cartridges
from Crosstex is one of those lauded as
“Best of Class.”
“To be honored as ‘Best of Class’ is a
Now in its seventh year, the Pride Instisign that a product has revolutionized,
tute’s “Best of Class” Technology Award
simplified or advanced its category in a
continues unparalleled in its integrity
distinctive way,” said Dr. Lou Shuman,
and approach to recognizing excellence
“Best of Class” founder. “The manufacin dental innovation. In 2015, Dentaturers represented here are driving the
conversation for how dental practices
will operate today and in the future. The
foundation for our success in bringing
attention to these products has always
been our formula: technology leadership
in dentistry, unbiased and not for profit.”
“Best of Class” honorees are chosen by
a panel comprising leading voices in dental technology, who come together each
year to discuss, debate and decide what
products merit recognition.
All technology categories are considered, but if there is no clear differentiator
that sets a product apart in its category,
then no winner is selected. Panelists who
receive compensation from dental
companies are prevented from
voting in that company’s category. Over the years, the
panel has developed a
rapport that lends
itself to candid
and insightful analyCrosstex DentaPure Waterline Treatment
sis
of
Cartridges earned top honors from the
the value
Pride Institute. Photos/Provided by Crosstex
of the dif-

ferent innovations and expansive conversations about how the evolving categories become more or less valuable to
the general dentist. The spirited debate
that follows results in a variety of products — obscure and well-known, basic
and aspirational — being honored.
“Technology decisions can be expensive and confusing for many doctors.
Our job as ‘Best of Class’ panelists is to
eat, sleep, live, breath and use technology
in our general practices in real, everyday
dentistry. We also have a chance to show
and discuss these products with dental
students and colleagues,” said Dr. John
Flucke, writer, speaker and technology
editor for Dental Products Report. “This
allows us to provide recommendations
that a doctor and staff can rely on to
make informed decisions regarding their
technology purchases.”
The panel consists of five dentists
with significant knowledge of and experience in dental technology, including
Shuman; Flucke; Paul Feuerstein, DMD,
writer, speaker and technology editor
for Dentistry Today; Marty Jablow, DMD,
technology writer and consultant for Dr.
BiCuspid; and Parag Kachalia, DDS, vicechair of preclinical education, research
and technology, University of Pacific
School of Dentistry.
“With each new product innovation —
infection control and prevention is our
No. 1 goal. The addition of DentaPure into
the Crosstex family of products allowed

us to offer a waterline treatment solution
that was not only effective and compliant, but also safe for our customers. To
learn that such an astute panel of dentists
selected DentaPure as ‘Best of Class’ is
not only an honor, but it is my hope that
the acknowledgement will have more
clinicians considering the treatment of
their dental unit waterlines to safeguard
patients and staff alike,” said Gary Steinberg, president and CEO of Crosstex.

About Crosstex
A division of Cantel Medical Corp., Crosstex manufactures a wide array of infection prevention and control products for
the health-care industry. Founded in 1953
and headquartered in Hauppauge, N.Y.,
Crosstex sells products, including face
masks, which are 100 percent manufactured in its FDA-registered New York facility.
Crosstex products are sold in more than
100 countries. In addition to the DentaPure Waterline Treatment Cartridges,
products include sterilization pouches
and accessories, patient towels and bibs,
surface disinfectants and deodorizers,
germicidal wipes, hand sanitizers, gloves,
sponges, cotton products, saliva ejectors,
evacuator and air/water syringe tips.
You can learn more and watch simple
installation videos at www.DentaPure.
com. You also can follow the company
online by visiting www.facebook.com/
CrosstexProtects.


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