Louisiana Dental Hygienists Association Winter

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1 Louisiana Dental Hygienists Association Winter PRESIDENT S MESSAGE The LDHA s Board of Trustees has been busy working on our upcoming 2015 Annual Session. It will be held at The Hilton Garden Inn, 2015 Old Minden Road, Bossier City, Louisiana on March 6-7, Please mark your calendar!! A total of thirteen continuing educational hours will be offered this weekend and twelve of them are clinical hours. A special thanks to Tracy Jordan our 2015 Annual Session Chair, Kim Bourgeois who has been working with our vendors and Christy Wilson our Newsletter/Website Editor. I am AMAZED at how effortlessly they make it look. We have some very interesting speakers presenting as well as many vendors and some non dental vendors to check out at Annual Session. Also, each component is selling raffle tickets to win a free registration to our two day 2015 Annual Session. Please spread the word about our raffle. There will be a winner from each component!!! How great is that? You can also plan to participate in the Silent Auction which benefits the ADHA IOH. There are always great items to bid on. This year the Northeast Component and the Alexandria Component of the LDHA have begun again. I am very excited for this growth. I hope in the future the Lake Charles component will begin again as well! Louisiana was the only state in our district to participate in ADHA s Membership Campaign. A big thanks to Daisy Poole our Treasurer and Debbi Mitchell our Executive Secretary for compiling all the information the ADHA requested in order to participate. ADHA will be doing ALL of the mailings for us. WOW!! Membership has been one of my main goals as your president. Please encourage others to become members of ADHA. We ALL need to come together as hygienists to become a STRONGER organization. This is so that OUR organization can fight for US! I cannot begin to tell you how much I have learned from this journey. But I can tell you how touched I have been by all the hygienists I have met and worked with. The Board of Trustees has been a great support to me. I have enjoyed reading the s that I have received from all the hygienists this year. Thank you for allowing me to be your president. THANK YOU ALL!!! Terri Linzay, RDH - President, LDHA SILENT AUCTION Friday, March 6th, at the LDHA Annual Session, we will be hosting a silent auction to raise money for the ADHA Institute for Oral Health (IOH). Items will be on display at Annual Session on Friday for bidding. The mission of the IOH is to advance the profession of dental hygiene through scholarships, research and service in collaboration with the American Dental Hygienists Association. The goal of this organization is to support the highest quality research and education programs in order to fulfill the mission statement of the ADHA Institute for Oral Health. To find out more about the ADHA IOH please visit IOH Raffle tickets will also be available for purchase at the LDHA Annual Session! The LDHA IOH Auction will end at 5pm and all winners will pay for their item(s) at this time. HYGIENISTS DAY AT THE LEGISLATURE Again in May we will be having LDHA Day at the Legislature! The LDHA invites all RDHs who can come to attend. This is your opportunity to educate your legislators about your profession. Come and join members of your association as we host a display, talk with elected officials, and bring awareness to issues effecting Louisiana s dental professionals. We meet at the State Capital in Baton Rouge at noon! Be on the lookout for the date and more info on our website at OUR WEBSIITE The LDHA s website has a lot of information to keep you up-to-date on dental hygiene related things in Louisiana! Go to to see what s there! To find out about your local component, click on Continuing Education to find out what s going on in your local component! 1

2 Please join us at the Louisiana Dental Hygienists Association s 2015 ANNUAL SESSION March 6 & 7, 2015 Providing Up to 13 Clinical CE Hours Hilton Garden Inn, 2015 Old Minden Road, Bossier City, Louisiana Annual Session CE Descriptions & Schedules Friday, March 6, :15 a.m. 7:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast 8 a.m. 9 a.m. Speaker: Ta Boris Fisher Sponsored by OralID Title: OralID CE Hours: 1 Clinical Hours Educational Objectives: 1. Recognize the incidence and current etiologic factors related to oral and oropharyngeal cancer. 2. Identify subtle symptoms that may be suggestive of oral and oropharyngeal cancer. 3. Compare and contrast the value of the clinical oral examination and adjunctive screening methods utilizing direct fluorescence 9 a.m. 9:30 a.m. LDHA Lobbyist, Jane Burgin & LDHA Senior Delegate, Kim Bourgeois General Business Meeting/Nominations for LDHA Officers 9:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. Speaker: Mary Manhein CE Hours: 2 Clinical Hours Title: Anthropology & Forensic Dentistry This presentation will define the duties, capabilities, and limitations of those persons who work in the field of forensic science, especially the disciplines of forensic anthropology and forensic dentistry. Actual forensic cases, mass disaster cases, and cases of historic interest will be included. 11:30 a.m. 1 p.m. Lunch- Only for attendees registered for all day Friday! 12 p.m. 1 p.m. Speaker: Tom McNeely, DDS CE Hours: 1 Clinical Hours Complementary Lunch Time CE Title: Improving your patient's attractiveness, friendliness, trustworthiness, intelligence and self-confidence 1 p.m. 1:30 p.m. LDHA Nominations for Officers and Voting 1:30 p.m. 5:30 p.m. Speaker: Oday Lavergne CE Hours: 4 Clinical Hour Title: Postural Pain Patterns Improving your patient s attractiveness, friendliness, trustworthiness, intelligence and self confidence. Participants will learn to identify and refer postural dysfunctions to the appropriate health care provider, as well as the basics of treatment and corrective exercise. The Objectives for this course are to inform the Dentist, Dental hygienist and the Dental assistant on: Observing postural patterns of humans. Identifying postural patterns as causes of headaches, neck pain and cranial facial pain. Identifying postural patterns as sources of airway and breathing dysfunctions. Identifying postural patterns affecting growth and development. Identifying postural patterns as sources of occlusal dysfunctions. 2

3 2015 Annual Session CE Descriptions & Schedules Saturday, March 7, :15 a.m. 7:45 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast & LDHA Installation of Officers and Awards 8 a.m. 10 a.m. Speaker: Dr. Fiona Collins CE Hours: 2 Clinical Hours Title: Biofilm: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly This seminar will present information on current concepts related to biofilm and its management. Biofilm microorganisms are responsible for the major oral diseases caries and periodontal disease as well as playing a role in other disease mechanisms and conditions. Increasingly, the development and structure of biofilm and the self-protective mechanisms associated with biofilm have been understood. The concept of good and bad biofilm has also evolved. The development of microbial loads, competing and synergistic biofilm components play a role in their maturation and pathogenesis. Biofilm communication, microbial resistance and recent developments in biofilm science and diagnostics will also be addressed. Following a review of current data, the course will focus on the management of biofilm including mechanical therapies and chemotherapeutics that disrupt and/or reduce biofilm, as well as those that alter biofilm as an alternate strategy and new technologies will be provided during this seminar. 10 a.m. 12 p.m. Speakers: Dr. Trey Carlton & Dr. Courtney Richter CE Hours: 2 Clinical Hours Title: Respecting Physiology: Understanding Your Role in Patients Lives Hygienists do not simply treat teeth. They treat patients. As health care providers, hygienists should be able to recognize specific "flags" in a patient's mouth and health history, as well as changes in anatomy and physiology as they relate to a poor quality of life/overall health. Daily Headaches; Facial, Neck and Back pain; Migraines, Attention Deficit Disorders and Sleep Breathing Disorders affect millions of Americans. With proper education and screening techniques, dental team members (specifically the Dental Hygienists) can actually change lives. This presentation will help attendees identify signs and symptoms of larger health issues that are so often missed during routine evaluations. It will help hygienists put the "puzzle pieces" together to show the total body response to occlusal or breathing instability as well as direct them towards the best treatment options that are available. Specifically, the presenters will educate the audience about the importance of proper airway assessments on both pediatric and adult patients, how to screen for occlusal disease, show how to recognize the mouth's relationship to head and neck pain, and finally, comfortably understand when and how to refer for treatment. Drs. Richter and Carlton will show how advances in science and technology have given rise to new treatment modalities for developmental problems, Temporomandibular Disorders, facial Pain, severe occlusal instability and sleep breathing disorders. Most importantly, the attendees will leave with knowledge of how, with proper patient education, prevention of these diseases is possible. And you can earn 1 more CE hour by visiting all of the sponsor booths and turning in your signed card. 3

4 LDHA 2015 Annual Session Information LDHA NEWS The LDHA will now only be contacting members & potential members via . We will no longer mail out a yearly newsletter to keep costs down for the LDHA. So, please keep your address current with our LDHA Executive Secretary! She will also occasionally send out mass s to Louisiana Hygienists to inform you of current happenings about our profession! Debbi at ldha_execsecretary@hotmail.com. Also please forward this to any RDHs who did not receive it! The LDHA also has a Facebook Group. Search for the Louisiana Dental Hygienists Association and ask to join the group! Facebook is a great tool to use to network with hygienists all over the state! HOTEL RESERVATIION INFO Call today and make your hotel reservations by Thursday, February 5, 2015 for a special rate! Hilton Garden Inn reservation phone number: Special arrangements have been made for you to get a group rate on rooms for $109 per night for Thursday, Friday, & Saturday nights. The verification code for the group rate is LDHA. ADDRESS CHANGE? Make sure you keep your address and employer information current with the Louisiana State Board of Dentistry! NOT AN ADHA MEMBER? Go to and join the organization that supports YOU!!! 4 ONL IINE REG IISTRAT IION Register ONLINE at: tickets ?aff=eac2 REG IISTRAT IION BY MA IIL 1. Print pages 6 & 7 of this Newsletter 2. Fill out registration form with marked programs you are attending 3. Enclose check or money order payable to LDHA 4. Members of the ADHA must enclose a copy of membership for discount 5. Mail to: LDHA (Daisy Poole) 302 Dunnottar Place Lafayette, LA PLEASE NOTE Mail in your registration or register online! Onsite registration fee is $15.00, which will be allocated to the legislative fund. Please Register Early Seating is limited and applications are taken on a first come, first serve basis. There is a $35.00 banking fee for all NSF checks All funds are non-refundable Any questions, please contact: Tracy Jordan: tracyrdh@aol.com Daisy Poole: daisy_rdh@yahoo.com ANNUAL SESSIION CE HANDOUTS If any speakers have course documents available for printing before the Annual Session weekend, they will be available on the LDHA website. Please check the LDHA Website at

5 This year ADHA has adopted a new Strategic Plan. 1. Core Ideology: Lead the transformation of the dental hygiene profession to improve the public s oral and overall health. 2. Vision Statement: Dental hygienists are integrated into the healthcare delivery system as essential primary care providers to expand access to oral health care. 3. Values: Service, Collaboration, Quality, Community, Lifelong learning, Ethics. How will ADHA achieve this strategic plan? 1. Education: Strengthen collaborative partnerships to transform the formal education of dental hygiene professionals. Expand professional development opportunities for lifelong learners. Build stakeholder knowledge of the profession. 2. Alliances: Expand efforts to fund research to support dental hygiene integration within the healthcare system. Increase strategic partnerships with other provider organizations. Increase organized dental hygiene involvement in the development of new workforce models. 3. Advocacy: Target and support states with active legislation that support our mission. Educate states of all the ADHA legislative resources. Maximize representation with our national partners. Maximize the ability of dental hygienists to take advantage of opportunities in more integrated health systems After ADHA annual session this year I realized we can all do our part to help ADHA meet the goals of the new strategic plan even at a local level. Be more diverse in our local CE s by remembering the mouth and body connection. We need to continue to educate ourselves outside the mouth as well as in the mouth. We need to make sure we call the state board to make sure all our continuing education courses are acceptable. We need to stay connected to our local hygiene schools. Connect with our new students and teach them the importance of being a member of ADHA. Being a member gives us strength for our profession to grow. Support our Legislation Day! Though at times we may have no legislative activity, there will be years in which LDHA needs to advocate for certain bills to be passed. It s important to have a united front and make connections with the people who can help us get there. Legislation Day is an easy and fun day and it can help us achieve our professional goals just by spreading the word of what a hygienist is. Lastly, stay connected! This is one of the most vital ways our profession can grow. We can stay connected by websites and Facebook with national, state and local levels. We can also share information state to state! I realize all states have their own state laws in the hygiene community but we can share ideas with states that are pushing the profession forward! 5

6 LDHA 2015 Annual Session Registration Form Register ONLINE at: PLEASE PRINT Name: Last First MI confirmation receipt will be sent when form is processed. Address: Street City State Zip Code Phone: ADHA/SADHA Home Work/Cell Member# Amount Enclosed: $ Check # ($35 fee charged for NSF checks.) All funds are non-refundable ADHA Potential Friday, March 6, 2015 Member Member Student Registration/ Continental Breakfast: 7:15 a.m. 7:45 a.m. Speaker: Ta Boris Fisher, Sponsored by OralID Title: OralID Time: 8 a.m. 9 a.m. CE Hours: 1 Clinical Hours $20 $30 $10 MEETING: 9 a.m. 9:30 a.m. General Business Meeting/Nominations for LDHA Officers Speaker: Mary Manhein Title: Anthropology & Forensic Dentistry Time: 9:30 a.m. 11:30 a.m. CE Hours: 2 Clinical Hours $40 $60 $10 LUNCH: 11:30 a.m. 1 p.m. Included if attending all Friday Programs Speaker: Tom McNeely, DDS Improving Patient s Attractiveness, Friendliness, Trustworthiness, Intelligence Title: and Self Confidence 12 p.m. 1 p.m. Time: Lunch Time CE FREE if attending all Friday Programs CE Hours: 1 Clinical Hour FREE FREE FREE Speaker: Oday Lavergne Title: Postural Pain Patterns Time: 1 p.m. 5 p.m. CE Hours: 4 Clinical Hour $80 $120 $10 Saturday Registration Form Continued on next page 6

7 LDHA 2015 Annual Session Registration Form Register ONLINE at: Name: Saturday, March 7, 2015 ADHA Member Potential Member Student Registration/Continental Breakfast: 7:15 a.m. 7:45 a.m. Speaker: Dr. Fiona Collins Title: Biofilm: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly Time: 8 a.m. 10 a.m. CE Hours: 2 Clinical Hours $40 $60 $10 Speaker: Dr. Trey Carlton & Dr. Courtney Richter Title: Respecting Physiology: Understanding Your Role in Patients Lives Time: 10 a.m. 12 p.m. CE Hours: 2 Clinical Hours $40 $60 $10 EARLY BIRD SPECIAL!!! Includes ALL programs (12 Clinical CE Hours) and must be post marked by February 6, 2015 $150 $250 $30 REGULAR PRICE for All CE s All programs (12 Clinical CE Hours) Post marked after February 6, 2015 $220 $330 $40 Mail Registration Form to: LDHA (Daisy Poole) 302 Dunnottar Place Lafayette, LA Register ONLINE at: 7