The Dental Hygienist course is specifically designed to increase the practical knowledge and skills of the Hygienist taking them to a higher level of performance. This course is designed to improve the integration of the Dental Hygienist in the restorative and aesthetic dental team.
The course will expose Hygienists to a broad range of best and emerging practices to increase the contribution and value they can deliver to a practice. For example, the course will increase practical skills and knowledge specifically in the area of periodontal treatment. Enhancing these skills will enable Hygienists to take on and retain more periodontal work, providing an opportunity to increase income and the value retained from this work within your practice.
The course will teach the latest about smile design and aesthetic dentistry so that Hygienists can explain and sell the concepts to those patients who would benefit from such work.
Once certified as Tipton Trained, Hygienists will be able to play an increased role in Restorative treatments by giving local anaesthetics, placing rubber dam and retraction cords, where appropriate and, by taking impressions. Additionally, once certified, Hygienists will be able to undertake all the whitening procedures for a patient under the prescription of the Dentist.
The course will also cover some work which is currently performed by Technician’s and will enable the practice to undertake certain technical work in-house, thereby reducing costs.
A Tipton Trained Hygienist will be able to will learn how to increase their own income through their ability to undertake more procedures and will increase the income to the practice by taking on some of the jobs delegated by the dentist, whilst allowing the Dentist to be perform other procedures concurrently in other surgeries.
As the person with potentially the greatest patient contact, the Dental Hygienist has an outstanding opportunity to sell work for the rest of the practice. This course will increase the Hygienist’s ability and confidence to take on this wider role.
Topics Covered
- Cosmetic Imaging
- Tooth Whitening
- In office power bleaching
- Vital night guard tray bleaching
- Topical Anaesthetic placement
- Shade Taking
- Pouring, casting and mounting study casts
- Constructing prep guides and bleaching trays
- Facebow registration
- Use placement of retraction cord
- Alginate and rubber base Impression taking
- Use of the Florida Probe
- Indices to screen/monitor disease
- New types of fissure sealants
- Oral Anaesthetics (inflation/block). Use of the Wand
- Management of Implants
- Full mouth detoxification
- Use of Perio Chips
- Liason with periodontist/specialist
- Rubber Dam replacement
- Suture removal
- Selling marketing techniques
- Aesthetic Dentistry
