In the rush to train and practice various techniques, procedures and technologies, we sometimes skip important steps in treatment planning and implementation. While trying to excel in our clinical skills, we now and again, leave out the preventive, educational part of the treatment plan and also the possibilities to maintain and improve by using the natural healing capacity of the body. Treating disease starts with and is based on prevention.
Dentists, periodontists and dental hygienists should be working together for improving our patients’ oral health and general wellbeing. Even though we share the same goals and, sometime, work at the same office, we rarely utilize the incredible potential of true, empowering, and mutually enriching collaborative workflow.
Mutual empowerment, enhanced communication skills and better delivery of the message to our patients’ population will provide greater job satisfaction with optimal results in terms of practice building, increasing patients’ volume and high satisfaction rates from staff and patients.
Each and every patient should be engaged in a comprehensive and well-organized prevention program. Explaining the disease, its etiology, risk factors, and ways for intervention and prevention of all types to patients is our primary role, not filling teeth or placing implants. Preventive measures can truly change our patients’ health and wellbeing.
In this lecture, different levels of prevention will be discussed providing keys for enhancing long term success of dental treatments. We will also focus on tips and tricks for better collaboration between the dentist and/or periodontist and the dental hygienist.
Learning Objectives:
- Understanding the different levels of prevention
- Identifying the evidence behind prevention measures
- Acquiring important keys for long term success of dental
treatments
- Discussing practical ways for prevention of dental diseases
- Discussing practical ways for collaboration and empowerment
for staff and patients.
Prof. Liran Levin is a professor of periodontology at the Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, University of Alberta, Canada. He is also a visiting professor at the Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA.
Prof. Liran Levin was the Head of Research at the School of Dentistry, Rambam Health Care Campus, and Faculty of Medicine - Technion IIT Haifa, Israel.
Prof. Liran Levin received his DMD degree with distinction at Tel Aviv University and completed his Post Graduate Periodontology Program at the Department of Periodontology, Rambam Health Care Campus. He also received his Periodontology Specialist Certificate from the European Federation of Periodontology as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Dentists of Canada in Periodontology.
Prof. Liran Levin has published more than 300 articles and book chapters in the international professional literature and is involved in research mainly in periodontology, dental implants and dental trauma. His papers received more than 10,000 scientific citations. He has been lecturing extensively both nationally and
internationally in the fields of dental implants and periodontal diseases.
Prof. Levin serves as the Editor-in Chief of Dental Traumatology, an Associate Editor for the International Dental Journal, Scientific Associate Editor for the Quintessence International and as an Editorial Board Member and a manuscript reviewer for some of the leading international professional Journals in the fields of periodontology, dental implants, dental trauma and general dentistry.
Prof. Levin has served as The Chairman of the Ethics in Dental Research Committee of the International Association for Dental Research (IADR). He is currently the President of the International Association for Dental Traumatology (IADT) and was chairing the 2020 IADT dental trauma guidelines committee.