HOW Oral Hygiene is Self-Care: Teaching Patients What Matters Most

Presenters: Christa Keddie, RDH, CPHDH, BSDH & LeaAnne Haney, RDH, CPHDH, CDHC

Course Description: Often oral Hygiene instruction can be the most challenging Part Of our jobs. learn the techniques and products that may improve your patient's success and make your job less stressful.

Agenda: 

5:30 - 6:00 PM  Registration and Refreshments

6:00 - 8:00 PM  Presentation 

2.0 Clinical CEUs

Registration Deadline: Wednesday, November 1, 2023

Learning Objectives: 

Create collaborative and constructive relationships with our patients.

Interpret the data gathered from our patient assessment to create our individualized oral hygiene instruction plan.

Analyze what three things need to be evaluated before recommending a product.

Identify products for certain oral conditions.

Summarize best techniques learned during this course for applying oral hygiene instruction in your chair.

Presenters:

Christa Keddie, RDH, BSDH, CPHDH

Christa graduated from Mount Ida College in Newton, MA with her dental hygiene degree in 2009, then received her Bachelor’s Degree in Dental Hygiene with a concentration in education in May 2015.  In 2018, Christa received her certification in public health dental hygiene in New Hampshire.

Christa worked in a private practice before joining Northeast Delta Dental in 2016 as an Oral Health and Wellness Solutions Specialist. On behalf of Northeast Delta Dental, she creates and engages dental offices with educational trainings on preventive services and the value of a risk assessment.  Christa continues to practice clinical dental hygiene in a New Hampshire public health setting, and lectures to dental hygiene associations and dental hygiene schools on various oral health and prevention topics.

LeaAnne Haney, RDH, CPHDH

LeaAnne graduated from NH Technical Institute in 1980 and has practiced clinical dental hygiene for over 42 years.  She was appointed to the NH Board of Dental Examiners by Governor Steve Merrill in 1993 where she served a 5 year term and was then appointed as the NH Board of Dental Examiners Investigator until April 2018 completing over 200 investigations.

 She has been a member of the Commission on Dental Competency Assessments for 30 years assisting in dental and dental hygiene clinical licensure exams.

LeaAnne has worked for Northeast Delta Dental for the last 6 years as an Oral Health and Wellness Solutions Specialist and recently received her certification in public health dental hygiene.

She is a Board member for the NH Oral Health Coalition and the American Cancer Society, Taskforce for HPV Prevention.

She has given continuing education presentations for dental hygiene associations and dental hygiene colleges in ME, NH and VT and presentations for Patterson and dental office administrators.

Payment Options

Credit cards and checks accepted. Checks must be received in the NHDHA office by Tuesday, October 31st.

Refund Policy

Cancellations received by November 1 will be refunded less a 25% administrative fee.