Tina Clarke, RDH
Courses Offered
Tina Clarke, RDH is an accomplished speaker available to speak at your event for half-day, full-day and multi-day lectures, custom courses, and hands-on workshops.
Hit Me With Your Best Shot: Comprehensive Review Of Local Anesthesia
Often clinicians shy away from providing local anesthetics to their patient because they aren’t confident in their skills, aren’t getting patients profoundly numb, or haven’t given injections in a long time. This course is designed to empower you to hit your best shot with a review of maxillary and mandibular oral local anesthesia techniques, including a review patient health considerations and appropriate anesthetic dosage. Participants review anesthetic options and techniques (with video) associated with oral anesthesia. Along with an overview of complications and how to manage them.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify different non-injectable anesthetic options and their uses in clinical dental care.
- Select appropriate anesthetic solutions for the patient and clinical procedure.
- Comprehend the basic principles of giving the following injections: infiltration, ASA, MSA, PSA, IO, NP, AMSA, GP, IA, GG, VA, Long Buccal, Incisive.
- Identify and manage minor and major complications associated with local anesthesia
- Understand contraindications as they relate to local anesthesia.
- Calculate proper anesthetic dose considering factors such as age, weight, and health status
5 Shots For Anesthesia Success!
Giving as few injections as possible is not only preferred by the patient, but by the clinician too. Fewer injections mean less anesthetic, and less time devoted to the anesthesia process. Understanding why your injection may fail, helps you avoid multiple injections too. This course guides the learner through five injections (PSA, IO, AMSA, IA, GG) to achieve profound quadrant anesthesia. Participants will review the anatomy of the head and neck as it pertains to anesthesia, have a detailed review of injections with still photos and technique videos, review common causes for anesthesia failure and gain a refresher on the anesthetic dose.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify anatomical structures related to the PSA, IO, AMSA, IA, and GG injections
- Understand delivery technique for the PSA, IO, AMSA, IA, and GG injections
- Identify reasons for anesthesia failure
- Calculate maximum recommended dose for anesthetics.
Local Anesthetic Options For The Oral Health Clinician
Understanding which anesthetic is best for your patient can be challenging especially when there are so many options available. This intermediate level course guides the learner through the science of anesthetics used in dentistry; including non-injectable and injectable, and which option is best for the procedure.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify different non-injectable anesthetic optionsIdentify which injections to select for the clinical procedure
- Employ atraumatic injection techniques
- Select appropriate anesthetic options for the patient and clinical procedure
Technique Basics of Local Anesthesia
Basics of Local Anesthesia guides the learner through the fundamentals of local anesthesia. Participants will walk away with information regarding the types of injections, which anatomical structures they anesthetize, and tips for a successful injection.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the three categories of injections
- Identify which anatomical features are anesthetized by the following injections: Supraperiosteal, PSA, IO, MSA, ASA, GP, AMSA, NP, VA, G-G, IA, INCISIVE
- Employ strategies for a successful injection
Head And Neck Anatomy: Back To The Basics
This course takes the learner back to the basics of oral anatomy. As time moves away from those first few terms of college, we often forget the names, location, and functions of the space we spend so much time in, the head and neck region. In this course, oral health clinicians review anatomical structures of the head and neck region and how they relate to our clinical practice. After completing, the learner will be able to identify crucial anatomical structures, state structure functions, apply concepts to potential pathology, and properly document.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the location of major features of the head and neck including skull, muscles, vasculature, nerves, glands, and lymphatics
- State the function of major features of the head and neck including skull, muscles, vasculature, nerves, glands, and lymphatics
- Apply basic anatomical knowledge to identify potential pathology
- Implement correct terminology for proper documentation
Prevent And Prepare: Medical Emergencies In The Dental Office
Prevention, preparation, and management of emergency situations common in the dental environment is crucial in the dental environment. This course walks the learner through the process to prevent and prepare for medical emergencies which may occur in the dental settings. Students walk away confident in their skills to prevent, prepare, and manage an emergency in the dental office.
Learning Objectives:
- List measures to prepare and prevent a medical emergency
- List the emergency supplies and drugs in the emergency kit and explain how they are used
- Discuss medical emergency protocols
- Recognize and properly manage the following medical emergencies: syncope, postural hypotension, seizures, respiratory distress (hyperventilation, respiratory arrest, asthma, COPD), angina, myocardial infractions, cardiac arrest, stroke, accidental overdose, allergic reactions, anaphylaxis, ketoacidosis, insulin shock, shock
Removing The Roadblocks Of Understanding
The few precious minutes you have with your patient is your opportunity to be their oral health educator, but there is so little time to create the impact of change they need to make. With a few key pieces of information, you can communicate with your patient in a way that empowers them to implement your health care advice. In this course, learners will learn strategies on being an effective chair side educator, utilizing the same strategies for general education. This course is designed for the entire dental team and will transform how you educate your patients.
Learning Objectives:
Learning Objectives:
- Identify roadblocks to patients' understanding of their oral health status
- Employ strategies to aid in patient understanding of oral health concepts.
Since the era of GC Black, dentistry has been using an explorer as its chief diagnostic tool for fissure and smooth surface caries. In the post-World War 2 era, x-rays became another diagnostic mainstay in dental practices. Flash forward to 2023 and what are you using in your office? How sensitive and specific are these diagnostics for our patients? The answer, not very! This course takes you in a deep dive into how and why you should be updating your diagnostic skills, and how both your patients and practice benefit. Unless you like premature failures and dental surprises, this course will disappoint you. Our journey during this course is all about optimizing success and YES, there are so many options available today. It’s truly not if you will make these changes, but when. Come enjoy our day together and understand not just the diagnostics, but the everyday clinical solutions with each case.
Highlights:
Highlights:
- Optimizing 2D imaging with artificial intelligence. We all know we miss stuff, come see your second set of eyes and why patients often believe a computer more than you
- Why all too often explorers and 2D imaging are not the best diagnostics, and yet for other patient groups they are. Do you know which group best benefits?
- How today’s transillumination can change your bitewing protocols and why fluorescence does add more to the story
- Why CBCT imaging is NOT just about implants and why it should be in most practices
- Step by step new patient protocols to patients saying, YES
- Step by step recall patients understanding that things change and getting them to say, YES
- Clinical casework that is everyday dentistry but without the surprises
With more patients entering their 8th and 9th decades of life, our role as health care providers continues to face new challenges in treating this population. As these patients walk into our offices, they present challenges that are often unique and require customized approaches to their care.
Highlights:
- Prevention is for all ages and doesn’t stop here!
- Why this patient population loves our in-office prevention plan
- Customizing your approach for plaque, xerostomia, and so much more
- Reparative dentistry: When, where, and why, and what materials are best to utilize
- Customized periodontal protocols that go beyond brushing and flossing
- Advanced restoratives technique for: post and cores, deep class 2’s, “elevating the margin” technique, perio-splinting, and choosing the right cement
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