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Maximizing Utility of the Dental Hygienist

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Leveraging a dental hygienist’s advanced skill set can improve efficiency and productivity in any dental practice.

EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
After reading this course, the participant should be able to:

  1. Describe some of the expanded functions that can be performed by appropriately trained and certified dental hygienists.
  2. Explain the practice benefits of utilizing dental hygienists to their full potential.
  3. Discuss oversight of expanded-function practice by dental hygienists, and the potential impact on patient satisfaction from this clinical model.

This course was issued in December 2020 and expires December 2023. The authors have no commercial conflicts of interest to disclose. This 2 credit hour self-study activity is electronically mediated.


Belmont Business Media is an ADA CERP-recognized provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the provider or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at ada.org/cerp. Belmont Business Media Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. July 1, 2021 to June 30, 2023. Provider ID 317924
3621 Harbor Blvd., Suite 265, Santa Ana, CA 92704

Leila H. Liberman, RDH, EdD, serves as a clinical dental hygienist and senior staff in the advanced education in general dentistry program at the Central Texas Veterans Health Care System in Temple. She can be reached at leila.liberman@va.gov.


Carl F. Driscoll, DMD, FACP, is a professor at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in Baltimore, where he directed the prosthodontic residency program for 21 years. A diplomate of the American Board of Prosthodontics and a fellow of the American College of Prosthodontists (ACP) and the Academy of Prosthodontics, was recently named the ACP’s Educator of the Year. In addition to his teaching commitments, he is in private practice in Bethesda, Maryland.


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