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Oral Health Management for Patients With Alzheimer’s Disease

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Comprehensive, person-centered care for individuals with this neurodegenerative condition is key to maintaining quality of life.

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

  1. Define Alzheimer’s disease (AD).
  2. Explain the similarities between the immune responses generated by AD and periodontitis.
  3. Identify oral health risk factors associated with AD.
  4. Discuss the role of oral health professionals in treating patients with AD.

This course was issued in February 2022 and expires February 2025. 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

Abrielle Lamphere, RDH, BSDH, is a graduate dental hygiene candidate in the class of 2022 at the University of Michigan (U-M) School of Dentistry in Ann Arbor. In addition, she serves as an adjunct instructor in the dental hygiene program at Lansing Community College in Lansing, Michigan. Lamphere can be reached at [email protected]


Valerie Nieto, RDH, MS, is a clinical lecturer in the Department of Periodontics and Oral Medicine, Division of Dental Hygiene, at the U-M School of Dentistry.


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