Do you give much thought to the importance of saliva in prevention of oral disease and even overall comfort for your patients? Learn how to decrease your patient's disease risk and improve their prognosis for restorative care by collecting and assessing salivary data. Find joy in providing care to patients who present with impaired salivary function.  

Help your patients control their caries! Join me for a discussion of YOUR role in helping your patients modify their behavior to reduce their caries risk. We will also investigate opportunities to mitigate the effects of hyposalivation and assess remineralization techniques to arrest caries lesions.

Where do all these cocci come from and how do we stop them?! As we discuss modern caries etiology, we will investigate the role of commensal organisms in bacterial decay and the implementation of disease management in practice as well as its effect on prolonging the life of restorations in all of our patients.