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Course #109108
Friday 13 June 2008
Citigate Sebel Sydney, SURRY HILLS
9:00 am to 5:00 pm includes full day's catering
Registration from 8:30am
$525 Dentist
$350 Hygienist/Therapist
$195 DA
CPD credit hours: 6
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Overview
The Australian lifestyle and diet put the population at risk of obesity, of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Dentistry also identifies concurrent risks of dental erosion and caries in these lifestyles.
By conservation strategies of prevention, minimal intervention and adhesive dentistry, the profession can restore aesthetics and function of worn and carious dentitions. Yet, if dentistry makes common cause with dieticians and nutritionists to influence contemporary lifestyles and diets of Australians for better health, then we require new strategies that address the prevention of dental erosion and caries.
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Detection of Tooth Wear: An Oral Medicine Perspective
Saliva protection determines the regions of the mouth where attrition, erosion and abrasion occur. The most severe stages of tooth wear are found on surfaces least protected by serous saliva. Hence examination of the patient with tooth wear has an Oral Medicine perspective. |
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Diet and Dental Erosion: The WATCH Strategy
This perspective is mirrored by the lifestyle and diets of patients with excessive wear from erosion. In common cause with dieticians, the WATCH strategy is proposed to address the lifestyles and diets by natural means and by avoidance of risky behaviour |
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Tooth Worn, Tooth Gone
The stages of tooth wear aid treatment planning. By conservation strategies of minimal intervention and of adhesive dentistry, aesthetics and function can be restored when tooth wear has been arrested |
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Comparison of Tooth Wear with Decay: An Oral Pathology Perspective
The surfaces affected by tooth wear are different to the sites infected by caries, although both conditions damage enamel, dentine and the pulp. In dialogue with patients, parents and other health professionals the differences need to be stressed because the causes, diet advice and treatment are different. |
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Dietary Advice on Caries Prevention: The WEIGH Strategy
Caries prevention has to start with diet control. The WEIGH strategy is proposed to address causal risk factors as well as oral hygiene, in a natural strategy acceptable to dieticians and nutritionists alike. |
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MI 5 - Intelligence in Caries Management
Restoration of the sites of carious lesions has moved into minimal intervention and adhesive dentistry to reduce the problems of recurrent caries and mechanical failures in teeth and restorative materials. |
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