On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH starts a new conversation around Periodontitis as a Manifestation of Systemic Disease. These patients go beyond your diabetic patients, your cancer patients or your patients with cardiovascular disease. Tune in over the next … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “Periodontitis as a Manifestation of Systemic Disease”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Grade C”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH discusses the current AAP current grading parameters and how we identify Grade C for a patient. Quotes: “Anytime that a patient is diagnosed with active periodontitis, we are going to grade the … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Grade C”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Grade B”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH discusses the current AAP current grading parameters and how we identify Grade B for a patient. Quotes: “We should start by placing all patients into grade B, and if there are modifiers that move … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Grade B”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Grade A”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH discusses the current AAP current grading parameters and how we identify Grade A for a patient. Quotes: “Some clinicians do get in the habit of grading all patients. That is not necessarily a … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Grade A”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Current Grading Parameters”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH discusses some of the parameters that we use currently, when we're looking at grading guidelines. Quotes: “We all know that if new patient shows up in the practice without their previous charting or … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Current Grading Parameters”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Introduction to Grading”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH discusses the AAP grades of periodontitis. Quotes: “ Grading allows us the opportunity to take a look at what we understand with regards to various types of recognized risk factors and how those … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Introduction to Grading”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Stage IV Periodontitis”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH wrap up the breakdown of the AAP 2017 Classification System highlighting state 4. Quotes: “These are patients in which there is complex management required in order to stabilize the patient's existence of this … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Stage IV Periodontitis”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Stage III Periodontitis”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition, Katrina Sanders, RDH continues the breakdown of the AAP 2017 Classification System Stage three. Quotes: “Now, for dental hygienists that are typically working blindly and by blindly I mean, we're using feel more … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Stage III Periodontitis”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Stage I Periodontitis”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition Katrina Sanders, RDH dives into AAP staging and grading, opening the conversation by covering stage one periodontitis and how we classify patients that are standing on that border land between gingivitis and … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Stage I Periodontitis”
Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Introduction to Staging”
On this week’s episode of Fast Facts - Perio Edition Katrina Sanders, RDH gives us an overview of the AAP staging guidelines that we will give into over the next several weeks! Quotes: “Periodontitis is characterized by microbially associated host mediated inflammation … [Read more...] about Fast Facts: Perio Edition “AAP 2017 Classification System – Introduction to Staging”
