Educate, Engage, Empower

Technology has allowed dental implants to be more accessible to patients, which can improve their oral health. As primary oral health care practitioners, clinicians play a pivotal role in maintaining implants. Having fundamental knowledge of implant components, the mechanism and debridement materials are central in achieving comprehensive patient-centred care.

Course summary
This lecture explores the concepts of Guided Biofilm Therapy (GBT) and how to incorporate it with the care module process (assess, diagnose, plan, implement, and evaluate), ADPIE to successfully and comprehensively maintaining implants and overall health.

Learning objectives

• Assessment: Describe Peri-implant disease. What clinical parameters are relevant for assessing implants?
• Diagnosis: Learn the current AAP classification.
• Planning: Learn the treatment plan for healthy and diseased peri-implant.
• Implementation: Describe the various materials used to debride healthy and disease peri-implants. Identify the concepts needed to effectively and safely debride around implants.
• Evaluation: Describe the complications, referral and recall intervals for the healthy and disease peri-implants.

Assess, scale, polish. Assess, scale, polish. Dental hygienists have treated patients in this order for decades and while this approach is sufficient to remove local deposits on teeth, it does not address biofilm. Oral biofilm has been implicated in numerous systemic conditions and dental professionals have a unique opportunity to effectively and efficiently remove biofilm. This promotes a positive impact on oral health and mitigates the oral contribution on the exacerbation of systemic health conditions. GBT (Guided Biofilm Therapy) has revolutionized preventive care. This webinar will describe GBT, implementation and the clinical and practice management outcomes of integrating this into clinical practice.

Course objectives

1. Describe the concept of GBT.
2. Appreciate the benefits of implementing GBT into clinical practice.
3. Understand important strategies when implementing GBT.
4. Anticipate clinical benefits and patient perception of modifying the familiar dental hygiene appointment.