Tilting the Balance in Favor of Health Before Creating the Perfect Smile

Presented by: Jim Hyland, DDS, BSc & Anne Bosy, MSc

Original Publication Date: July 15, 2015

Course Description:

Breaking the OSL predictably by treating gum disease quickly and predictably in two weeks*.

Tilting the Balance in Favor of Health before we create the perfect smile.

Creating the perfect smile is the most common dental theme promoted on websites and by dental practices worldwide. However, if the foundation tissues are unhealthy, they cannot be maintained.

A study published in 2014 with data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey estimated that over 47% of the sample population representing 64.7 million adults aged 30 years and older had mild, moderate, or severe periodontitis, and 64% of adults 65 years or older had either moderate or severe periodontitis. When data includes gingivitis, 75% of the North American population has some form of periodontal disease. Since there is only a 25% success rate in keeping patients’ smiles healthy, an outsider reading these statistics would conclude there is a crisis in how we approach treating periodontal disease and the Oral Systemic Link. What are the alternatives? Change is needed!

In this presentation, Oravital will address how to break the link between oral and systemic disease by treating the cause, not the symptoms. The Oravital system identifies and controls periodontal infections and their systemic effects. Severe infections that result from oral and systemic bacteria, such as P gingivalis and spirochetes, are explored. Periodontal disease is life-threatening and needs to be presented this way to all patients. Prevention is critical, but how do we engage patients in:

Motivating them to want to perform effective biofilm disruption techniques, especially since flossing is now not recommended: “except for healthy mouths and then when no other method will clean interproximal without trauma.” What are the practical alternatives they will and should use? ( J.Clin Periodontol. 2015)

Eliminating bacteria that cause this infection as we do for any other condition we treat.

To help our patients achieve oral health and reduce systemic risk factors, both the dentist and the patient must accept that “only a little bleeding” in the oral cavity parallels the seriousness of this symptom when it occurs elsewhere in the body, and only zero bleeding is acceptable. We will discuss how to use non-systemic, more effective antibiotic rinses and a less expensive, multiple-site, subgingival sampled oral microbiology testing to control periodontal disease predictably within two weeks. Let’s engage our patients in effective biofilm disruption techniques they will commit to using regularly. Once we master this skill of achieving zero or close to zero bleeding in our patients, we will genuinely tilt the balance in favor of a healthy body.

Learning Objectives:

• Utilize objective diagnostic techniques that generate patient compliance, including using the Papillary Bleeding Index.
• Identify different elements of microbiological testing as a component of diagnosis.
• Identify effective treatments of periodontal disease and oral breath odor with antibiotic rinses that include an 87% reduction in bleeding and up to 86% change in periodontal pockets.
• Recognize ways of motivating the patient to use effective biofilm disruption techniques.
• Identify how to balance the oral biofilm for a healthy mouth and healthy body * 90% of the time.

Speaker Bios:

Dr. Jim Hyland, BSC, DDS: President of Oravital Inc., graduated from the U of T in 1976 and has always been among the first to implement the latest techniques, research, and philosophies in oral care. Dr. Hyland's experience, in addition to private practice, includes teaching at the U of T Faculty of Dentistry, Seneca College, and George Brown College, as well as the dental staff member of the North York Hospital. He regularly lectures and writes on various topics related to diagnosing and treating periodontal disease as an oral infection, interceptive preventive care, and decreasing oral-systemic risk and breath odor. In 2014, he launched www.GumGuardians.com to educate the public about the connection between the health of their gums and physical well-being and to provide the latest information about how to prevent and treat gum disease and breath odor.

Anne Bosy, MSc, MEd, RRDH, is the Senior Vice President of Scientific Affairs at Oravital Inc., is an educator, published researcher, and speaker who has presented on the topic of breath odor at the ODA, ADA, and Yankee Dental Congress, as well as at conferences in Europe and Japan. She is the originator of the Oravital System and, at present, the Senior Vice President at Oravital Inc., where she is responsible for antibiotic rinse development and the microbiology laboratory. Before this position, Anne was a professor at George Brown College.