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Transform Your Hygiene Department into a Wellness Center

Gut Health and Microbiome

 

Presented by: Becky Matthews, RDH & Jacque Russo, DDS, RN

Original Publication Date: August 3, 2017

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Course Description:

Looking for ways to empower your hygiene department?  A way to distinguish your practice through community awareness?  How about a way to improve your patients’ lives?

Dr. Jacque Russo will be interviewing Becky Matthews, RDH, who routinely produces $2,000 in the hygiene department by offering wellness coaching to her patients, and you can, too!  Learn how to incorporate scientifically validated programs to improve your patients’ lives while creating a lucrative profit center in the hygiene department.

Learning Objectives:

  • Identify how to reduce your patient’s risk for chronic disease through nutritional assessment and intervention.
  • Recognize how to add results-driven weight management programs to your hygiene services.
  • Recognize how the diet affects the microbiome and gut health.
  • Identify ways to team the hygiene team the art and science of developing case studies.
  • Identify ways to increase hygiene production to $2,000/day.

Speaker Bios:

Jacqueline Russo’s entire adult life has been dedicated to studying the human frame, preventing and treating disease, and helping people live their best possible lives.

As a co-founder of Wellness Works Group, Inc., Jacque partners with healthcare professionals committed to improving the longevity and quality of life of their friends, family, and patients; she employs a multitude of technologies to aid in the early detection of risk factors for disease and offers solutions that will decrease or eliminate these risk factors before disease ensues. Teaching others to live life in optimal health is her life’s passion. It is not enough to live long, but to live long and live well.

For the past 38 years, Becky Matthews has dedicated her career and further education to optimizing patients' oral health, contributing to the nutritional benefits of overall health and wellness, and creating experiences for clients within a business. She is committed to educating the public and healthcare professionals on health and wellness with the oral cavity. Becky Matthews is an enthusiastic dental wellness, nutrition, and practice management lecturer.