Learning Objectives: 

• What the health? Support the mouth-body connection, prevent, and treat oral systemic infections.
• Saliva testing first, last, and in between. Apply testing to clinical practice through case review.
• Is it lip service? Identify pathogens, pinpoint treatment, demonstrate success, and repeat.
• It’s like pulling teeth. Recognize the complicated relationship between caries, fungal, viral, bacteria, and their toxins have on health outcomes.
• Chewing the fat. The who, what & why of saliva testing, periodontal, and peri-implantitis failures nobody wants.
• Bite your tongue. How test results will change your treatment before patients change their dentist.
• Long in the tooth. What are you waiting for? Start a new standard of care and test everyone, how to implement saliva testing into your practice.

From the Karen Davis stage at RDH Under One Roof Studios, this general session experience, sponsored by SimplyPERIO™, welcomes contestants Lora Hooper, BSDH, RDH, EFDA, a key speaker, coach and consultant on oral salivary diagnostics for over 15 years, Dr. Gina Pritchard, DNP, RN, CNS, ACNP-BC, one of the nation’s leading specialists in the prevention of heart attack, stroke, type 2 diabetes, & vascular related dementia, and Dr. Dave Vigerust, MS, PhD who has developed several novel molecular diagnostic assays for predicting inflammation and cardiovascular risk in patients with diabetes, infectious disease, and cancer. Join in oral support with audience participation and prizes as contestants battle for the oral health expert title.