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Lesions and Lifestyles – Is it HPV? and… Emerging Diseases

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Friday, September 12, 2025
8:30 – 4:00 pm
7 MCE credits

Speaker: Nancy Dewhirst, BS, RDH

Lesions and Lifestyles: Is it HPV?

Oral Pathology Review and Update for Dental Teams

This is a review of selected types of oral and pharyngeal lesions, considering today’s most important trends, emphasizing infectious and neoplastic pathology related to HPV. Review oral pathology risk assessment, and how to document oral conditions and risk for every patient using effective diagnostic techniques and technology. Calibrate your team and educate patients to avoid disease and identify dangerous lesions early to save lives. Suggest differential diagnosis using case studies.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

  • Identify and assess clinical and reported variations from normal considering HPV pathology and create a differential diagnosis
  • Assess risk for oral cancer using standardized tools.
  • Identify, evaluate and compare oral soft tissue masses, ulcerations & papillary lesions and the possible role of HPV infection.
  • Optional practice of head and neck physical exam on colleagues.
  • Review and practice precise descriptive terms and methods of recording and criteria for referring clinical lesions.
  • Describe and communicate causes, prevention and treatment of HPV-related pathology to colleagues and patients
  • Understand risky behaviors, vaccination prevention, and the progression from infection to cancer

Emerging Diseases:

No Rest for the Wicked

This seminar explores personal health issues such as new and altered diseases of importance to dental professionals including bloodborne diseases, respiratory and contact diseases. Attention is given to resistant pathogens, biofilm diseases and pathogens with pandemic potential. These issues are discussed relative to occupational risk, illness prevention, and post exposure responses. Leave with a plan for managing today’s microbial challenges using Standard and Transmission-based precautions.

COURSE OBJECTIVES:

  • Recognize and assess well-known infectious diseases
  • Be able to identify and explain current trends in infectious diseases
  • Be informed of and prepared for unexpected risks
  • Apply infection control and safety strategies to usual and unusual disease risks

Audience: Hygienists, Dentists, Dental Assistants

COURSE HANDOUTS

  • TBD