Alumni Weekend 2008
Dental Hygiene Reunion
Friday, May 16 | Saturday, May 17
Dental Hygiene Reunion | Visitor Information
Alumni Weekend Brochure (PDF, 2MB)
Online Registration | Who's Coming
New Location in 2008!
Sheraton University City Hotel
36th and Chestnut Streets
The alumni cost for the lunch and the course is $39. To register, please send your name, class year, address, phone number, and check made payable to the University of Pennsylvania Dental Hygiene Alumni Association:
Sharon Chester, R.D.H.
56 Joseph Byrne Drive
Brick, NJ 08724-7757
Questions? Please contact Sharon Chester, DH'85, at 732-206-1657 or via email at sjchester@msn.com.
Friday, May 16
12:30 p.m.
Lunch and Continuing Education Course
"Enamel Therapy: The Next Generation of Care" (3 CEU) by Judy Zack Bendit (DH’81)
Course sponsored by Premier Dental
A changing paradigm in caries management has widened our decisions in dental preventive care. With terms such as "minimally invasive" and "remineralization technologies," we are faced with a new decision model in diagnosing and treating the caries disease process. This program will review the historic trends in caries control and introduce the exciting new trends in desensitization, topical fluorides, prophy pastes and varnish therapies.
Course Objectives:
• Discuss trends in the management of caries in all patient profiles and age groups.
• Identify the diagnostic changes utilized in evaluating the caries process.
• Discuss and implement the use of the CAMBRA and other risk assessment tools.
• Identify the practice settings and patient clientele that benefit from the remineralization therapies.
• Discuss the latest diagnostic technology in screening and tracking caries patterns.
• List the key steps in the medical model in identifying and treating caries.
• Compare and discuss the current delivery systems which contain technologies claiming enamel restoration and remineralization.
• Evaluate and challenge the concept of "selective polishing" with consideration to remineralization benefits in prophy pastes.
• Formulate an effective treatment plan in enamel therapy.
Accredited by the Academy of General Dentistry and the Pennsylvania Academy of Dental Hygiene Studies.
Reunion Alumni
Betty Brussels Shamus (DH'63), Dental Hygiene Alumni Class Reunion Chair, has sent invitational letters to all alumni in classes ending in "3" and "8." If you are unable to attend, please return the questionnaire so we can update our records. For more information, reunion alumni should contact their respective representative listed below.
Class of 1953
Helen Lucas Price
808-735-5533
helen@aloha.com
All other classes:
Betty Brussel Shamas
798 Cattail Court NE
St. Petersburg, FL 33703
727-528-1970
eshamas@verizon.net
(please put Penn in subject line)
