Continuing Education

 

Peninsula Dental Hygienists' Association
San Francisco Dental Hygiene Society

When: FEBRUARY 4, 2012 4 CORE CE Units
Where: Dave Chetcuti Room 450 Poplar Ave, Millbrae, CA, 94030 (Next to the Millbrae Library)
7:30 am to 8:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00 am to 12:00 pm course presentation
Tuition: $70 with ADHA membership, $100 non-members/ DDS/ DMD, $70 RDA, $10
Students

What is Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy?
Presented by: Joy L. Moeller, MFT, RDH, COM

This course will provide you with important and fascinating information on the subject of Myofunctional therapy. It is a therapy program designed to re-pattern swallowing, chewing and breathing through the use of exercises and behavior modification. We are trained to assist the patient in eliminating noxious habits such as thumb sucking, nail biting, mouth breathing and tongue thrusting. This therapy will aid in proper growth and development and is now being widely accepted as one modality in the treatment of TMD, chronic headaches, malocclusion, digestive disorders from air swallowing, posture problems, and drooling. Myofunctional therapy is now believed by some doctors to be a major help with sleep apnea problems. There is also an esthetic component to the treatment because by changing the function of the facial muscles, a natural face lift occurs.

To reserve your space please contact Michael Long at SFdentalhygienesociety@yahoo.com
RSVP BY JANUARY 28, 2012

 

 

State Continuing Education Requirements

The minimum requirement for each renewal period is 25 hours of continuing education, including: * Basic Life Support. Licensees renewing for the first time are exempt from this requirement.
* 2 hours of California Infection Control
* 2 hours of California Dental Practice Act

Note: Infection Control and California Dental Practice Act may be taken online at any of the registered continuing education web sites (below).

CE requirements changed as of April 8, 2010

• For specific info about courses required and accepted see Title 16, Division 10, Chapter 1, Article 4, #1016
• For general information see #1017
• Both are at http://www.dbc.ca.gov/lawsregs/regulations/ch1_article4.shtml

Category I and Category II are no more, but there are topics that can be taken without limit, some topics that are limited to 20% of the units, and some that are not accepted at all. Only 50% of units can be “correspondence” (see 1017.h)

Registered Dental Hygienist in Alternate Practice
35 CE's for relicensure.
17 CE's can be home-study.
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