Additional Audience(s): Hygienist, EFDA/Dental Assistant, Front Office
Dentists have a tremendous opportunity to improve community health by adding whole-person wellness to their vital oral health therapy. These new skills and therapies require us to be able to discuss them with patients, parents, colleagues, and other healthcare providers. Critical listening and verbal skills benefit all areas of practice, especially when introducing something as new as this.
Learning Objectives:
Explain to existing patients why a new idea for health is ‘suddenly’ now a part of the practice.
Use key listening skills to help the patient share what’s important to them.
Walk patients through the five reasons to treat a sleep breathing disorder.