This course is part of Amber’s 6-Part CE Series with CE Zoom:

Intro to the Functional RDH®

In this series, you will hear from Amber Auger on multiple topics!
All these courses are clinical and count in all 50 states toward your dental, dental hygiene, and dental assisting licensing renewal.
There are 9 CE credits available for those that attend all 6 courses in this series.

February 15, 2023 – Course #1

The Secrets of Saliva: What Your Patient’s Saliva is Trying to Tell You

1.5 CEs

I consider saliva the “liquid gold” of the body. Saliva’s functions include antibacterial defense, protection, facilitation of taste, digestion, ionic exchange between tooth surfaces, and buffering action, which is imperative to a person’s overall health. In this program, I will focus on biomarkers we can test while working with patients chairside: pH, periodontal pathogens testing, and xerostomia evaluation.

Course Objectives

• Define biomarkers in oral and systemic health and how they impact disease
• Review the composition of saliva in a symbiotic mouth.
• Discover how dental dysbiosis occurs, how to identify it, and how to treat it
• Identify how to implement oral biomarker testing chairside