Dementia and Dentures: How to Help our Patients Living with Neurodegeneration
Friday, April 24
2 - 5 PM
3 CDE Credits – DDS, DH, DA, AUX
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Dentures – partial, complete, implant-supported removable – are more likely to be lost within the first three months of moving into a long-term care community. What do we do when we get that call? What if our patient’s mom lost her denture – and she was never our patient? Cloning dentures is an inexpensive side-book procedure, and if the patient is already on record, they don’t even need to be there.
Course Objectives:
1. Discover a new way to build your practice – even if you have never made a denture (and don’t want to).
2. Ascertain the conveniences of the “digital pathways” of copying dentures.
3. Uncover how to become the hero with your local long-term care community when a denture gets broken/lost.
PRESENTER:
Joy Poskozim, DDS, FSCD, CDP
Joy Poskozim has been the dental director for several nursing care facilities, educating staff, providing care to nursing home residents and making house calls since 2008. Poskozim has owned Joyful Dental Care, an integrative health independent practice, since 2006. In 2017, she earned her Dentistry in Long-Term Care Certificate from the University of the Pacific Dental School, her fellowship with the Special Care Dental Association Geriatric Council in 2018 and is certified as a Dementia Practitioner as of 2021. Poskozim is a 1990 graduate of Marquette University and a 1994 graduate of New York University College of Dentistry. She was awarded Resident of the Year after completing a GPR from Woodhull Medical Center in 2000.
Sponsored by: Aquoral
Conflict of Interest: Aquoral
