Inflammation 911: The Mouth-Body-Mind Connection

Want to learn about “permanent lifestyle change” and slash your patients’ disease risk? There is an avalanche of evidence demonstrating the connection between your patients’ mouths with modern lifestyle habits: lack of sleep (zaps their discipline), shift work (after 4 p.m., blood sugar is elevated), poorly-managed stress (shows up in every cell of their body), overeating (high fat and processed food boost inflammation) and sedentary living (did you know sitting is the new smoking?). And it’s bi-directional; the oral environment has far-reaching effects on the rest of the body.

Patients appreciate the dental health professional who sees the bigger picture and truly understands the relationship between the body, mind and mouth. Set yourself apart from the pack and develop a value-added practice. Stop the deadly “rock ’n roll” cascade with specific dental and lifestyle solutions guaranteed to change your patient’s health destiny. This fact-filled and inspirational program is a call to arms against “party all night” inflammation – let’s douse the flames.

Course Objectives:
1. Recognize the destructive “inflammatory cascade” in your patients.
2. Make the connection between diabetes, insulin resistance and inflammation.
3. Learn how to spot the sleep deprived patient.
4. Spot how stress shows up in your patient’s mouth.
5. Understand how chronic dehydration adversely influences your patient’s biochemistry.
6. Identify seven key foods and lifestyle habits that contribute to inflammation – eat this, not that.
7. Learn which exercises best fight inflammation in your body.
8. Put into practice some simple solutions to modify your patient’s behavior.
9. Implement a new dimension to your treatment planning.
10. Discover how visceral fat behaves like an active organ releasing inflammatory cytokines causing havoc throughout the entire body and mouth.