Enter the new era of healthcare - one that demands medical-dental integration and new models of collaborative care. The ‘Non-Physician Primary Care Provider’* model in dentistry, long overdue, is one of the most promising solutions to the perfect storm in healthcare that we now face. We’ll explore primary care services, traditionally delivered by physicians and nurses, that we can provide, including emerging point-of-care technologies using finger stick to accurately screen people for non-communicable diseases, such as CVD, diabetes, and others.
*Non-Physician Primary Care Provider: “…providers of health care other than physicians, who render some primary care services…may include nurse practitioners, physician assistants and some other health care providers.” - American Association of Family Physicians
Learning Objectives
After completing this webinar, participants will be able to:
- Identify factors that are driving medical screening in dentistry.
- Recognize patients who are inflammatory primed and how this impacts disease trajectories.
- Using various methods, including point-of-care technologies, screen patients for undetected, or poorly managed chronic diseases.
