Anyone who has ever lived through a toothache and/or painful gums or has had a family member with similar oral health complaints understands that the level of dental care received can significantly impact one's oral-systemic and oral-mental health outcomes. Conversely, mental and systemic health issues can have a significant impact on one's oral health as well. Significantly, oral health is intertwined and/or bidirectional with systemic and mental health. The oral-systemic and oral-mental interconnectedness is often overlooked within the Quadruple Aim for oral value-based care by healthcare and non-healthcare professionals. The bidirectionality of chronic diseases, specifically the diseases of caries and periodontal disease, must be considered in our quest for favorable overall health outcomes. Hitherto, the dental community has or will continue to provide the patient with comprehensive oral rehabilitative dentistry within a healthy periodontium. The patient may return home with verbal and written oral hygiene and home care maintenance instructions and a supply of dental products to sustain him/her for several weeks. On return visits, the relapse of periodontal health, recurrent caries, and new carious lesions often appear around the natural teeth and surrogates. If we believe the psychomotor skills (techno drill 'n' fill) of the dental operator are appropriate, what are the other potential etiologies for the relapse of these illnesses? These issues direct our quest: creating a team of healthcare and non-healthcare professionals to address the dentition and periodontal soft and hard tissues' destructive progression to look beyond microbes to often overlooked external factors. This team seeks to develop an interprofessional collaborative clinical initiative and practice model to advance among health care and non-healthcare professionals to learn: "Why won't our patients brush their teeth?" and explore resolutions.
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (OICPD). The OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the OICPD is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The OICPD maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.
Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change
