024 Your Dental Top 5 with Amanda Hill

This week on your Dental Top 5 Podcast your host Amanda Hill talks with Tiffany Harrison, RDH about the Top 5 reasons we should be taking blood pressure readings in our office!    Episode Highlights   Standard of Practice  Local Anesthesia  Anxiety Gold Key - Periodontal Disease and the link to Cardiovascular Disease We can save lives Quotes   “There are so many opportunities in the dental office to stop a disease that is taking over”   “With high blood pressure there isn’t any warning signs until you have an event, and then it’s too late”    “If a patient is asking for sedation, changes are they have anxiety”    “Patients who have white coat syndrome are at a higher risk of developing white coat syndrome”    “Our golden key is that Periodontal Disease is linked to Cardiovascular Disease”   “If you save someone's life…that huge... if you save someones tooth… that’s great”    “You are here for your preventative appointment, not your cleaning”    “If it’s just a cleaning you can do it, because I don’t feel comfortable”    “The patient came back, shook my hand, and thanked me for saving his life… he told me he want to the doctor after his appointment, and had 6 stints placed”  Links Tiffany’s Email: [email protected]  The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage: http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/ The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429 Amanda’s email: [email protected] Resources  American Heart Association: Heart.ORG  Clinician Resources  Patient Resources  Dashboard for patients to keep track of their BP  http://www.professional.heart.org/idc/groups/ahamah-public/@wcm/@sop/@smd/documents/downloadable/ucm_497446.pdf ADHA.ORG  Standards for Clinical Dental Hygiene Practice revised in 2016 https://www.adha.org/resources-docs/2016-Revised-Standards-for-Clinical-Dental-Hygiene-Practice.pdf ADA.ORG  http://www.ada.org/~/media/ADA/Advocacy/Files/anesthesia_use_guidelines.pdf?la=en American Society of anesthesiologists  https://www.asahq.org/standards-and-guidelines/asa-physical-status-classification-system National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Disease  https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/kidney-disease/high-blood-pressure Innovative Myo Therapy- Chris Zombek, BSDH, COM  https://www.innovativemyo.com/ Facial Function Orafacial Myofunction – Cheryl Shafer, RDH, BS, COM   http://facialfunction.com/54-2/