CE0809: Managing the High Caries Risk Patient – Good Plaque and Other Emerging Science

Maxwell H. Anderson, DDS, MS, MEd

Course Description:

This course will review the history and pathobiology of dental caries based on our current knowledge of this disease.

Course Objectives - As a result of attending this course, the participant should be able to:

• Define the pathophysiology of dental caries including what we’re learning about biofilms like dental plaque and how to manage them
• Illustrate how to leverage knowledge of the disease to better
  • assess the individual risk of each patient
  • create treatment plans based on the patient's risk profile
  • modulate the patient’s biofilm for “health plaque”
• Recognize various diagnosis and treatment strategies and describe how they work
• Evaluate new technologies that are being developed for diagnosis and treatment of the disease

Instructor:

MAX ANDERSON received his dental degree from the University of Nebraska, his Master of Science in Restorative Dentistry from the University of Michigan and his Master of Education from George Washington University. He completed a career in the United States Navy and has served on the faculty of the University of Washington and Indiana University. He served as the Vice President and Dental Director of Washington Dental Service (WDS) a Delta Dental Plan, in Seattle, Washington from 1994 through 2004. His primary research and academic interests are in the management of dental diseases through treating these diseases as bacterial infections and in the analysis of insurance treatment data to identify best practices on risk adjusted populations.

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