Joe Blaes, DDS
Preventive Care from 3M ESPE – Establishing a formal risk assessment program can be beneficial for your practice and patients. Achieving or maintaining a healthy smile requires a comprehensive program of professional treatment and patient compliance with home care therapy. Establishing a formal prevention program can help improve your standard of care. Your patients will appreciate a comprehensive systematic approach to establishing a formal risk assessment program. The most successful practices often say that they saw better results when they adjusted their approach to preventive care. These offices tell patients that caries, gingivitis, and periodontitis are diseases that can be prevented and treated. They discuss the causes that can contribute to these diseases to improve patient understanding. These offices also remind patients with existing restorations that proper oral hygiene is important for avoiding secondary decay. Successful offices advise patients that the success of treatment greatly depends on their involvement and compliance with treatment recommendations. They provide home care medications in the office to reinforce that these therapies are necessary to prevent disease. 3M ESPE has created a program that is simple to implement called the Preventive Measures Oral Health Risk Assessment and Management Program. A comprehensive packet includes a number of tools to help integrate the program into your practice. Included are a comprehensive brochure to assist in identifying caries and periodontal disease risk factors and treatment options, a quick reference poster, a reception room easel to inform patients about your commitment to the best oral care possible, and a tear-off pad of 25 Oral Health Risk Assessment Tests to help individual patient risk factors. Taking a more proactive approach to prevention can help you to raise the standard of care in your practice. For additional information, call the 3M ESPE Customer Care Center at (800) 634-2249, or visit the 3M ESPE Web site at www.3MESPE.com/PreventiveCare.
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