Description:
The OCEAN Initiative aims to empower healthcare providers to advocate for oral health, reducing preventable diseases and promoting awareness globally. It encourages collaboration among health professionals, educates the public, and seeks to provide accessible and affordable oral health care. The session at the Greater New York Dental Meeting will focus on a variety of topics related to the core of education and prevention, aiming to enrich and enable healthcare providers to better serve patients and their families.
Helene Bednarsh, BS, RDH, MPH - 9:45 – 10:35
HIV Oral Health and Aging
There are many opportunities for oral healthcare teams to impact the HIV epidemic. Oral health is an often-overlooked part of the healthcare system. Aging and oral health are not often a consideration in the delivery of care. Oral health should be integrated into a health home.
Learn:
- better understand the relationship between oral health, aging, and aging-associated diseases
- appreciate how aging with HIV may affect oral health
- discuss the need for interprofessional collaboration
- discuss ageism
Kenneth Aschheim, DDS - 10:45 – 11:35
AI Forensics: Shaping the Future of Global Practices
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Augmented Intelligence (AuI) are revolutionizing forensic odontology by enhancing human identification, dental age estimation, and dental pattern recognition, essential elements in both forensic investigations and the safeguarding of human rights. In support of the OCEAN Global Humanitarian Initiative’s mission to elevate oral health within the broader scope of global health equity, this session explores how AI-enabled dental technologies can aid vulnerable populations in legal, humanitarian, and disaster response efforts.
Learn:
- AI and AuI applications
- how AI enhances forensic odontology
- to identify technological and ethical concerns in AI-based software
- how AI in forensics advances the OCEAN Initiative mission
Rajesh Gururaghavendra, MDS, MPH, PhD - 11:45 – 12:35
Empowering Dental Professionals in Tobacco Cessation
Tobacco use disorders are one of the leading causes of preventable deaths in the US. Dental health professionals are in a unique position to identify individuals with tobacco use. There is a definite need to emphasize brief tobacco interventions for dental practitioners. It is also imperative to empower dental practitioners to identify strategies for integrating these interventions into daily routine clinical practice. Identifying and addressing potential barriers for tobacco cessation in routine dental practice is crucial in fighting the tobacco menace.
Learn:
- available tobacco and nicotine products, and the prevalence of tobacco use in the United States
- to identify the association between tobacco usage and oral health problems
- to identify strategies for integrating brief tobacco interventions into routine clinical practice, documentation and follow-up protocols for tobacco interventions.
- to identify and address potential barriers to integrating tobacco cessation in routine clinical practice in the United States
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