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- Individual skill-building for optimal oral health
- Cavity formation, detection and prevention
- Bacterial and inflammatory diseases in your mouth
- Oral cancer causes, detection and prevention
- Nutrition for oral and total body health
- Dental professions exploration
- Forensic dentistry for fun
Self - Care Model
“We’re making teeth-cleaning more fun and more effective.”
 In the learning lab each child works one-on-one with me, your child/teen’s hygienist, as a coach. We support developmentally appropriate skills for each individual. Also, we’ll take the confusion out of the many choices of teeth-cleaning items (brushes, pastes, flossers and pics, fluorides, etc) available today. Our goal at each visit is for each child/teen to take one more step toward optimal dental health for a lifetime.
Health Related Sciences
- Learn about bacterial infection in teeth and gums such as Ginvigitis, Periodontitis, Caries, Smoking Stomatitis, and Angular Cheilitis.
- Discover how the acidity of various foods and beverages, regardless of sugar, effects enamel erosion and promotes cavity formation.
- Witness through science experiments just how sugar plus plaque (bacteria) combines to cause cavities: frequency versus quantity, sticky sugars verses liquid sugars. Read the label and do the math to “see” just how much sugar is in your favorite pop or breakfast cereal.
- Study the internal anatomy of teeth gums and bone: healthy vs. unhealthy structures that require various dental restorations, root canals, orthodontics, extractions.
- Realize small changes in nutrition that make a big difference; changes that promote healthy mouths as well as healthy, strong, lean bodies.
Exploring Dental Careers
- Play with our dental art-materials. A child/teen might take an alginate impression of his/her own mouth and, with plaster, turn it into a replica model or learn how to place a sealant or a composite filling.
- Observe dental procedures of all kinds. Wearing a white lab coat and mask, children and teens are invited to observe the dentist, dental assistant and the dental hygienist in action! Teens can feel free to enjoy an extended stay, observing Dr. Susan,
Jean, and Kelly or their own hygienist – for as long as they like.
- Discover abnormalities and diagnose dental disease using our digital photo library, dental instruments, laser cavity detector and periodontal probe.
- Investigate Forensic Dentistry; use tooth models and x-rays to help you match the physical evidence to a real person—someone on our dental team.
- Learn about the various dental specialty services such as Orthodontics, Endodontics, Periodontics, Prosthodontics, and Oral Surgery.
Our Team:
Our Mission:
Our dental hygiene team is committed to changing how children and parents feel about dental health and dentistry. We respect and nurture each child’s individual spirit. We support a warm, inspiring and fun environment for children at any age in order to stimulate self-confidence, a feeling of safety and an excitement for their overall health. It is our privilege to take the time necessary to partner with each child to discover their own unique potential and to explore dental health in a new way. We specialize in inspiring and empowering children and it shows in everything we do.
Our Goals:
To help each child, by age 18:
- Have as few teeth filled as possible, and
- Develop skills and behaviors that support a lifetime of dental health
Georgette:
By developing each child’s own special interest through a mutual partnership of education and fun, I hope to make a positive impact on each child’s life. I will Plant a seed today and grow a whole garden eventually! How rewarding!
Casey:
I have always loved working with children. Their intense curiosity, will to learn and honesty makes each every child unique and fun to be around. Watching children mold into young adults is amazing to me! It always brings a smile to my face.
Corri:
I love working with kids of all ages and I learn so much from them. The Learning Lab gives each child the opportunity to discover personal values and tools for optimal dental health. It’s fun to watch them participate in hands-on experiments and discover the field of dentistry.
If you are an inspired dental or medical office, school or public health facility and would like a Hands-On Learning Lab TM click here:www.HandsOnLearningLab.com
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