Welcome Back Everyone!
After a short little holiday, we are back into the groove of school once more. This week in class we presented short ten to fifteen minute presentations on topics that we selected before the reading week. We were in groups of three or four and we all presented a different health related topic that as dental hygienists we might have to make modifications to treatment to accomodate. Every group included a hand out sheet that had useful tips to help us study for our up coming test or to help us in general in our clinical setting.
There were a lot of really neat topics that I didnt know much about prior to hearing the presentations and in my opinion all of the groups did a really great job of stressing the important sub-topics like, DHE/OHI considerations, oral manifestations, and different barriers to care. Some of the topics discussed were spina bifida and spinal injuries, cerebral and bells palsy, parkinsons disease and multiple sclerosis.
My group talked about spina bifida and spinal injuries, before doing the research on this topic I really didn’t know much about it. I learned a lot while researching and consequently was able to pass that information along to my peers in the presentation. Specifically one of the interesting things I learned was that people who have spina bifida have an increase risk of developing a latex allergy due to the amount of surgeries they had when they were little. Because of this it was advised to book those clients in the morning so that the latex dust from the gloves was not floating in the air.
The presentations were a great way to start the week with something fun and interesting.
