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Winter Camp Amelia Island, March 1-4, 2012

DA & DH Accreditation Workshop – Thursday, March 1 (8am-5pm)
Allied Dental Educator’s Teaching Methodology Workshop – Friday, March 2 (8am-5pm)
Periodontal Instrumentation Hands-on Workshop – Saturday, March 3 (8am-5pm)
Complete Ethics Course – Sunday, March 4 (8am-Noon)
Complete Nutrition Course Sunday, March 4 (8am-Noon)

If paying full price for 4 full days of camp:  $200 discount off total cost.

If paying full price for 3 full days of camp:  $100 discount off total cost.

For every 4 paying faculty members from one school, a 5th faculty member can attend ANY ONE course FREE.

For every school purchasing in 2012, a minimum of 20 DVDs "Precision in Periodontal Instrumentation 2nd Edition“ 4 faculty members each attend ONE course FREE

For every 10 Sharpening Horse Kits purchased prior to this camp, 1 faculty member may attend ONE of the following courses FREE:
Allied Dental Educator's Teaching Methodology
How to Teach Periodontal Instrumentation

These offers apply only for Winter Camp Amelia Island 2012

To Register:  Click here—   Winter Camp Amelia Island Registration Form-- March 1 - 4, 2012

If you are registering for any course at the March 1-4, 2012 Amelia Island Camp or if your school has purchased TalEval, there are 2 sessions held at the camp that you may attend free of charge:

Thursday, March 1, 1-5PM Question & Answer Session on TalEval Computerized Grading. This is a non-structured training session to meet the needs of those who are using TalEval. Laptops are recommended. (no ceu's are awarded from this training session) Content covered is dependent on the needs of the attendees.

Friday, March 2, 3-5PM "Student Evaluation Course" (2 ceu's) This two hour course is a component of the all day "Allied Dental Educator's Teaching Methodology Workshop". Methods of evaluating students are discussed and the computerized grading system TalEval is presented by America's Software CEO, Connie Harper. A wine & cheese party will be provided for all camp attendees at the end of this session. 

Camp attendees and TalEval users may contact Cindy at Cindy@DHmethEd.com to sign up for either or both of these sessions.

 

 

 

 

 

Featured in the new edition of the textbook: Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation and Advanced Root Instrumentation  by Jill S. Nield-Gehrig who says this:

         The Sharpening Horse    “is an easy to teach and learn technique that allows students to obtain truly sharp instrument cutting edges!” Jill S. Nield-Gehrig

Schools who adopt The Sharpening Horse Kit  for student Preclinic instrument kits will receive  1 Sharpening Horse Kit  FREE  for their program clinic for every bulk order of 15 Sharpening Horse Kits. Bulk order price for 15 or more Sharpening Horse Kits is $58  per kit with one fine stone or $64.95 for kits with 2 stones: 1 fine (brown) and 1 medium/coarse stone.  cindy@dhmethed.com

Click here for an EXCERPT of the video:

Click here to buy: The Sharpening Horse Kit

 

DVD Promotional - limited time offer! Schools who adopt this new DVD as a requirement for all students in a class (bulk orders of 15 DVD's) will receive 1 FREE DVD for every 15 DVDs purchased in bulk order. Bulk order price for 15 or more DVD's is $79.95 per DVD. Retail price is $127.45. Contact us to place this special order cindy@dhmethed.com

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Click on link below to buy the DVD:

 

CLICK HERE to buy: 2nd Ed. of Precision in Periodontal Instrumentation DVD

Lenders Library for faculty members who wish to view the DVD

 

This video contains 2 hours and 37 minutes of demonstrations set up in separate chapters so that you can select exactly the one you want to view. Both dental assisting and dental hygiene clinicians can select chapters for their specific needs.   This new DVD will provide students and seasoned clinicians with the latest techniques in:

· Patient-Operator Positioning

· Grasp

· Fulcrum

· Probing Techniques

· Exploring Techniques

· Basic Periodontal Instrumentation

· Effortless Calculus Removal

· Ultrasonic Instrumentation

· Advanced Root Instrumentation

· Instrumentation Critiques

· Coronal Polishing

· Instrument Sharpening

· Instrument Transfer for Assisting the Dentist

· All demonstrations presented both left handed and right handed clinicians

 

 

"Become a master at imparting clinical skills!"

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If you want to shine at teaching periodontal instrumentation to preclinical and clinical dental hygiene students, Cindy Biron Leiseca is the person who can show you the way! You will leave her workshop fully prepared to guide your students to excellence in instrumentation.” Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation provides a map for teaching adult learners this complex psychomotor skill. Cindy's expertise is unsurpassed in using the Fundamentals book correctly and in teaching educators how to instruct dental hygiene students so that they can achieve an exceptional degree of proficiency in periodontal instrumentation”.

Jill S. Nield-Gehrig,

Author of "Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation & Advanced Root Instrumentation”                                 Asheville, North Carolina     

 

 

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Visit "The Point" website to learn about Jill S. Nield-Gehrig's wonderful textbooks:

http://thepointeedition.lww.com/pt/re/thepoint/home.htm

Refresher Course in Periodontal Instrumentation for Dental Hygienists

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About Cindy Biron Leiseca, President of DH Methods of Education, Inc.

Cindy Biron Leiseca was Professor & Chair of the Tallahassee Community College Dental Health Programs from 1993 - 2009. In addition to her administrative duties as chairperson, she has taught clinical dental hygiene, dental hygiene theory, medical emergencies and allied health pharmacology.  She has taught continuing education courses throughout the United States and Europe for private practitioners and dental educators.  Mrs. Leiseca has over twenty five years of sound, hands on experience in private practice, emergency medicine and dental professions education.  She received an A.S. Degree in Dental Hygiene from New Hampshire Technical Institute, a B.A. degree in Medical Technology and Human Biology from Notre Dame College in NH,  a certification as an Emergency Medical Technician from the University of Texas Health Science Center, and an M.A. in Adult Higher Education from the University of Texas at San Antonio.  She has taught at several community colleges in the nation and at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio.  She is now an adjunct faculty member at Tallahassee Community College. Mrs. Leiseca is a contributing author to the textbooks, “Fundamentals of Periodontal Instrumentation”, by Jill S. Nield-Gehrig,  “Clinical Practice of the Dental Hygienist" by Esther Wilkins, and is co-author of “Dental Office Medical Emergencies” with Meiller, Wynn, and Crossley.  Mrs. Leiseca has served as a columnist and consulting editor for RDH Magazine since 1992.

 

She has produced three instructional DVD's "Precision in Periodontal Instrumentation", "Precision in Periodontal Instrumentation 2nd edition", and "A Focus on Fulcrums".  

 

More recently Mrs. Leiseca has become well known for her computerized grading system for dental assisting and dental hygiene, "TalEval". She has also had great success with her "Summer, Fall & Winter Camps" on teaching methodology and periodontal instrumentation offered at Tallahassee CC, Nova Southeastern U., Salt Lake CC, Harrisburg Area CC, Miami Lakes, Orlando, The University of Tennessee at Memphis, Community College of Southern Nevada (Winter Camp - Las Vegas 2007), Summer Camp 2007 Mesa Community College, AZ. Winter Camps 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 Jacksonville, FL, and Summer Camp 2008, 2009, 2010 Boston and Fall Camp Las Vegas 2010.

 

 

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Faculty from 200 schools from 47 of the United States and 7 countries have attended camps and/or had in-services in their colleges.