Full Title: A New Age in Geriatric Dentistrywith Melissa Scaggs, DDS
About Dr. Skaggs:
After graduating from University of Texas Health Sciences Center San Antonio Dental School in the year 2000, Dr. Scaggs continued her education by completing a 12 month Advanced Education in General Dentistry residency at Texas A& M (Baylor) College of Dentistry. She then entered private dental practice, purchasing her first office in Carrollton, Texas, in 2003. She diligently took many hours of Continuing Education and by 2008, had been awarded the prestigious Master status in the Academy of General Dentistry. Dr. Scaggs began specifically marketing to Senior patients in 2014 and has focused on treating this special population ever since. She has been married for 24 years and has a 9year old son, named Wilson.
Learning Objectives:
- Learn how the geriatric patient population has evolved and how care givers thinking needs to evolve as well. - Learn why we all need to become geriatric practitioners. - Identify where on the continuum of geriatric care a patient falls. - Learn treatment planning techniques for different levels of geriatric care.
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