Appointments available for Health Screening Program at annual session

Appointments are now available for the ADA Foundation Health Screening Program, which marks its return at this year’s annual session in Honolulu.
This year, in order to provide participants with the best possible experience, the Health Screening Program is available by appointment only to clinical dental professionals who are registered for the Annual Session. Also, due to participant request for earlier appointment times, the HSP will be held from 6 a.m.-1p.m. Oct. 1-3 in the Hibiscus Ballroom 1 at the Ala Moana Hotel, located near the Hawaii Convention Center.

The new and improved version of the program is open to all clinical dental staff and features complimentary medical screenings.

For the first time, this year’s HSP will offer a continuing education course on how to screen for medical conditions in a dental setting. The course, “Screening for Cardiovascular Disease and Diabetes” (courses 7205 and 7215, from 7:30-10 a.m. and 11:30am-2pm, respectively, on Saturday), will be taught by Drs. Michael Glick (editor of The Journal of the American Dental Association) and Barbara Greenberg, interim associate dean for research at the New Jersey Dental School.

During the health screening, all clinical dental staff that participate can receive up to 10 free professional services including blood chemistry and Hepatitis C screens.

Optional screenings such as cholesterol screenings, a thyroid-stimulating hormone test and鈥攏ew this year鈥攁 bone density scan will be available for a nominal cost.

The HSP continues to be a cutting-edge research program and this year is collaborating with Dr. David Wong of the University of California at Los Angeles School of Dentistry. Some results from the HSP may be used in Dr. Wong’s salivary diagnostics research.

To make an appointment for the Health Screening Program or to register to participate in either of the two hands-on CE workshops, please register for the Annual Session and then sign up using the Annual Session Registration area at www.ada.org/goto/session.

The Health Screening Program is underwritten by the ADA Foundation through generous support from corporate sponsors.聽