Training intended for individuals with advanced experience in the subject.
This course will focus on the unique characteristics of curved left and right ultrasonic instruments and guide clinicians on a path whereby improved access to biofilm can lead to better treatment outcomes.
Via a specialized camera, technique demonstrations are a key element of this session as participants use curved instruments, typodonts and live magnetostrictive ultrasonic units through quick paced activities.
Course Objectives:
- Discuss the rational for curved instruments and use a variety of active tip surface to enhance biofilm access.
- Analyze a variety of visual cues needed to ensure the selection of curved left and rights are maximized in all four quadrants.
- Demonstrate effective curved instrument adaptation in furcations, concavities and the CEJ and use a curved ultrasonic instrument to remove simulated biofilm from an artificial furcation.
RHD - Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario
Dani Botbyl is an educator, author, and researcher and has been a trailblazer for the advancement of ultrasonic technology in dental hygiene practice and education in North America. She is credited with leading the first team of researchers to investigate the topic of ultrasonic instrumentation education in dental hygiene programs with culmination of her knowledge and research producing multiple publications in industry and peer-reviewed journals and textbooks. In 2018, with her co-authors, Dani was awarded the Canadian Journal of Dental Hygiene Research Award for Best Original Research Paper. Dani co-authored the second edition of Ultrasonic Periodontal Debridement: Theory and Technique (2024) and is a contributing author to the sixth edition of Darby and Walsh Dental Hygiene Theory and Practice (2025). Dani has presented hundreds of evidence-based programs to dental hygiene students, faculty and practicing clinicians nationally and internationally, served as the National Clinical Educator with Dentsply Sirona 2000-2023 and held a faculty position at Niagara College of Applied Arts and Technology in Welland, Ontario Canada for over a decade. Dani’s passion for enhancing the practice of dental hygiene create learning experiences that are not to be missed!
