{"id":676,"date":"2016-10-03T16:42:27","date_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/?p=676"},"modified":"2016-10-03T16:42:40","modified_gmt":"2016-10-03T21:42:40","slug":"continuing-education-preventive-care-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/continuing-education-preventive-care-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Continuing Education: Preventive Care Program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Southern Dental we like to stay up-to-date with the latest technology to provide you, our patient&#8217;s the best dental care possible.<\/p>\n<p>This continuing education course was about preventive care programs.<br \/>\nThe program highlights were:<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 <\/span>Determining how to diagnose a patient\u2019s risk for caries<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 <\/span>Learn clinically acceptable and patient compliant treatment protocols<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 <\/span>Improving a patient\u2019s prognosis by implementation of a few simple tools<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 <\/span>Implementing a preventive program to increase productivity and profitability<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s1\">\u2022 <\/span>Generating improved oral health for the patient<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Here at Southern Dental, we like to attend as a team!<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"677\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/continuing-education-preventive-care-program\/neapolitan\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NEAPOLITAN.png\" data-orig-size=\"800,800\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"NEAPOLITAN\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NEAPOLITAN-300x300.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NEAPOLITAN.png\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-677 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NEAPOLITAN-300x300.png\" alt=\"NEAPOLITAN\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NEAPOLITAN-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NEAPOLITAN-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/southerndental.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/NEAPOLITAN.png 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here at Southern Dental we like to stay up-to-date with the latest technology to provide you, our patient&#8217;s the best dental care possible. 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