Everything you ever wanted to know about Airflow but didn’t want to ask
Faye Donald DH
Everything you ever wanted to know about Airflow but didn’t want to ask
Faye Donald DH
LEARNING
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This webinar focuses entirely on Airflow. It’s Origin, how key design and technology features translate into surgery, it’s role in contemporary practice, the extent to which it can be utilised and how perfecting technique can be a game changer for everyone. At the end of this webinar, listeners will know the truths and myths surrounding the use of Airflow and will have a clear understanding of how to utilise it’s full scope of practice when treating patients in the dental clinic.
At the end of this webinar, listeners will
- know the truths and myths surrounding the use of Airflow
- understand Airflow’s design features and why the technology is aligned with comfort and minimal intervention
- will have a clear understanding of Airflow’s full scope of practice and how to utilise it to suit different dental patients.
- will have a better understanding of technique and the role that correct angulation and positioning play in achieving the best results.
Release date: Wednesday 14th October, 2020, 07:00 PM
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ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Tribune Group designates this activity for 1 continuing education credits.
This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) through joint efforts between Tribune Group GmbH and Dental Tribune International GmbH.
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Faye Donald DH
Faye was born in Yorkshire and has over 20 years of experience in the private dental industry. Graduating in 2001, she has a wealth of experience working in both general as well as perio and implant specialist practices. In 2006, she completed a certificate in counselling skills and behavioral Therapy and now runs a popular mentoring program, which gives hygienists access to free coaching and additional support with an aim to improving their confidence and personal growth and development.
Undergoing training in Switzerland, Faye is a certified Swiss Dental Academy Trainer and speaks nationally and internationally on the role of the AIRFLOW technology in periodontal and implant maintenance. She is a huge advocate of the GBT model and the role it plays in contemporary practice.
Faye was awarded the titles of Best Hygienist (DH&T awards) and Dental Hygienist of The Year (Dential awards) in 2014. In 2017, she was again crowned Best hygienist (UK) at The Oral Health awards (FMC).
Tribune Group GmbH is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.
ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. This continuing education activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the standards of the ADA Continuing Education Recognition Program (ADA CERP) through joint efforts between Tribune Group GmbH and Dental Tribune International GmbH.
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220 Comments
Thank you!
Thank you…from Canada🍁👌
Thank you, very informative
Thank you Faye, Excellent webinar
thank you so much x
brilliant refresher for me
Thank you!
Thank you so much Faye, just waiting for our delivery, eager to get started.
Will be using it for the first time tomorrow-excited!
Thank you from Miami, Fl
Thanks
Thank you very much for your presentation. Have a good evening.
Love from Italy, this was very interesting!
Thank you so much! It was very interesting
Should we use different codes for GBT instead of prophylactic cleaning codes?
Perhaps you discussed HVE… what is the most popular device GBT practictioners prefer? PureVac? ReLeaf? Isolite? Dryshield? Do you use towels for patients around their necks? We currently use PureVac, a towel around their neck, Optragate. Wondering if there is anything better?
Can we use airflow with plus powder after regeneration surgery? 🙂
If so, how close after the surgery?
Please could you clarify the required suction per minute rate
Thank you so much. Very informative
Thank you so very much from Switzerland
Selling points to me as a customer to sell to patients please, would be a great!
Thank you so much! You are so informative!
Thanks so much
Thank you so much from an italian student. Very clear webinar .
can perioflow be used around implants placed in non keratinised tissue.thanks
am I correct in understanding thatt that the erythritol powder is not recommended in other air polishing devises
Hello from Switserland. cleaning
How often/year is safety to use this powder?
Thank you so much. You really have answered all my questions. ☺️🙏🏻☺️🙏🏻
How much extra cost to the patient? How to convince the patient.
Question from NZ – do you work with powder dialabove 3?
Thanks
would you include the airflow in the price for hyg appt
Thank you for this! I love my EMS Airflow. Use it everyday. Patients love it! I live in Uk. 😊
Do you have to take a GBT course before you can do airflow treatment?
Hello,so we shouldn’t use polish paste anymore if we use airflow?
Fantastic ,great to hear and learn from a dental assistant , some great points .Thankyou love airflow we can’t wait to start again missed it so much.
Thank-you, this has been great. I am a newly qualified hyg/therp, so found this very useful.
Thank-you, from Norfolk, UK 🙂
What about colitis patients with problems with sweeteners?
Thanks Faye from a fellow north east BSDHT member. 👍🏼
Thank you so much! Hoping to have this integrated into my practice!
Thanks you very much. Very useful webinar
thank you from Iraq
Bleeding after treatment. Advise for patients please
Thanks.
Thank you for an informative webinar. Mabuhay from the Philippines!
At the end of the treatment is mandatory to use a flour gel or it’s optional?
Thank you for answering my question 😊
Is it true, that if you use the airflow or scaler the wrong way, you can damage the enamel and cementum?
how to avoid clogging of powder inside the handpiece?
I have airflow 2. Do I have to buy the airflow 3, or it can do the same work?
Hi Faye, other DH’s at my practice use airflow quite a bit, but I was wondering do you need to be trained before using it?
Can we use the Plus powder on patients after their regeneration surgery? If so, how close after the surgery? Thank you 🙂
Thank you for this presentation. As a newly registered clinician who hasn’t used airflow yet, this was very very informative and has made me confident on using the airflow.
We use distilled water for the airflow master unit. Do we add Alpron in the water or should we use it without Alpron? Thank you
What is diference between glycine and erythroil?
Thank you! How do you think, is it possible to remove the cement in the abutment area at the time of fixation with perio flow?
Do you polish after air flow?
yes please to perioflow talk!!
do you use after classic powder plus powder ?
Do the purevac attachment fit all/most dental units?
Hi Faye, I’m from Italy. How to convince the dental practice to buy the EMS airflow?…many still use really old tecniques..
I primarily work under NHS and airlfow is only really advertised as a private stain removal treatment.
what do you charge your patients for the airflow treatment you carry out?
When to use the classic powder?
Good evening from the Czech Republic! Thanks a lot for your useful webinar. I would like to ask if you use up the same amount of Plus powder for removing stains as with Comfort/Classic powder? Thanks for the answer.
What is your fallow time with all the mitigating factors in place?
Why wouldn’t you use period flow on all patients so you wouldn’t have to switch when experiencing 5 mm pockets?
Can airflow be use as part of open surgical peri implantitis treatment prior to bone augmentation
How often do you sterilise and do you just sterilise the tips?
Are they planning to make a thinner perio flow tip. The current tip is bulky and won’t fit most deep pockets (in my experience in a perio practice)
Can you get perio flow to use supra and sub? To avoid getting more nozzles?
Thank you very much from Erika, Nottingham.. Fantastic webinar
Can pts be allergic to the powder and if so is there another powder to use
Please plan a trip to Bern English DH study club
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Faye, thanks again. Nailed it!
love your passion!
USA Really enjoyed your presentations.
Thank you for the webinar! Greetings from Portugal
Hello from Cape town, South Africa!
Airflow is low abrasity, but it’s still abrasive. It is need to polish with paste after polished with airflow a composite and veneer?
Thank you so much, Doctor, for all these advices ! All the best !
Thank you from Ottawa, Canada. Excellent presentation!
Hi from Krasnodar, Russia!
Awake here in NZ love hearing your northern accent 😊 missing home.
Thank you for the fantastic webinar…
Hello and thanks for an excellent presentation! I would like to adress the recommendation on first using Airflow and then EMS. If we have assessed the period tissues correctly from the beginning, why not go directly to EMS Piezon. Thanks once a again. Nikolaos, periodontist from Greece
👋 from Glasgow
Thanks a lot! Hi from Czech Republic. =)
Hello,so we shouldn’t use polish paste anymore if we use airflow?
When do you use Classic Powder?
What about abrasion effect of the powder ?
Well done Fay from South Africa!
Why can we use the subgingival nozzle in the US for up to 5mm – and in Canada up to 9mm ?
Thanks so much Faye! That was a great presentation. Why as a purchaser selling to my patients. key points now, would I purchase please?
many thanks again
can the erythritol powder be used in the handy?
What is the best way to place the optragate?
I am sending greeting from Czech republic as well 😀 And thank you :-)))))
Hallo from George in South Africa!
Watching mid-day from Michigan, USA
does it remove stain from cloths? Like blood and plaquecolouring?
Good Morning from Philippines
Thank you Faye, looking forward to attending the intro course later this month..
Hi Faye very informative thank you – on a typical day in clinic would you be using this on all of your patients
How about the use of te special implant-cleaning nozzle as profided with the airflow?
Thank you
Is airflow Perio and airflow plus the same in terms of indications for use
Thank you so much Faye for a great presentation 👏🏼
That was very informative! Thank u!
is it safe to use at low pressure with erosive lichen planus
Do you use after subgingival scaling perio flow ?
What do you think about face emphysema caused by using the air flow ?
Fantastic Webinar Faye – Well done x
Can we use chx in the watertank instead of water?
Which are the indication for using perioflow?
What do you use for sub calculus
If working alone without nursing support how achievable is effective HVS for the single handed clinician when carrying out airflow?
Is Airfow dangerous for teeth with amelogenesis imperfecta, or any other enamel anomalities?
How much is Air flow
thanks for the webinar
How expensive is the unit?
what power does the compressor need to be ?
What does it cost?
thank you very much for your time
Thank you!
Thank you for great information!
What does it cost?
Would you use this on soft tissue, like the tongue to remove biofilm
Thank you Faye! Awesome information
I agrea
What steps are involved in the sterilization of the Airflow handpiece parts?
Do you use the left and right piezon tips?
Danke sehr gut erklärt
Thanks from PL
well done Faye.
Brilliant webinar!
Is it suitable for patients with asthma? Thanks.
Thank you! !
Thankyou so much ..this is soooo sooo useful 😊
Can you please share what loupes are good enuff and not to0 expensive either 🤓
That says ‘bacterial’, not viral.
Good Evening from France !
What do you think of emphysema caused by air flow ?
If the hand piece reach the soft tissue, does it make any harm?
Can airflow powder erythrytol, when used toward gingival margin/gingival sulcus, cause subcutaneous emphysema?
Can the Air-Flow Plus power be used with a non EMS device?
Is the airflow plus powder available in the uk and where can we order from?
Is it okay to use expired powder???
Even at the right angle Why does a lot of powder come out of the handy at the start after I add more powder when it’s run out ?
While using subgingival, don’t you need to attach a tip?
Have you ever caused a subcutaneous emphysema using airflow? If yes, how can you treat it? Of course avoiding it with the right technique is the first advice
I struggle using optragate. any tips?
Can we use air flow around mini implants ?
Do you find that many self employed DH&DTs purchase their own units and take them around practices with them? Does this concept work? Some employers might not get onboard if they don’t use the unit themselves
has the contraindication for clients with respiratory issues been changed?
How do you manage the water and aerosols during the novel coronavirus pandemic when you do not have an assistant to help with suction?
What about the aerosols generated? How do we protect ourselves from the increased exposure to aerosols.?
Do you often use the classic powder?
In the time of corona, is it safe to use airflow?
Do we have to use rubberdam with airflow and do we chnge the settings for kids?
From what age it’s safe to be used on kids? Thanks
Do you think we can place rubber dam and do airflow?
If u use comfort powder for stains could the comfort powder increase Faster the growing of them?
Is it possible to remove hard subgingival calculus without super sharp hand instruments ?
Hello 🙂 What water to powder setting do you suggest for removal of dark pigmentation with the plus powder?
Do I need to change the percentage of powder to remove stain?
How to disinfect or sterilize the airflow?
Are you saying the airflow can remove calculus?
I am new to the airflow, I am . We have a lot of implant patients with implants placed in non keratinised tissue with pocketing and bone loss is the perio tip safe to use at these sites in case of emphseyma I am a little wary of the perio tip although this what I would really like to use
Why does the basal lamina on the erythritol look like the tissue has been excised?
How often airflow machine should be serviced?
Good evening, is the Plus safe to use on implants?
does use of airflow handy unit achieve biofilm removal ? we were led to believe you had to have the airflow perio for this?
Hello, more or less, how long can last a bottle of air flow? Because as we know The product is expensive, thanks
Thanks. Greetings from Lima Peru
can the plus powder be used in patients with asthma ?
If someone is asmatic. No problem to use the airflow.
Is Air flow plus powder useble by asthma?
Is asthma not a contraindication of use?
Is it available, all over the world?
Hello from turkey
Good evening from Hungary!
Is it efficient for all types of periodontists?
What is the best airflow for direct (compiosite) and indirect (veneer) restoration?
Can the powder that you are talking about be ordered from Hu-friedy?
Is there any contraindications using the airflow on pregnant women?
Are we allow to use GBT at the moment ?Thanks
Do you think polishing with polishing paste intervention is higher then with Air-flow?
From witch age can start use Air-flow?
Greetings from Bulawayo Zimbabwe
Hallo !Aus Österreich
There seems to be a lot of bleeding when I use the airflow, is this normal?
Is the powder not harmful when patient swallow it? What happens to powder when swallowed?
Good evening from Bern Switzerland
Hello from me in Peshawar (Pakistan).
Prof. Dr. Fazal Ghani
can the Ems handy airflow be used for biofilm removal or only for stain removal
what are your thoughts on using airflow without the help of a dental nurse.
I have attended a lecture where this was suggested .
I have the airflow handy 3.0 and l dont find it effective is there any reason
I would love advice on using it with lichen planus patients
Is it necessary to polish with paste after Airflow with CaCO3 (Kavo Prophy Pearls)?
What the difference between airabrasion and airflow. Can it damage the gums or teeth?
Is it safe to use in UK covid Alert level 4 with top level PPE? I have ‘heard’ mixed reports & would love to clear this up for my own peace of mind. Thank You
Can you use airflow during an SRP appointment ( Sanative therapy
)
Good evening from Norway! 🙂
buenas tardes, desde Cordoba, Argentina
Hi from Holland.
Hi from Ioannina, Greece!
good early morning (5am) from melbourne
Good Evening from Stuttgart, Germany
Hello from
Houston,Texas USA
Hi! From Mexico.
Good afternoon from Houston, USA 🇺🇸
Would you recommend using the air flow on peri implantitis?
Can you make personal office visits for training?
I have little confidence in using the nozzle. It doesn’t seem to fit appropriately in deep pockets.
Is removing biofilm prior to ultrasonics so critical? Time is a big factor now with shortened DH therapy appointments.
How many times you can use comfort powder in the enamel without scratch it?
Hi there from Austin Texas USA!
Can you give some details on use of airflow around implants.
I recently brought the airflow, I tried using it with said air and water pressure, but I was not happy, I was unable to remove any superficial stain. So what could be the reason
What is the difference between the pink and plus (purple)?
Many are reluctant to use classic powder on root surfaces with heavy stain. What are experts saying?
What are the effects on gengiva about comfort powder?
Is this the best option for implant maintenance?
Excelente Dia..!! Saludos desde la Cdmx (Mexico ,City)
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