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MotivateMotivation - What to use?
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Learn how to motivate your patients.
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Vanessa Borken
Vanessa is a dedicated dental hygienist and enthusiastic GBT trainer. She works in a private Slow Dentistry dental practice in Cologne. There, her main task is patient care around oral hygiene and Guided Biofilm Therapy. Her focus is specifically on the correlation between oral health and systemic health. For Vanessa, a healthy oral flora is part of a healthy system and she is happy to advise her patients on this to the full extent. In her opinion, Guided Biofilm Therapy is the best dental cleaning to maintain a healthy oral flora. Her statement is that good periodontology means giving the dental hygienists enough time. She is also very much into this in the trainings. Prevention is better than cure! Vanessa is also a yoga teacher and is currently studying Ayurvedic medicine.
How can I motivate adult patients to change their home care routine as they are usually not eager to change their habits?
It is important to communicate openly with the patient. Oral health can only be maintained if patient and clinician are working in a team. Patient pictures can be a great motivational tool to show patients where they need to brush more and to keep track of the development over several recall appointments. I recommend you to watch the microlearning episode on “Patient pictures as motivational tool”.