Diane Millar RDH MA
- One-on-One Tutoring Online
- Advanced Instrumentation and Ergonomics Lecture
- Hands-on Workshops for Conferences and Dental Offices
- Continuing Education Units Offered in CA
Attention Dental Hygiene Students and
Dental Hygienists
Now Available: One-On-One Hands-On clinical instruction via Zoom on Advanced Scaling Techniques for students and Registered Dental Hygienists.
If you're a student seeking one-on-one tutoring for your regional clinical boards, I can help you sharpen your skills!
If you are a practicing hygienist, and you're experiencing pain in your hand or wrist, I can work with you on advancing your skills to prevent injury and enjoy career longevity.
Imagine a one-on-one dental hygiene instrumentation tutoring session! Dental hygiene students and dental hygienists in private practice now have the opportunity to improve instrumentation skills via zoom with instruments, and a typodont connected to a portable simulation unit.
Students, would you like to improve your instrumentation skills while you are in dental hygiene school and for clinical boards? Whether you are taking the WREB, CRDTS or another clinical examination for school or for your dental hygiene license to practice, I can work with you and give you suggestions on how to improve your skills! This will also be beneficial to prevent musculoskeletal injuries that can occur from repetitive motions.
One-On-One Dental Hygiene Tutoring Sessions
A one-hour tutoring session with me will be focused on your individual needs and challenges when practicing dental hygiene. I have helped many dental hygienists and students improve their skills from across the country.
I utilize a typodont on a simulation unit to discuss and demonstrate scaling techniques using a webcam on Zoom. My goal is to take you to a new level to master your scaling skills!
Dental hygienists often experience pain due to improper techniques, so if you are experiencing pain while practicing, I can make recommendations to enhance your career longevity. The tutoring sessions are tailored to your specific needs. Below are just some of the topics that can be reviewed.
Online Tutoring Topics
- Advanced and reinforced fulcrums both extraoral and intraoral
- Ideal Instrument grasp for effective scaling
- Exploring techniques for calculus detection
- Ultrasonic techniques to effectively remove calculus
- Adaptation of instruments
- Angulation of instruments
- Inserting to the base of the pocket for effective calculus removal
- Stroke control using Gracey curettes and universal scalers
- Wrist motion and wrist protection
- Arm pulling strokes versus finger pulling strokes
- Learn how to protect your hands and wrists while scaling
- Accessing lateral pressure for calculus removal
- Learn how to prevent your instrument from slipping while scaling
- Learn how to remove burnished calculus effectively
- Learn about the use of files, and mini Gracey curettes
- Same arch, opposite arch and cross arch scaling techniques
- Sharpening techniques for improved scaling outcomes
- Ergonomic positioning around the patient chair for ideal scaling
- Injury prevention for career longevity
- Time management strategies
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Tutoring Inquiry
About Diane
Diane Millar has been a dental hygienist for over 40 years, and she received a Master's Degree in Education from Pepperdine University in 2009. She was an educator at the University of Southern California, Cerritos College, and is currently an instructor at West Coast University where she has taught for over 18 years. She also received the Sigmi Phi Alpha award in 2021 for her accomplishments in the dental hygiene profession.
Diane is the published author of the book entitled; "Reinforced Periodontal Instrumentation and Ergonomics for the Dental Care Provider." She provides lectures and hands-on workshops on advanced instrumentation and ergonomics internationally to empower dental professionals and students to have extraordinary scaling and ergonomic skills to enhance career longevity.
Sharpen Your Skills Virtually to Improve Your Competency:
Elevate Your Career To a New Level
This live lecture will provide participants with a virtual hands-on scaling experience to learn advanced and reinforced periodontal instrumentation scaling skills and techniques. Ideal biomechanical ergonomic postures will be demonstrated and then applied through audience participation. Knowing the importance of incorporating larger muscle groups and ideal fulcrum rests for improved lateral pressure, precision and injury prevention will be emphasized.
2 - 3 Hour Live Lecture
Learning Objectives - Upon completion the participant will be able to:
- Learning Objective 1
Demonstrate advanced conventional and reinforced periodontal scaling techniques with ideal intraoral and extraoral fulcrums to enhance precision, and injury prevention - Learning Objective 2
Understand how to protect both hands, wrists, arms, and shoulders while scaling to prevent repetitive motion injuries which can lead to career ending disabilities - Learning Objective 3
Implement improved postural ergonomics around the patient chair for musculoskeletal stability, comfort, and career longevity - Learning Objective 4
Demonstrate and feel the difference between an incorrect grasp and an ergonomically safe grasp while scaling using intraoral and extraoral fulcrums
Advanced Instrumentation and Ergonomics Workshop:
Precision, Power and Protection!
This course will provide a hands-on scaling experience designed to enhance scaling efficacy and proper ergonomics to prevent work related pain, musculoskeletal injuries, and disability. Through video clips and hands-on participation coupled with the use of instruments with wider handles, attendees will learn advanced reinforced scaling techniques in every quadrant on a typodont model attached to a portable simulation unit. Attendees will receive personalized instruction while scaling during the workshop to improve upon instrumentation skills, and postural ergonomics for career enhancement and musculoskeletal protection from injury.
3-4 Hour Live Hands-On Workshop - Accommodates up to 24 attendees
Learning Objectives - Upon completion the participant will be able to:
- Learning Objective 1
Demonstrate an ideal grasp, advanced convention and reinforced scaling techniques, ideal intraoral and extraoral fulcrum rests and optimal postural ergonomics while working in every quadrant. - Learning Objective 2
Understand how to protect both hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, neck and back while scaling to prevent injuries that can lead to career ending disability. - Learning Objective 3
Demonstrate ideal postures around the patient chair for every quadrant while scaling in a seated posture or while standing to prevent prolonged static postures which can lead to career-ending injuries.
Audiences are Saying!
- “So informative! Excited about new techniques! Can’t wait to try to go to work and try something new! Thank you!”
- “Professor Millar gave us so much usable information. She had the entire room engaged and the 2.5 hours flew by! I took 12.5 units of CE classes and this was by far the best class of the year!”
- “She was great! The best CE I have ever taken. Thanks so much for all the helpful hints. I will be buying her book”
- “Loved this class. Would like more like this. The speaker was very knowledgeable and really seemed to enjoy speaking.SHE WAS GREAT!”
- “The speaker was the best Hygiene Speaker I’ve seen and I’ve been coming to CDA since 2000… Definitely bring her back”
Speaking Engagements
- JDIQ Meeting, Montreal, Canada
- 9th World Dental Conference 2023, Yokohama, Japan
- ODA- Ontario Dental Association Annual Spring Session Toronto, CA
- CDA – California Dental Association Scientific Session, Anaheim, CA
- CDA – California Dental Association Scientific Session, San Francisco, CA
- ADA – American Dental Association/ World Dental Federation, San Francisco, CA
- Rocky Mountain Dental Convention, Denver CO
- Utah Dental Association, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Hinman Dental Meeting, Atlanta, GA
- Chicago Dental Society Midwinter Meeting, Chicago, IL
- Pacific Northwest Dental Conference, Bellevue, WA
- Texas Dental Association, San Antonio, TX
- Pacific Dental Conference – Vancouver, CA
- Bisco Canada and RdhU Dental Hygiene Conference, Vancouver, CA
- Bisco Canada, Dental Hygiene Conference, Toronto, CA
- Thompson Okanagan Dental Society Conference, Kelowna, CA
- British Columbia Dental Hygiene Association, Vancouver, CA
- American Dental Hygiene Association Annual Meeting, Nashville, TN
- Western Regional Dental Conference, Phoenix, AZ
- RDH Under One Roof, Las Vegas, NV
- Nation’s Capital Mid-Atlantic Dental Meeting, WA, DC
- Western Society of Periodontology, San Diego, CA
- Star of the North Dental Conference, St. Paul, MN
- Metro Denver Dental Hygiene Society Meeting, Denver, CO
- Sentinel Periodontics Annual Meeting, Longview, WA
- Virginia Commonwealth University Dental Conference, Richmond, VA
- Indiana University, South Bend, Indiana
- Ventura County Dental Hygiene Association
In-Office Workshops for Dental Hygienists
Private practice hands-on workshops are offered for dental hygienists to learn advanced reinforced instrumentation techniques in their own operatory.
DENTAL CONFERENCE SEMINARS
Author and Instructor Diane Millar provides seminars internationally for dental conferences, dental hygiene societies, periodontal study clubs and dental hygiene programs.
CE COURSES
Diane is a Continuing Education Provider and is licensed by the California Dental Board. She offers seminars and hands-on workshops in dental offices for dental hygienists and provides up to 4 CE units.
My book on periodontal instrumentation and ergonomics demonstrates reinforced protective scaling strategies to help protect against injury. I am currently lecturing internationally and also facilitate hands-on dental hygiene workshops which help hygienists prevent injury and improve ergonomics while meeting current CE requirements.
Diane’s book “Reinforced Periodontal Instrumentation and Ergonomics for the Dental Care Provider is an invaluable guide for dental hygeinists. The book is extremely practical and designed to be used as an on-site reference in teaching dental hygiene tecniques that prevent injury and protect careers.
CDA TESTIMONIAL
“So informative! Excited about new techniques! Can’t wait to go to work and try something new! Thank you!”