In the lead up to his course, ‘Hands-on Basic Periodontal Instrumentation’ in July, we caught up with Dr Julio Rincon.
For Dr Julio Rincon, dentistry is in the family (his brother is currently a maxillo-facial surgeon in Colombia).
It was during his compulsory social service year in Colombia, that Julio was drawn to the field of Periodontics.
“I was often exposed to severe periodontal cases and realised that not many dentists were willing to treat them, including myself,” he says. “That sparked my interest in the specialty and fortunately I was able to get into the program a few years later.”
Julio will be presenting his course Hands-on Basic Periodontal Instrumentation, on July 25.
“Most general dental routine periodontal debridement are completed in a single session with the use of sonic/piezo electric scaling,” he explains. “From my perspective the use of manual periodontal instrumentation is underestimated. Attendees will identify universal and site-specific periodontal curettes. They will review how to use both universal, site-specific curettes, hoes and advanced instruments. They will be shown how to sharpen periodontal instruments for proper maintenance. We will be providing brief lectures followed by demonstrations from the presenters and then a hands-on tutorial where attendees will be able to complete all practical exercises.
“I will be having Mrs Carol Nevins joining me for this course,” Julio says. “She has ample clinical and teaching experience training dentists and hygienist. We have both organised this hands-on course many times.”
He says any dental clinician with an interest in fine-tuning manual periodontal debridement skills, hygienist, dentist, students and any dentist interested in getting into a postgraduate program should attend this course.
He hopes attendees walk away from the course with a good refresher on how to identify calculus deposits and hold/adjust universal and site-specific instruments against root surfaces up to the base of the periodontal pockets.
Julio, who has a history as a senior lecture at UWA, enjoys being able to share his experience of cases that would not normally be encountered with the students.
“Students in clinic would always remember me being able to retrieve calculus deposits on my review despite the use of manual and sonic instrumentation,” he says. “My initial approach was to search for calculus with an explorer first then with manual instruments and was very keen on getting them to realise that sonic instrumentation was not always as efficient as it may initially appear to be.”
Dr Julio Rincon will present ‘Hands-on Basic Periodontal Instrumentation’ on July 25. To book your seat, visit our website, cpd.adawa.com.au
