HANDS-ON Advanced Scaling Workshop: Elevate Your Career to a New Level! – Session 1
Presented by Ms. Diane Millar

Important Note: Due to the focus of the exercises in this workshop, attendance is limited to only practicing dental hygienists.

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.

Course participants will receive a copy of the book Reinforced Periodontal Instrumentation and Ergonomics for the Dental Care Provider.

Objectives

• Demonstrate an ideal grasp, advanced instrumentation scaling techniques, ideal fulcrum rests and optimal postural ergonomics while working to enhance scaling precision, prevention and protection
• How to protect their hands, wrists, arms, shoulders, neck and back while scaling to prevent injuries that can lead to career ending disability
• Demonstrate ideal postural strategies 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

Ms. Diane Millar has been a dental hygienist for over 40 years. She received a Master’s in Education from Pepperdine University in 2009 and has been an educator at the University of Southern California, Cerritos College, and currently, for over 14 years, an instructor at West Coast University. She also received the Sigma Phi Alpha award in 2021 for her accomplishments in the dental hygiene profession. Ms. Millar 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.

Continental breakfast provided.

Date: Friday, November 14, 2025

Time: 8:00am – 11:00am

Rate:
$225 MDDS Member Staff
$255 Non-MDDS Member Staff

CE Credits: 3

Format: Hands-on

Speaker Conflict of Interest Disclosure: Consultant for LM-Dental and Zirc Dental Products

Cancellation Deadline: October 31, 2025

Cancellation Policy
Cancellations will be accepted and are entitled to a refund provided they are received at MDDS by the cancellation deadline. Refunds will not be given for cancellations after the cancellation deadline.

MWDI Parking Information
For your convenience, we have free parking in two retail garages within the Beauvallon building (east-facing side). Both garages are accessed from Lincoln Street between 9th and 10th Avenues. Parking in these garages is available on a first-come, first-served basis. **If you are attending a large course/event at the MWDI, we recommend arriving early in case the garages fill and alternative parking must be secured. Be aware – the garages come up quickly after you cross 9th Avenue and both have left lane entrances. All numbered spaces within both retail parking garages (without “Reserved” signs) are available on a first-come, first-served basis. Do not park in any spaces with a sign “KCNC.” Do not park in the residential parking. Residential garages are at the back of the retail garages. The north and south garages are not connected. Both have open parking available. See link for more information.