"Delivering best care to your patients begins with being passionate about your knowledge and skills. Strive to be the best version of you possible. You are worth it and your patients will reap the benefits. Instrument with EASE to implement precision in instrumentation rather than less efficient one-size fits all approach."
I love and depend on them all
Trisha O’Hehir, Niklaus Lang, Lars Laurell, Francesco D’Aiuto, Maurizio Tonetti
EVALUATE
Explore the site to define the instrumentation need and location.
ACCESS
Align the instrument shank and position the finger rest.
SET
Using tactile sense, set the initial millimetres of the cutting edge to adapt to the target.
EXECUTE
Make 4-5 instrument strokes, rolling fingers slightly to maintain cutting edge position, then evaluate and repeat.
Jeanie achieved her dental hygiene qualification at the University of Alberta, Canada. Following work in clinical practice and teaching, she moved to the Department of Periodontology, University of Bern, Switzerland, beginning her research activities.
After an MSc at the University of Oxford in Evidence Based Healthcare, she completed a PhD in Clinical Dentistry investigating obesity and periodontitis at UCL and more recently, an LLM in Medical Law and Ethics at University of Edinburgh. For many years Jeanie was involved in patient care, post-graduate teaching and clinical research at UCL Eastman Dental Institute Unit of Periodontology where she was Associate Professor and Director of the MSc Dental Hygiene Programme.
Her most recent roles include Honorary Senior Lecturer at University of Glasgow Dental School, as well as private practice clinician.
Her interest areas are non-surgical periodontal and peri-implant therapy, lifestyle factors and health behaviour change strategies, obesity/multimorbidity and clinical research design, conduct and regulation.
