Call for Education Proposals Guide Overview June 2019-August 2019 The ADHA Annual Conference, being held in New Orleans June 12-14, 2020, is an opportunity for dental hygienists to engage in exceptional formal and informal learning experiences to advance professional development, improve patient care, and learn about the latest trends in dental hygiene. ADHA is seeking education proposals founded in sound adult learning principals and reflecting evidenced-based, cutting-edge thinking, informed by current theory, research, and practice. Intended to deliver the utmost learning experience, preference may be given to proposals that are positioned to deliver a balanced mix of the following: Conte

Our UDHA Legislative Chair, Danyelle Evans, represents our association serving as the Utah State Representative for the Oral Health Progress and Equity Network (OPEN). She recently traveled to Houston, Texas with Utah’s Grassroots Representative, Jessie Mandle of Voices for Utah Children and was also joined by Beth Erhardt, President of Senior Charity Care Foundation where they convened with other representatives and invited guests from the West/Mid-West regions of the country. OPEN, is a national network of individuals and organizations that believe oral health is essential to overall health and wellbeing and is organizing across the country to ensure that fact is widely understood and embr

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ADHA and Premier Dental want to know how you live inspired! We’re excited to partner with Premier Dental to find out how dental hygienists from across the country live inspired! Starting Tuesday, May 21 we’ll begin accepting entries via Facebook, Twitter and Instagram for our contest. Enter on social media or at the Premier Dental Booth #341 booth during ADHA 2019 in any of the following three ways for the chance to win an AeroPro™ Cordless Handpiece– please feel free to participate in all! Write how you live inspired on one of our smile stickies and hang it up on the Live Inspired board to share your story! Post a selfie or video on Facebook, Twitter and/or Instagram with #HowILiveInspired

Thank you Tammy for providing us with an update on what's happening with the Nursing Home Project! We're excited to have dental hygienists in Utah on board with this amazing project, which has helped hygienists practice in new settings, as well as obtain a lot of research on the need for this vulnerable population. The Utah Dental Hygienists’ Association (UDHA) in collaboration with the Senior Charity Care Foundation (SCCF) received a grant from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Civil Money Penalty Fund (CMPF) for Certified Nursing Homes to provide free comprehensive dental care to nursing home residents. This partnership enabled the UDHA and the SCCF mobile dental clinic to bring their