Lesley Dental Hygienist

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Lesley is a Registered Dental Hygienist, a licensed health professional. I graduated 20+ years ago from an accredited college with a Diploma in Dental Hygiene from Niagara College, Ontario Canada. Recently I was the winner of the 2017 New Zealand Dental Hygienist of the Year Award. I was also the recipient of the Hu Friedy Golden Scaler Award (1998) for the highest clinical marks. I have been working in a general dentist practice in Auckland New Zealand for the past 17 years, treating dental clients of all ages from 3 to 90+. The first four years of my profession I worked full-time with a general dentist working with two other dental hygienists in the practice and I also worked part-time at a Periodontal Practice in St. Catharines, Ontario alongside five other dental hygienists and two Periodontists. It is at the Perio office where I honed my clinical skills and scaling and root planing expertise. This set me up nicely for moving overseas to Auckland New Zealand where I have worked the entire time that I have been in NZ at a downtown practice in Auckland CBD. I work full-time, five days a week at Queen Street Dental working alongside two fantastic dental hygienists and two incredible dentists who share the same philosophy of care and are prevention focused as myself. We all share the same ethical approach to patient-care and we practice state-of the art dentistry and prevention methods. I received my training and certificate to administer Local Anaesthetic at AUT (Auckland) in 2008. I am extremely passionate about caring for my dental clients and helping them achieve healthy teeth and gums for life. I love to educate and inform people about how to clean their teeth properly with the most useful dental tools and aids appropriate for each individual. Clients love my upbeat, enthusiastic, helpful and positive nature and they especially love their healthy and clean mouths after I have scaled and polished their teeth. I love the outdoors and have tramped/hiked all over New Zealand's back-country trails, as well as having hiked all throughout the Canadian Rockies, the French Pyrenees and in the Swiss Alps doing the 2-week 200km Haute Route from Chamonix France to Zermatt Switzerland. I have also enjoyed cycle-touring all over the South Island of New Zealand several times. I am also a competitive marathon runner (having competed in 45 marathons and winning four of them and often placing in the top 3). I won my first 100km Ultramarathon in the stunning trails of Taupo New Zealand in October 2017. I enjoy ultra marathon running and have competed in 9 Ironman distance triathlons. I am also passionate about boxing fitness and Iyengar yoga. Living a healthy life-style, eating primarily a vegan-plant based diet and caring for my own teeth and overall health has helped me inspire and motivate many of my dental clients to make healthy choices for themselves. A DENTAL HYGIENIST is a licensed dental professional who is registered with a dental association or regulatory body within their country of practice. They are a primary healthcare professional who works independent of, or alongside dentists and other dental professionals in a team to provide full oral health care. They have the training and education that focus and specialise in the prevention and treatment of oral disease. They can choose to work in a range of dental settings from independent practice, private practice, specialists practices to public sector; and can also work in residential aged care facilities. Dental hygienists have a specific scope of clinical procedures they provide to their patients. They assess a patient's condition in order to offer patient-specific preventative and educational services to promote and maintain good oral health. The use of therapeutic methods assists their patients in controlling oral disease, while providing tailored treatment plans that emphasize the importance of behavioral changes. In most jurisdictions, hygienists work for a dentist or dental specialist, and some are licensed to administer local anesthesia and perform dental radiography.[4] The major role of a dental hygienist is to perform periodontal therapy which includes things such periodontal charting, periodontal debridement (scaling and root planing), prophylaxis (cleaning) for patients with periodontal disease. In addition dental hygienists are able to perform examinations, make diagnosis, take intraoral radiographs, dental sealants, administer fluoride, and provide patient specific oral hygiene instruction. They are also able to work at an orthodontic clinic and can perform many tasks there. Such as selecting and sizing of orthodontic bands for dental braces, the removal of orthodontic appliances and are able to make dental impressions for the construction of study casts and mouthguards. Dental hygienists work together with other dental professionals, with a higher number working at general practices with dentists, Dental therapists and oral health therapists. A smaller number work at specialist practices alongside orthodontists and periodontists. They help with the contribution of an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide optimum oral health care to their patients. Dental hygienists also aim to work interprofessionally to provide holistic oral health care in the best interest of their patient. Dental hygienists also offer expertise in their field and can provide a dental hygiene diagnosis, which is an integral component of the comprehensive dental diagnosis. Other areas that relate to dentistry that dental hygienists can be involved in are: • Research: They can carry out clinical studies and trials alongside specialists in teaching institutions. • Professional education: They are able to provide education by teaching and training dental hygiene students and dental assistants. They can also choose to present research at a variety of different events and seminars within their industry. • Community health: They provide assistance and group talks in community dental clinics, residential care, hospitals and nursing homes. For example: helping clients that suffer from medical and mental disorders. • Military dentistry: They are able to provide dental care to service members and their dependents or to civilians during humanitarian disasters. • Marketing and sales: They can promote dental products and services through dental companies as a dental company representative.