Dental Hygienist, Educator, Speaker, Author
Professional Dental Seminars, inc.
Fort Worth, Texas, United States
Kathy has been a dental hygienist, educator, speaker, author, consultant, seminar, and study club leader for over 40 years. She speaks frequently about the correct classification, documentation, treatment planning, and CDT procedure code selection for patients with periodontal disease, In addition she holds a license with the ADA for Current Dental Terminology© which allows her to provide the most up-to-date understanding of current procedure codes.
She has articles published in RDH Magazine including “Perio and Insurance: The Periodontal Maintenance Patient and How to Get Perio Maintenance Covered by Insurance” and “The 60-Minute Hygiene Appointment”, a look at the evolution of the hygiene appointment over 40 years. She has also been a contributing author to Dentistry Today as well as the Insurance Solutions Newsletter, a national publication for Dr. Charles Blair and Associates, where she addresses issues related to dental hygiene procedures and proper billing practices.
Kathy currently serves as a Director for the DentalCodeology™ Consortium, reviewing and developing procedure codes relevant to dental hygiene practice which are presented to the Code Maintenance Committee of the American Dental Association each year.
She most recently was a faculty member in the Dental Hygiene Program at Concorde Career College in Aurora, Colorado. Prior to moving to Colorado, she had a long career in education in Washington state where she taught in the Dental Hygiene Programs at Pierce College in Tacoma, WA and Shoreline Community College in Seattle, WA. Through the University of Washington’s Continuing Dental Education Program, she taught local anesthesia and restorative procedures for out-of-state hygienists seeking licensure in Washington state and the Teaching Practicum Series for Eastern Washington University’s Degree Completion program for licensed dental hygienists seeking their Baccalaureate Degree.
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