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Dental Assistant’s Week

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SDAA/SDHA Spring Professional Development Day

April 1, 2017—Conexus Arts Centre, 200 Lakeshore Drive, Regina SK

8:00am—9am: Breakfast & Registration

9am—10:15am: SDAA AGM

10:30am—12pm: Proper Care & Feeding of You! Seven top Tips for Busy People

12:30pm—2:30pm Be Sugar Smart: Helping Canadians Make Healthy Choices

2:45pm—4pm: Team Building

LINK TO BROCHURE

ALL registration can be completed online. Members are asked to login to the member portal and register. Please make your pay-ment through an online payment or by cheque.

PD Credits—2 for the AGM

PD Day—5 credits (based on sign in / sign out)

Please register prior to March 28, 2017

Fee: $75.00—Free parking & meals included

SDHA Conference (SDAA Breakfast & additional sessions on Saturday)

REGISTER NOW for the SDHA/SDAA Conference - April 28 & 29, 2017 in Saskatoon

Full conference fee before March 30th is $190 and after March 30th is $225. One day only rate $130.00.

Conference information, schedule and online registration are available online at: http://www.sdha.ca/index.php/continuing-competency-program/sdha-conference/

The Travelodge Saskatoon has a block of rooms set aside at a discounted rate of $139.00 for the SDHA Conference until March 28th. Please call the hotel directly at 306-242-8881. Register ASAP - Maximum capacity is 200 delegates.

SDAA / SDHA PD Seminar—Save the date!

September 29 & 30, 2017 at The Willows Golf and Country Club, Saskatoon

Full seminar fee $120 for both days or $25 for Friday night only and $100 for Saturday only. More Information as well as registration on the SDAA Website opening soon! All oral health professionals are welcome!

Dental Day for Regina and Saskatoon

This year Saskatchewan will offer two dental days! Registered Dental Assistant volunteers are needed. If you can help, we thank you very much! You are part of the solution! Two PD credits will be awarded for this volunteer initiative.

SASKATOON Dental Day 2017 will take place on Saturday, April 8, 2017 (time TBA) at the College of Dentistry, University of Sas-

katchewan. The YXE Team would appreciate additional volunteers. If you can help, please email dentalday.yxe@usask.ca . Dental

Clinics are invited to refer patients. Please use the form provided. Link to Referral Form.

REGINA Dental Day 2017 is set to take place on Saturday, May 6 from 8-2 at Saskatchewan Polytechnic Regina Campus. It is a day

in which dental professionals provide free dental care for those who experience financial barriers. Dental Day has been running

since 2012 and has been continuously growing each year. We are actively looking for Dental Assistants to help out on this day by

assisting Dentists and Dental Therapists in providing treatment to the clients. If you have any questions or are interested in volun-

teering, please contact Alanah Mueller at mueller6179@saskpolytech.ca or Cassie Seguin at seguin8650@saskpolytech.ca We look

forward to hearing from you.

Better Oral Health in Long Term Care: Best Practice Standards for Saskatchewan

We are pleased to announce that our report "Saskatchewan Seniors’ Oral Health and Long Term Care Strategy – Better Oral Health in Long Term Care: Best Practice Standards for Saskatchewan", training modules, posters, pamphlets, etc are up on the SOHC Web-site now.

To access the material please go to http://www.saskohc.ca/resources.php. Click on Best Practices… Click on Resources… If you wish to volunteer in a Long Term Care Home, you will wish to make use of the available materials.

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Professional Development and Non Practice Status

Members holding non-practice status are NOT required to accumulate PD credits until your 4th year.

Saskatchewan Oral Health Professions Conference

The annual Saskatchewan Oral Health Professions Conference has been cancelled. The CDSS has decided to offer an independent conference and have partnered with the College of Dentistry to create a more clinically focused and dentist specific event. All pro-fessions remain welcome to attend. Alternatively, the SDHA will be partnering with the SDAA on several events throughout the year to offer additional excellent PD opportunities for our members. Stay tuned!

SDHA / SDAA PD Seminar—Save the date!

October 14, 2017 in Regina

Conference information, fees, schedule and online registration opening soon on the SDHA website! All oral health professionals are welcome!

SDAA Annual General Meeting

SDAA Annual General Meeting will take place in conjunction with the April 1, 2017 PD Event at Conexus Arts Centre in Regina, SK. There are currently no open positions on Council. If you are not attending the professional development day, please feel free to arrive at 9am and attend the AGM only. 2 professional development credits will be awarded.

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Saskatchewan Dental Assistants’ Association

P.O. Box 294 Kenaston SK S0G 2N0

T : 306.252.2769 | F : 306.252.2089

W : www.sdaa.sk.ca E : sdaa@sasktel.net

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Refugees: How We Helped! (Pasqua South Oral Health Clinic)

After sending countless predeterminations and countless appeal letters and still receiving the same "denial of dental ser-vices" from the Interim Federal Health Program, our office was starting to get discouraged. How are we supposed to help these Syrian refugees who have been welcomed into our city, yet were being treated as second class citizens? There were so many teeth needing to be filled or pulled but the government was approving the VERY bare minimum, if anything at all. On Janu-ary 28, 2017 our office held a "Refugee Dental Day" for our Syrian Refugee patients. We completed approximately $15,000 worth of dental treatment, provided them lunch and in return, received many very happy, healthy looking smiles. It was an eye opening day, to think that something we do every day, drill, fill, pull, clean and something a lot of us take for granted meant so much to these new Canadians. That is how we helped! Submitted by Karly Edwards, RDA

NOTE: IF YOUR OFFICE HAS A STORY TO TELL, SDAA IS HAPPY TO SHARE IT. JUST EMAIL US!

Regulatory Update

As of mid-February we have 90 RDA’s who have lapsed their licence. Some are on maternity leave (congratulations), some have retired (congratulations), a few have left the province (best wishes), and others are missing in action (we hope they’re okay!). To fulfill our public responsibility, the names of all Saskatchewan Registered Dental Assistants along with their practice status are listed on the SDAA website in the ‘About Us’ section.

The practice permits and receipts have been mailed to members having completed their renewal and if you have not received yours please contact the SDAA office. Receipts, additional copies of your practice permit and professional development reports can be printed from your member portal. If you need your 2016 receipt for income tax, log in and print it!

SDAA Name Tags

As a sign of your professionalism and courtesy to your patients we recommend all profession-als employed in an oral health facility wear a name tag. SDAA name tags can now be ordered online through your member portal for $20 each. Simply login to your member portal, click on the ‘Products’ tab under ‘Member Menu’ and follow the prompts to the end and generate an invoice. Use your personal online banking site to pay for your new name tag.

Password Reset

Many of you have called the office because you have forgotten your password to log in to the member portal. While we always welcome your call, there is an easier way. Just below the member login there is an important message... ‘forgot your password, click here’ prompt. Please use your email address to recover the password (your username does not work). If it does not come to your email address within a few minutes it could mean that we have an incorrect email address for you. In that case you will need to call the SDAA office and we will be pleased to update your email address.

Tooth Fairy Kits

SDAA recently purchased 50 tooth fairy kits for all dental assistants, dental therapists, and dental hygienists employed in public health…… It was great! Registered Dental Assistants in Saskatchewan are doing great things! We have a few additional kits in the SDAA office and they will be gifted to the RDA’s who continually offer oral health presentations to public groups.