Unlike previous dentists, Dr. Luedemann-Lazar didn’t suggest that Camryn would need to be sedated or immobilized. Instead, she suggested weekly visits to help her learn to be cooperative, step by step, with lots of breaks so she wouldn’t be overwhelmed. Bribery helped. If she sat calmly for 10 seconds, her reward was listening to a snippet of a Beyoncé song on her sister’s iPod.
This month, Camryn sat still in the chair, hands crossed on her lap, for no less than 25 minutes through an entire cleaning — her second ever — even as purple-gloved hands hovered near her face, holding a noisy tooth polisher.
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The webinar is sponsored by The Arc for People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities. Our last webinar participants included doctors, a dentist, therapists, students, Arc chapter employees, and state/local health department employees- so a pretty broad audience. The webinar will be live captioned.
If you are a student or know of any students who might be interested in presenting, please let us know. Each presentation is 15 minutes long (3 presenters) with five minutes of questions at the end.
Anyone interested in presenting needs to contact Alicia Dixon-Ibarra (dixona@onid.orst.edu), Kerri Vanderbom (mcmurtrk@onid.orst.edu), or Mara Nery (nerym@onid.orst.edu) with your presentation topic.