From Nutrition to Numbers: Using Biomarkers to Elevate Preventive Dental Care

With Amanda L. Hale RDH, BSDH, HIAOMT, NBC-HWC

Course Description:

As dentistry continues to evolve toward a more preventive and whole-body model of care, dental professionals are uniquely positioned to influence patient health beyond the oral cavity. Nutrition, oxidative stress, and inflammation play a significant role in periodontal disease progression, wound healing, immune response, and overall oral-systemic health connections. Emerging wellness technologies, such as at-home nutritional biomarker devices, offer clinicians a practical tool to support this shift while strengthening patient engagement and accountability.

This presentation explores how dental professionals can leverage non-invasive nutritional assessment technology to improve patient outcomes by supporting the body’s natural ability to heal when given the appropriate circumstances. By measuring markers associated with antioxidant status, clinicians gain objective, repeatable data that can complement clinical findings and guide personalized nutrition and lifestyle conversations. Rather than replacing traditional care, this approach enhances it—bridging the gap between chairside education and daily patient behavior.

Equally important, these devices empower patients to actively participate in their own health journey. The ability to track changes at home fosters awareness, motivation, and adherence, transforming abstract nutritional advice into measurable, actionable insights. For clinicians, this creates an opportunity to shift from a purely reactive model to one centered on prevention, coaching, and long-term wellness support.

Attendees will gain insight into how integrating nutritional biomarker technology can elevate patient communication, reinforce preventive strategies, and position dental professionals as leaders in holistic, patient-centered care—while remaining within a wellness-based, non-diagnostic framework.

Course Objectives:

At the conclusion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Identify how nutritional status and antioxidant balance influence oral inflammation, healing capacity, and overall patient outcomes within a preventive dental care model.
• Demonstrate how dental professionals can integrate non-invasive nutritional biomarker technology into patient education and coaching to support personalized, wellness-based care.
• Evaluate ways at-home health measurement tools can enhance patient engagement, accountability, and long-term behavior change while reinforcing the dental professional’s role in whole-body health support.

Thank You to Our Course Sponsors

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About the Presenter:

Amanda Hale is a dental hygienist with over 15 years of clinical experience and a strong passion for patient-centered care. She is HIAOMT-accredited through the International Academy of Oral Medicine and Toxicology and is the host of Functional Roots: The Biological Hygiene Podcast (formerly co-host of Hygiene Elevated). Amanda serves as a professional educator and Key Opinion Leader for oral care brands and has contributed to RDH Magazine and Dentistry IQ with a focus on bridging oral health and whole-body wellness. Most recently, she completed her health coaching program through the Functional Medicine Coaching Academy in partnership with the Institute for Functional Medicine and has earned her NBC-HWC credential. Now, she’s stepping into her next chapter—finding creative, real-world ways to bring these tools to life and help patients transform their oral health as part of their overall wellness journey.