Patient Communication Tools
Download and print these educational pieces to help your patients understand periodontitis and reinforce the importance of your treatment plan.
Patient Brochure
Download and print this brochure, available in both English and Spanish, so patients can read an overview of periodontal disease. We surveyed both patients and dental professionals across the country to see what patients need to learn about periodontal disease and what is the best way to explain the answers. Diagrams, pictures, and simple language provide answers to the most common patient questions. It includes space to make notes and an "inside your mouth" chart you can draw on for each patient.
Patient Flip Chart
Download and print this 8-page flip chart, available in both English and Spanish. Its diagrams, photos, and facts and figures will assist you in educating patients about periodontal disease. It shows: how common periodontal disease is; what periodontal disease looks like through various stages and the consequences of non-treatment; how you measure pockets and what the numbers mean; how you and your patient will treat periodontal disease as a team; how ARESTIN® works.
Patient Education Videos
Click on the images below to watch the videos online. To copy the videos to your computer, right-click on the download links and choose "Save Target As", and save the videos to your desktop or another folder. When you access the videos from your computer, you will be able to click on the continuous loop button for continuous play within your video player, such as QuickTime or VLC Video Player.
Waiting Room Trivia - Play this in the waiting room and let patients test their dental knowledge.
Operatory Conversation - This video demonstrates a patient's journey - from diagnosis to treatment.
Animated Flip Chart - Use this interactive tool to start a one-on-one dialog with patients.
Play this educational video for your patients to help them understand periodontitis and reinforce the importance of your treatment plan. The video is a Monologue by an experienced periodontist; he explains periodontal disease, its consequences, and its treatment directly to the viewer.
Patient Communication Role-Play Videos
Improve your communications by watching dialogue of a dentist or a hygienist talking to patients about the 4 most common concerns of patients with periodontal disease. Videos are unscripted; the dentist and hygienist answer, in their own words, the way they do every day in their practice.
Dialogues: Dentist Discussing Concerns with Patients
Patient does not understand what periodontal disease is, nor why a "simple" oral antibiotic can't cure it.
Patient questions the "sudden onset" of periodontal disease and why she needs treatment for something with no symptoms.
Patient is timid, afraid of pain, and therefore reluctant to have any procedure beyond regular cleaning.
Patient is concerned about cost and insurance coverage.
Dialogues: Hygienist Discussing Concerns with Patients
Patient does not understand what periodontal disease is, nor why a "simple" oral antibiotic can't cure it.
Patient questions the "sudden onset" of periodontal disease and why she needs treatment for something with no symptoms.
Patient is timid, afraid of pain, and therefore reluctant to have any procedure beyond regular cleaning.
Patient is concerned about cost and insurance coverage.
