Joint Intelligence: Integrating Orthopedics into Modern Dental Practice

May 13

Join your Southeastern Colorado Dental Society colleagues for an engaging and clinically relevant seminar featuring an orthopedic surgeon offering a unique cross-disciplinary perspective for dental professionals. This presentation will explore key considerations in orthopedic preoperative dental evaluation, helping dentists play a critical role in optimizing surgical outcomes and minimizing infection risks.

Joint Intelligence: Integrating Orthopedics into Modern Dental Practice
Wednesday, May 13
5:30 p.m. Plated Dinner
6:00 p.m. Seminar

Pueblo Country Club, 3200 Eighth Ave, Pueblo, CO 81008

REGISTER HERE!

FREE for dental society members; $40 for non-members
Questions? Call or text Dr. Tina Skinner at 719-251-7587

Attendees will gain clarity on current consensus guidelines regarding antibiotic prophylaxis following total joint replacements, including practical decision-making strategies for everyday practice. The session will also address important considerations surrounding dental treatment timing in patients receiving epidural steroid injections, with a focus on safety and risk management.

Finally, we’ll examine the impact of dental practice on dental provider health, including common work-related musculoskeletal disorders and strategies for prevention.

This is a valuable opportunity to bridge medicine and dentistry, enhance interdisciplinary collaboration, and elevate patient care through shared knowledge.

Learning Objectives:

• Considerations for orthopedic preoperative dental evaluation
• Consensus guidelines on antibiotic prophylaxis following total joint replacements
• Considerations for dental work around epidural steroid injections
• “Owning the Bone” initiatives for bone health and dental considerations
• Dental occupation and work-related musculoskeletal disorders

Speaker:

Mimi Lundgren, DO, PhD
Orthopedic Spine Surgeon

Dr. Lundgren is a fellowship-trained spine surgeon. She has extensive surgical experience with microsurgical techniques, outpatient procedures, robotic-assisted surgery, spinal fusions, total disk replacement, fracture care, spinal tumors, deformity correction, and motion preservation procedures. She also has a particular interest and training in minimally invasive surgery of the spine. She believes in working with the patients and other health care providers to identify the origin of their problem and, together, find a solution that will help patients improve their quality of life.

EDUCATION/CERTIFICATIONS:

GRADUATE SCHOOL
Rush University – Chicago, Illinois
PhD in biochemistry studying intervertebral disc degeneration

MEDICAL SCHOOL
Chicago College of Osteopathic Medicine – Downers Grove, Illinois

RESIDENCY
Orthopedic Surgery
Franciscan Health/Midwestern University – Olympia Fields, Illinois

FELLOWSHIP
Orthopedic Spine Surgery
William Beaumont Hospital – Royal Oak, Michigan

BOARD CERTIFICATIONS
American Osteopathic Board of Orthopedic Surgery
Board Eligible, Passed Part I