Betel Nut, Chat or Kola Nut - How Cultural Habits Influence Oral Cancer Globally
The incidence of oral cancer is rising. The course describes how the oral health professional’s awareness of cultural oral habits is integral to human wellness and global health. It illustrates how geographically remote populations with their unique habits can eventually have a profound effect on local dental practices as populations immigrate worldwide. The audience will be powerfully engaged through a PowerPoint of cultural oral habit research from Vietnam. Audience interaction is invited as to the crisis on oral health in the dental practice and to motivate preventive solutions.
Health and Wellness Inspiration/Motivation Oral Cancer
Past Presentations
UBC Dentistry Continuing Dental Education; Vancouver, BC Vancouver & District Dental Society Winter Clinic; Vancouver, BC
Third District Dental Society;
Albany, NY
Future Presentations
Pacific Dental Conference; Vancouver, BC
Biographical Information
Sherry Priebe has been impacting the lives of people around the world with her life focus to “assist people to attain optimum oral health through research, education and clinical practice”. Sherry is a UBC graduate with a Masters in Science doing research in Vietnam. Sherry was awarded the ‘World Dental Hygienist Award in Research’ at the International Symposium on Dental Hygiene in 2010. She has volunteered and presented her research on cultural oral habits and oral cancer in Africa, Asia and Canada. She has published articles nationally and internationally. Sherry is an independent contractor dental hygienist in Kelowna, BC.
