Join us throughout 2025 to celebrate 20 Years as the
#1 Prescribed Dental Home Care Tray to Treat and Prevent Gum Disease!
Live events give you the opportunity to network with other providers, and time to develop your own implementation plan. Don't miss our Vegas event, September 20, 2025!
Can't make it to a live event?
Learn more about Perio Protect at your own pace via our self study class!
* Registration is required.
SEPTEMBER IN-PERSON MEETING:
Perio Protect 2025 in Las Vegas
8:30am-5:00pm PST | 6.5 CE Credits
Perio Protect’s Tanya Dunlap, PhD teams up with Sam Shamardi, DMD, Megan Barnett, MS, CNS, and Katrina Sanders-Stewart, RDH, BSDH, M.Ed, RF to deliver four courses LIVE in Las Vegas, NV. Join us for the event on September 20, 2025 and receive 6.5 CE.
Located at:
Green Valley Ranch, 2300 Paseo Verde Parkway, Henderson, NV 89052  |   Visit website »
Fee for all courses is $225/person or $475/team of 3 members.
Call 314-256-0772 for larger groups.
Implant Protect: Mastering Clinical Confidence for Implant Success
Presented by Sam Shamardi, DMD
Rx periodontal trays have been used for 20 years with good results for patients with gingivitis and periodontitis. Using Perio Protect to improve tissue health before restorative work, including implant placement and for implant maintenance, is less well known. This course offers protocols for Perio Tray therapy with implants using case study examples.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the etiology of peri-implant mucositis and peri-implantitis.
- Understand how bacterial profiles affect implant success.
- Review protocols for using Perio Tray therapy before implant placement and in implant maintenance.
Leaky Mouth, Leaky Gut: Clues the Mouth is Giving You About Nutrition,
Digestion and System Disease Risk
Presented by Megan Barnett, MS, CNS
As oral healthcare providers, you have a lens into the health of the whole body and a rare and unique opportunity to connect the dots for your patients. We are entering a new era of scientific research that points towards endless and undeniable relationships between nutrition, digestion, microbiome, metabolism and the health of our oral tissues. In this presentation, you will gain deeper insights about the emerging research and take away practical tools to share with your patients so they can enjoy better oral health and live longer, better lives!
Learning Objectives:
- Make essential connections between your patients' oral health and their disease risk.
- Identify systemic signs and symptoms of leaky barriers and gain tools for repair.
- Understand essential aspects of optimal digestion and assess for your patients' risk.
- Review nutrition basics essential for oral health and learn how to inspire your patients.
The Yellow Brick Road to Healthy Gums: A Patient-Centered Health Protocol
Presented by Katrina Sanders-Stewart, RDH, BSDH, M.Ed, RF
Join us as we follow the yellow brick road toward advanced periodontal care, offering a patient-centered approach to achieving "Emerald City Gums."
Throughout the program, we'll explore the pathophysiology of gum disease, its risk factors, and the innovative treatments that can bring your patients back to a place of vibrant health. Much like Dorothy’s quest to find her way home, we will teach you how to tailor personalized care plans to meet each patient's unique needs, including lifestyle modifications, nutritional advice, and the latest periodontal advancements.
Effective communication, as powerful as the ruby slippers, will be at your disposal to motivate and educate patients, ensuring they remain on the path to long-term oral wellness.
Through interactive workshops and practical demonstrations, you'll gain the skills to create robust periodontal health protocols that will leave your patients feeling like they have a heart, brain, and courage to take on their oral health challenges.
Come along for the adventure and learn how to guide your patients to the land of healthy gums and a lifetime of smiles!
Learning Objectives:
- Develop a thorough understanding of the pathophysiology of gum disease and the various risk factors associated with its development and progression.
- Learn to create and implement personalized care plans that integrate lifestyle modifications, nutritional guidance, and cutting-edge periodontal therapies tailored to individual patient needs.
- Master effective communication techniques to educate and motivate patients, ensuring adherence to treatment protocols and promoting long-term oral health.
Inflammation Drivers: Honing Case Presentation to Address Chronic Disease
Presented by Tanya Dunlap, PhD
Reducing chronic infectious burdens on the immune system has always been important in healthcare, and dentistry is no different. Oral infections like those associated with gum disease place a chronic low-grade burden on the immune system, and treatment for it has been associated with improvements in systemic health outcomes.
Come to this course to review the importance of health histories and to learn how to talk to your patients about the importance of treatment for a disease that doesn’t yet hurt but already compromises their health. We’ll review the science and the practice of Rx Tray homecare and provide clear steps for case presentation.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe improvements in systemic health outcomes from periodontal therapy.
- Identify patients who can benefits from Rx tray delivery of oxidative and oxygenating antimicrobial agents.
- Practice a 5-step case presentation model to help patients understand the importance of therapy and replies for when patients delay treatment.
Sam Shamardi, DMD
Founder of
Dental Innovations LLC
Megan Barnett, MS, CNS
Functional Medicine Provider,
Nutrition Coach, Clinic Owner
& Educator
Katrina Sanders-Stewart,
RDH, BSDH, M.Ed, RF
Clinical Dental Hygienist,
Author and Speaker
Tanya Dunlap, PhD
Vice President of Clinical & Business Development,
Perio Protect
Sam Shamardi, DMD
Dr. Sam Shamardi is a clinician, educator, author, and entrepreneur. Born in Spain and raised in southern California, Dr. Shamardi earned his DMD at Tufts University School of Dental Medicine.
Dr. Shamardi received his Periodontal certificate from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology and Implant Surgery and practices full-time while teaching part-time as a Clinical Instructor at the Harvard Dental Division of Periodontics.
He is also the founder of Dental Innovations LLC, a company aimed at providing novel solutions to unaddressed issues within dentistry. He lectures nationally and internationally in topics within periodontics and hearing loss in dentistry and has published multiple articles while being recognized as a dental entrepreneur for his revolutionary EarAid product.
Megan Barnett, MS, CNS
Megan Barnett is an experienced functional medicine provider, nutritional coach, clinic owner, research writer, public speaker and educator with over eight years in the field of nutrition science and functional medicine. She has worked with Perio Protect provider Kelly Blodgett for several years identifying nutritional causes for patients to prevent and reverse chronic symptoms and promote health and longevity.
Katrina Sanders-Stewart,
RDH, BSDH, M.Ed, RF
Katrina Sanders-Stewart is a clinical dental hygienist, author, and speaker with a unique approach to delivering continuing dental education. Her lectures incorporate a caring, comedic and supportive style. She is passionate about educating, empowering and instilling compassion within the dental hygiene industry. Katrina’s zest for dental hygiene is infused throughout her content as she lectures on provocative topics while leaving participants with a call to action and an abundantly renewed sense of pride for their industry.
Tanya Dunlap, PhD
Tanya Dunlap, PhD is Vice President of Clinical and Business Development at Perio Protect, where she has worked since 2005. For several years she served as the research liaison for the company, working with researchers who tested Perio Tray® therapy in controlled clinical trials and microbiology studies. Her expertise on this adjunctive periodontal therapy is grounded in the data, explaining how the prescription trays work, and which patient candidates can benefit from them.
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