This highly interactive full-day programme is designed for GBT clinicians who want to fine-tune their technique, troubleshoot real clinical challenges and get more out of their EMS equipment. Whether you’re looking to master aerosol control, improve patient comfort, or simply ensure you’re using every element of your machine to its full potential — this is the course for you.
Using state-of-the-art AIRFLOW®, PERIOFLOW® and PIEZON® technologies, GBT offers a systematic, predictable and evidence-based approach to biofilm management — built on individual patient diagnosis and risk assessment for optimal clinical outcomes delivered with the highest levels of comfort, safety and efficiency.
Why Attend This Updated Training?
This is more than a refresher — it’s a master class in GBT technical know-how. Expect lively discussion, real-world troubleshooting and hands-on practice that directly addresses the challenges you face in the chair every day. Topics covered include:
- The latest EMS protocol updates, product advancements and equipment tips — including PSL and PSR tips, the booster button, and getting the most from your machine
- Aerosol control strategies and sensitivity management — practical solutions for common chairside challenges
- Advanced implant maintenance and periodontal protocols — with expanded clinical focus in the November session
- Basic machine maintenance — water and air filter changes, foot pedal batteries, pairing your device and using every feature with confidence
- Introduction to the new OptraGate2 & the new OptraGate Dry Control — demonstration and hands-on practice to ensure you’re fully comfortable with insertion technique
- Hands-on clinical practice in our new clinical room — real chair time, not just models
Have a specific GBT protocol question or challenge you’d like covered? Send it through ahead of the day and we’ll make sure it’s on the agenda.
Meet Your Trainer
Dirna Grobbelaar is a seasoned oral hygienist with over two decades of clinical experience, based in Cape Town. As Oral Hygiene Advisor at Ivohealth and a leading SDA accredited GBT trainer in South Africa, Dirna has trained hundreds of dental professionals in Guided Biofilm Therapy. She practices at Intercare Tyger Valley, Durbanville, where she applies the latest EMS GBT techniques daily.
Academic credentials: Diploma in Oral Hygiene, University of Stellenbosch (1999); Expanded Functions, University of Pretoria (2000) and University of the Western Cape (2013).
Previously attended GBT training?
This is also an ideal opportunity for clinicians whose GBT certification may be approaching expiry to renew.
Course Content
08:30 Registration
- Understanding Biofilm and Oral Disease The role of dental biofilm in caries, gingivitis, periodontitis and peri-implant disease.
- Introduction to Guided Biofilm Therapy What sets GBT apart from traditional prophylaxis — the scientific rationale, the role of visualisation, and the clinical case for evidence-based preventive care.
Tea Break
- The GBT Clinical Workflow An in-depth walkthrough of the structured 8-step GBT protocol, including clinical assessment and risk evaluation, biofilm disclosure, patient education and motivation, supra- and subgingival biofilm removal, powder selection, electric scaler use, and recall and maintenance planning. We’ll also cover aerosol control best practice and managing patient sensitivity — two of the most common chairside challenges.
- Clinical Application Across Disciplines
– Preventive dentistry and routine hygiene care
– Periodontal maintenance and supportive periodontal therapy
– Implant care and maintenance
– Restorative, orthodontic and high-risk patients
Lunch
Hands-On Session — including live practice in our clinical room
- Supra- and subgingival air polishing techniques on models
- Correct powder selection for different clinical scenarios
- Piezon scaling techniques
- PI MAX implant maintenance protocol
- Full GBT protocol implementation
- PSL and PSR tip selection and technique
- OptraGate 2 introduction and hands-on insertion practice
- Machine maintenance workshop — filters, foot pedal, pairing and booster button settings
- Live clinical practice in the Ivodent Training Centre’s new clinical room
