Sarah Eller, RDH, IPDH

Personal Details

Bio

Sarah Eller, RDH, IPDH is a 2014 graduate of New Hampshire Technical Institute’s Dental Hygiene program. Sarah’s previously associated name in the industry was Sarah Clark, which changed with her recent marriage to her husband Johnathan. With a passion for advocacy, Sarah went on to volunteer for the Maine Dental Hygienists’ Association holding various roles including President, through 2021, until relocating to North Carolina.

Sarah currently holds many roles in dentistry including Head of Clinical Operations for the NYC-based startup Wally Health, Inc., Adjunct Clinical faculty at Coastal Carolina Community College, and co-owner of UpScale Education LLC. Recognized as an international speaker and key opinion leader, Sarah presents continuing education programs with a focus on balancing the oral microbiome and stress management in the clinical setting.

Sarah has also contributed many articles and podcasts to the dental community over the years and also contributed a chapter to the book Get Your Spit Together. In 2022, Sarah became the first dental hygienist approved to administer local anesthesia in North Carolina, and provided the first live injection to a patient by a hygienist in the state.

Current position (3)

Founder

Sarah Eller, RDH

Co-Founder

UpScale Education, LLC

Head of Clinical Operations

Wally Health

Degrees (1)

Dental Hygiene

NHTI - Concord's Community College

2010 to 2013

Presentations

Presentations (3)

Namaste In My Op

A program to teach Dental Professionals the art of mindfulness and stress-management as they pertain to the stressful nature of a career in dentistry. Interactive and hands-on the audience will utilize these techniques throughout the program, learning to implement them in their daily lives. Understand the personal stress profile of the individual and how to apply management techniques to your patients in clinical practice.

Objectives:

Learn to recognize the signs and symptoms of stress and define the different types of stress
Actively break down the individual stress profile
Utilize different stress-management techniques and mindfulness to improve career and life quality
Apply techniques to your patients to assess their stress and physical manifestations of stress
Understand the seriousness that the effects of stress have on the workforce through statistics
Learn to face fears, take control of your mindset, & center your emotions

The Missing pHuzzle Piece

Do you ever have the patient that appears to be doing everything right with their homecare, but can’t escape the cycle of decay? Or the patient that proudly admits their lack of home dental care, but always seems to be healthy? Sometimes, looking in the mouth you can tell things just don’t make sense, but why?

These patients are in our presence every single day, and while something just doesn't add up, it can be difficult to understand exactly what is happening, why it's happening, or how to address it.

This course will evaluate these situation and how oral pH plays a major role, but is most often the missing puzzle piece. Learn how to approach creating a change, which involves a paradigm shift from our traditional 'brush more, floss more, use more fluoride' type of thinking. Are you ready to discover the missing pHuzzle piece?

Prophy-Cient Practice

We all know well the typical outline of a hygiene recare appointment - radiographs, scaling, OHI, reappoint. One could argue that this is also the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results...

Clearly, it is time for a change in how we practice preventie care and emerging practice methods that can help create this change are finally available. These methods will completely change the outline of the hygiene appointment reflecting new and necessary technologies and treatment methodologies that lead to better clinical outcomes.

Take a step closer to proficient practice!