10-WEEK COHORT COURSE
SEATS ARE LIMITED!
How much longer are you willing to practice knowing there’s a more effective way to assess risk, communicate value, and influence patient outcomes? The question isn’t whether your practice will evolve—it’s whether you’ll choose to lead that evolution now.
Spend 10 weeks with me in the OPSM Framework™ Certification, and you may never look at a hygiene appointment or your role in healthcare the same way again. This isn’t just another course. It’s a transformational experience that will change how you think, communicate, and practice.
Learn how oral inflammation is mechanistically linked to cardiovascular disease, diabetes, early cognitive decline, and other systemic conditions — and how to use that evidence inside a real appointment, not just as background knowledge.
Through the Script Vault, students get word-for-word language for introducing systemic risk, presenting salivary diagnostics, and handling patient pushback — communication skills that build trust and change long-term outcomes.
Through Calibration Cases, students practice decision-making in scenarios that mirror their actual schedule — building the diagnostic fluency to integrate inflammatory biomarkers and case complexity consistently, not just on easy days.
PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR MOUTH IS
One hygienist can change a patient's life. An entire practice can change a community's. Enroll at the level that's right for you — with team pricing that rewards you for bringing others along.
You're ready to lead. You don't need permission — just the system. This one's for the RDH who's done waiting for her practice to catch up.
Better together. Whether it's you and your dentist or your whole hygiene team, a shared standard changes everything. Split the cost. Multiply the impact.
When the whole practice speaks the same clinical language, patients feel it. Best value, biggest shift. Let's build the standard together.
YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Melissa Obrotka, BA, RDH
I've been at the chair for 27 years and still am every week in a periodontal and prosthodontic specialty practice. Every protocol in the OPSM Framework™ was built and tested in a real appointment, on a real schedule, with real patients.
This is where I teach it to you, one step at a time, with live calls to help apply what you're learning.
OPEN WIDE!
When you enroll in The OPSM Freamework™ Certification Program, this is what you'll get...
SKILL EXPANDER
Short daily modules build the OPSM standard into your workflow one layer at a time — no burnout, no overwhelm.
EXPERT MENTOR
Bring your real cases and clinical questions directly to Melissa — live weekly calls for personalized support (replays provided).
CAREER BUILDER
Earn 13 CEUs upon successful completion of the OPSM Framework™ Certification, presented in accordance with AGD PACE standards.
BRAIN SAVER
Professionally written templates that make patient referrals to physicians fast, credible, and effortless.
TIME SAVER
Chairside language, neurologically designed using Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) principles—field-tested, precise, and ready to use with your very next patient to create relevance, build understanding, and inspire action.
MOMENTUM BUILDER
A structured roadmap that keeps your OPSM implementation on track and helps you move forward when the course ends.
This activity was planned and implemented in accordance with the Academy of General Dentistry Program Approval for Continuing Education (PACE) standards, through joint program provider approval by UpScale Education, LLC, and Melissa Obrotka, BA, RDH.
STUDENT TESTIMONIALS
Brace yourself. These are pretty good.
REBOOT Your Hygiene Practice Attendee
Rediscovering purpose that is infused in OPSM™
“I came to Reboot to sharpen my skills and reconnect with why I started this journey. Melissa has had a powerful mission from day one, and this course didn’t disappoint. It made me excited about dental hygiene again — I can’t wait to see where I take my future from here.”
Live Course Participant
The impact that sparked OPSM™
“Melissa’s class changed my f*cking life. I thought I was just cleaning teeth… but now I see we’re impacting whole-body health. The entire trajectory of my career changed because of what I learned from her. 10 out of 10 — I’d recommend it to anyone.”
REBOOT Your Hygiene Practice Attendee
The foundation that inspired OPSM™
“I was feeling bored and drowning in my day-to-day. After this experience, I feel like I have a fresh start. I’m excited again — and I can’t wait to apply this in practice.”
NO STUPID QUESTIONS
The OPSM Framework™ runs Monday through Thursday with daily drip content in 15 to 25 minutes per day, less time than your morning scroll. Fridays include a one-hour live group coaching call where science becomes skill, and all calls are recorded so you never fall behind. Ten weeks. Twenty-five minutes a day. One hour on Fridays.
Friday group coaching calls are held live on Zoom at a time determined by cohort availability. Can't make it live? Submit your questions in advance, and they will be answered on the call as if you were in the room.
Yep! All group calls will be recorded and available inside the course portal within 24 hours.
Course enrollment includes lifetime access to the course and all course content.
The OPSM Framework™is a cohort model. Modules are released weekly, with live calibration sessions. We list specific cohort dates at enrollment.
Participants who successfully complete the OPSM Framework™ Certification will earn 13 continuing education units (CEUs).
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Academy of General Dentistry Program Approval for Continuing Education (PACE) standards, through the joint program provider approval of UpScale Education, LLC, and Melissa Obrotka, BA, RDH.
Yes! The two-provider enrollment is specifically designed for the RDH and dentist to complete together, so the clinical standard is shared across the practice.
The OPSM Framework™ is a digital education program and, as such, all sales are final once the course period begins. Because we deliver content and make it accessible from day one, we will not issue refunds after the cohort start date.
If you have questions about whether this program is the right fit before enrolling, please reach out to Melissa directly at melissa@itsthebadasshygienist.com