If you want real, if you want to be exceptional than this is your person! Melissa sets the standard and the bar for dental hygienists and the best thing is she wants to raise us all up there with herself. If you get the pleasure of watching Melissa present then you get to experience the true rockstar hygienist.

Melissa is a wealth of both knowledge and passion on systemic health, periodontal treatment and implants. She generously shares that knowledge with so many people, she leads and helps hygienists all over the world. She is a dynamic presenter who inspires you every time you listen to her.

Melissa has a dynamic demeanor when presenting real life encounters in clinical practice and how to problem solve while keeping you engaged and entertained for hours. Her passion is explosive and educational visualization techniques are impactful wanting everyone in the audience excited to return to clinical practice.

She is an elite professional speaker, clinician and mentor. Her speciality implementing and training on the latest technology, research and patient care while also being aware of return on investment of the business and practice is the future of dental hygiene—not cleaning teeth.

Melissa is every Dental Hygienist's, Hygienist. All the qualities you know a dental hygienist should have, Melissa has. And those attributes come across in the way that she speaks and teaches.

Melissa takes her passion for upholding the standards of care for patient treatment and through her lectures and hands on training, empowers you to want better for yourself and your patients. That's a sign of true leadership and a great teacher. Melissa stays on top of cutting edge dentistry especially for implant care and guided biofilm therapy. And whenever you need her for advice (no matter how complex a patient case or circumstance is) she is willing to help.

I have been on the Bergen Community College Department of Dental Hygiene Program faculty for 18 years. When Melissa Obrotka, a former student of the Program, joined the existing faculty as an adjunct Professor, her colleagues were quick to notice her fresh outlook on clinical care. She had vast experience both in and outside the Program, having worked for an extensive Prosthetic Dental Practice. Eager to learn and eager to teach, Melissa had an intense desire to transform portions of the educational disciplines that were traditional to the Program for many years. There was new information, new techniques, and a new strategy she felt should supplement the clinical Program. While working alongside Melissa, I learned many things as well. She helped revamp my thinking about periodontal disease, its etiology, and the approach to lessen and eliminate its cause.

Guided Biofilm Therapy and state-of-the-art “Airflow” technologies became part of the Bergen Hygiene Program. Melissa gave many didactic and clinical lectures, paving the way for a new approach. In addition, she instilled in her students the proper pathway to “GBT” care.

As a clinician, Melissa has a comfortable chairside demeanor. Her students admire her and eagerly learn from her. She readily discussed traditional hand instrument disciplines and improved techniques chairside for countless students.