Dani Botbyl, RDH has served as the National Clinical Educator with Dentsply Sirona Canada for 24 years. She has developed and presented hundreds evidence-based educational programs to dental hygiene students, pre and post-doctoral dental students, faculty and practicing clinicians nationally and internationally. Dani has been a trailblazer for the advancement of ultrasonic instrumentation in dental hygiene practice and education in North America and abroad. She is credited with assembling and leading the first team of researchers to investigate the topic of ultrasonic instrumentation education, conducting several studies on the integration of an enriched ultrasonic curriculum and its outcomes in dental hygiene programs.