Registration open through 1/15/2021 11:59 PM

PLEASE NOTE:

Following Registration and Payment:

Please Read the instructions in your Confirmation email.

It will include a link to a brief Zoom webinar registration form that must be completed PRIOR to the course.

Please click on that link and complete the form at your earliest convenience.

After completion, you will receive an email from PittDentalCE that includes a link to join the course on the scheduled date/time.

For more information on how to participate in our Zoom webinars: Zoom Participation Guide.

This course is the first of three Anesthesia Permit Renewal (five-hour) course offerings designed to provide the dentist with the requisite number of anesthesia-based continuing education credit hours necessary for maintenance of their Pennsylvania state-issued anesthesia permit.

A dentist possessing a permit must complete at least 15 credit hours of anesthesia-related CE during each continuing education cycle.

A dentist who does not possess an anesthesia permit, but opts to employ a permit holder for anesthesia services must receive 5 CE credit hours specific for anesthesiology. This course will meet that requirement. Please call the dental board for specific details.

Overview:

Dentists are confronted with an increasing number of patients who require advanced behavior guidance techniques for their dental treatments. Optimizing health, managing anxiety, and controlling peri-operative pain increase the odds of successful oral rehabilitation. This section of the series aims to present considerations to help the clinician treatment plan for success.

This course also offers dentists updates in local anesthesia safety and efficacy. The most current clinical information regarding effective and safe use of local anesthetics in dental practice will be presented. Topics to be addressed include indications for long-acting local anesthetics, buffering of anesthetics, and innovative, approaches currently under investigation. A review of post-operative pain management will be provided.

Objectives:
After completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• appreciate the importance of systemic health and its relationship to successful outcomes

• discuss the three components of treatment planning (Medical, Dental/Surgical, Behavior) and how to customize to an individual patient

• compare risk vs. benefit as it relates to safe care

• realize advantages and disadvantages of injectable and topical local anesthetics

• summarize the different modalities to manage post-operative pain

Matthew Cooke, DDS, MD, MPH

Associate Professor, Department of Dental Anesthesiology, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh and Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry

Bryant W. Cornelius, DDS, MBA, MPH, FAGD 

Assistant Professor and Program Director, Dental/Oral Maxillofacial Oral Surgery, The Ohio State University College of Dentistry

Paul Moore, DMD, PhD, MPH

Professor of Pharmacology and Dental Public Health (Retired), School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh