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| In order for a dentist to provide sedation, the standard of care should be adhered to. The American Dental Association sedation guidelines provide that a dentist should complete at least 24 hours of instructive classroom training with at least 10 clinical patient experiences before providing healthy adult patients with minimal and moderate sedation using oral sedatives (incl. Valium®)* This training is available in San Francisco!
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| *ADA guidelines recommend 16 hours
training for minimal sedation. The Alaska
Board of Dental Examiners does not
currently require formal training before
providing oral conscious sedation to
dental patients.
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| Pediatric Sedation |
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| Sedation dentistry for children is a unique science and requires pediatric-specific training. The standard of care for providing pediatric sedation requires several hours of instructive classroom training with clinically-oriented experiences. This training is available in Seattle.
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| Why Do Oral Sedation? |
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An estimated 350,000 people in Alaska are currently in need of dental care but are too fearful to seek you out. To date, access to care for these patients has been limited. Now you can help.
Practicing oral sedation has many advantages for you, not the least of which is treating a more comfortable patient. Other advantages are: performing more dentistry in a single visit instead of having the patient come back again and again; bigger restorative cases from patients who were previously reluctant due to anxiety; and patients feeling little to no post-operative discomfort regardless of the procedure - resulting in more referrals.
And for your patients it means something else. A comfortable experience - often with no recollection of the visit or the time passed. I often hear of patients who call their dentist the next day not to complain, but to express their gratitude and delight in their first ever visit to the dentist without fear.
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Get the education you need to fulfill your requirements and provide safe and effective oral conscious sedation to those in need. Get started today!
DOCS courses are AGD/PACE approved and are accepted in Alaska for continuing education requirements.
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