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California Dental Sedation Regulations |
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| Oral Sedation |
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Dental Board of California
CCR §§1043-1044
Anxiolysis (adult and
pediatric):
CA dental license
Oral conscious sedation (adult
only)*:
GPR, pediatric, or perio
residency; or
25-hour board-approved course
with 1 live adult patient experience.
(This training is available
in San Francisco)
*NOTE: If you already
have a pediatric sedation permit or an
I.V. sedation permit, you are already
covered for adult oral conscious
sedation and do not need to
obtain a separate Adult OCS
permit.
Oral conscious sedation (adult and
pediatric):
GPR, pediatric, or perio
residency; or
25-hour board-approved course with 1
live pediatric patient experience (Pediatric training is
available in San Francisco)
I.V. conscious sedation (adult and
pediatric):
60-hour course
with 20 patient cases consistent with
ADA guidelines. (This training is now
available in Pittsburgh)
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| DOCS Education’s 'Oral Sedation
Dentistry' and 'Pediatric
Sedation
Dentistry' courses are the
only AGD/PACE-approved,
permit-qualifying CE programs for adult
and pediatric oral conscious sedation in
California providing 26
hours of CE that may also be used for
license renewal.
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Sedation |
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| Duquesne University’s 'I.V. Sedation for
Dentistry' course in
Pittsburgh provides
over 60 hours of didactic instruction
plus
management of as many as 30 patients by
the intravenous route per participant in
order to qualify for an IV permit. |
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Regulatory assistance: DOCS membership provides direct access to our full-time Regulatory Counsel for assistance in complying with the training and equipment requirements, obtaining your permit, and addressing advertising issues.
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| Why Do Oral Sedation? |
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An estimated 18.2 Million people in California 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.
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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. DOCS is a California continuing education sponsor.
Come to San Francisco! |
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