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District Of Columbia Dental Sedation Regulations |
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| Oral Sedation |
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| 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 DC.
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| *ADA guidelines recommend 16 hours training for minimal sedation. The DC Board of Dentistry does not currently require formal training before providing oral conscious sedation to adult dental patients.
NOTE: In order to practice within the standard of care, the following are recommended: |
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Moderate oral sedation standard of care
(2007 ADA guidelines):
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| Strongly recommended by DOCS:
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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 Memphis.
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| Why Do Oral Sedation? |
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An estimated 300,000 people in the District of Columbia 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. Courses approved by the AGD are accepted for continuing education in the District of Columbia.
Come to DC! |
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