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Iowa Dental Sedation Regulations |
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| Oral, Pediatric & IV Sedation |
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| The Iowa Dental Board requires a
dentist to complete a 60-hour I.V. sedation course,
administer 20 clinical patient cases,
and obtain a permit before providing
oral or IV moderate sedation to dental
patients.* This training is now
available in Pittsburgh |
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| *When the intent is single-agent
minimal sedation only, a permit is
not required. |
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| For moderate sedation,
Duquesne University's 'IV 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 Sedation Dentistry? |
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An estimated 1.5 Million people in Iowa 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 sedation dentistry 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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