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Illinois Dental Sedation Regulations

Oral Sedation
Effective May 5, 2010: Illinois State Board of Dentistry Rule § 1220.245(c)(2)(A) requires dental assistants monitoring minimally sedated patients to be certified in at least twelve (12) combined hours of classroom and clinical instruction in “anatomy, physiology, pharmacology, monitoring, and emergency procedures with an emphasis on airway management.”*
Training available in DC. *Dental assistants with a nitrous monitoring certificate must still be certified in at least six (6) additional hours of advanced airway management and monitoring equipment. Dental hygienists with a nitrous certificate do not require additional training.

ADA sedation guidelines recommend 16 hours of training for dentists providing minimal sedation. Illinois State Board of Dentistry Rule §1220.505 does not require formal training before dentists provide minimal sedation.
Training available in Memphis.
Pediatric Sedation
Illinois State
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.
IV Sedation
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 (over 90 hours combined) in order to qualify for an IV permit.
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.

Why Do Sedation Dentistry?
An estimated 6.4 Million people in Illinois 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 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.

DOCS Courses are AGD/PACE approved. Courses approved by the AGD are accepted for continuing education requirements in Illinois.

Join us in DC & fulfill your CE or train your team or come to Pittsburgh to get permitted!
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