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Kansas Dental Sedation Regulations |
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| Oral Sedation |
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Effective December 1,
2010: Kansas Dental Board
(Adopted) Rule §71-
5-
10(a)(3)(A) will require a
dentist to complete at least 18 hours of instructive classroom
training, observe 20 clinical
patient experiences, and obtain a Level
I permit before administering oral
conscious sedation to adult
patients.* This training is
available in DC.
*Additional pediatric-specific
training is required if oral sedation
patients are under age 13.
Grandfathering is also
available for the new Level I permit.
When
the intent is anxiolysis only on a
patient of any age, a permit will not be
required.
Currently: Kansas
does not
require formal training before providing
oral conscious sedation to dental
patients. However, the standard of care
calls for appropriate training and
necessary equipment.
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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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| IV
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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 1.5 Million people in Kansas 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 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 Kansas.
Come to DC! |
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