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American Dental Association
sedation guidelines provide that a
dentist should complete at least 16 hours of instructive classroom
training with clinically-oriented
experiences before providing healthy
patients with minimal sedation
using oral sedatives (incl.
Valium®)*
Training available in
DC or San Francisco.
*Minnesota Board of
Dentistry (Proposed) Rule §3100.0100
does not require
formal training before providing minimal
sedation to dental patients. |
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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 Seattle. |
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| IV Sedation |
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| For moderate sedation, Pittsburgh's
Duquesne University 'IV Sedation for
Dentistry' course 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 2.5 Million people in Minnesota 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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DOCS Courses are AGD/PACE approved. The MN board states that courses approved by the AGD should meet their requirements, however it must also meet the Board's CE content requirements.
Join Us in DC or San Francisco & fulfill your CE or get permitted in Pittsburgh!
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