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Montana Dental Sedation Regulations |
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| Oral, Pediatric & IV Sedation |
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| The Montana Board of Dentistry requires a dentist to complete a 40-hour I.V. sedation course, administer 20 clinical patient cases, and obtain a permit before providing oral or IV conscious sedation to dental patients.* |
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| *When the intent is Anxiolysis only, a permit is not required. |
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| 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 500,000 people in Montana 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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