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American Dental Association
sedation guidelines provide that a
dentist should complete at least 24 hours of instructive classroom
training with at least 10 clinical
patient experiences before providing
healthy adult patients with
moderate sedation using oral sedatives
(incl. Valium®)*
Training is available in
San Francisco.
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*The Utah
Board of Dentists and Dental Hygienists
requires a Class I (dispensing) permit,
and a Class II permit (if nitrous is
used), but does not currently require
formal training before providing oral
sedation to dental patients. The ADA
guidelines recommend at least 16 hours training for minimal
sedation.
Training available in
Denver.
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| Pediatric Sedation |
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Pediatric Sedation Dentistry:
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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| 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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| Why Do Oral Sedation? |
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An estimated 1 Million people in Utah 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 Utah.
Come to San Francisco! |
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