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British Columbia Dental Sedation Regulations |
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| Oral Sedation |
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| The College of Dental Surgeons of
British Columbia advises dentists
to complete "a training program, involving
a didactic and clinical component,
designed to produce competency in
administration of a single oral
sedative, nitrous oxide/oxygen, and a
combination of a single oral sedative
with nitrous oxide/oxygen" before
providing their patients with minimal
sedation using an oral sedative (incl.
Valium®). |
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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 San Francisco.
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| IV
Sedation |
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| For moderate sedation, 'IV Sedation for
Dentistry' at Pittsburgh's
Duquesne University 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 2.2 Million people in British Columbia 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 fulfill your requirements and 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 British Columbia.
Come to San Francisco! |
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