2010 Catalog: All Courses

The purpose of this highly interactive training for the Puyallup Tribal Health Authority Dental Staff is to teach how materials used for restorative, endodontic, preventive and prosthodontics therapies work. This training will provide the opportunity to review the step by step procedures for various materials and to better understand their working properties. In addition, patient protocols will be reviewed to include fluoride therapy, oral hygiene instruction, caries risk assessment and radiographic schedules. Also, new technologies, equipment, instruments and procedures that we have implemented will be presented.

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:
1. Understand the restorative materials used and proper technique for their use, to include Filtek Supreme, Prime and Bond NT, All-Bond, Panavia 21, Luxacore, ProTemp, Trim Acrylic and MicroPrime G to name a few.
2. Become familiar with the proper use and maintenance of the Elements Endodontic System.
3. Understand principles and techniques for proper oral hygiene instruction, fluoride application and the principles for the caries risk assessment and corresponding definitions. Understand guidelines for radiographic schedules.
4. Understand the Oral Surgery instruments that we use in our clinic. Re-familiarizing ourselves with forceps/elevators names/numbers and their functions.
5. Know how the AAAHC Accreditation Survey Process works, how we will improve.

Sean Kelly — Retired from the Commissioned Corps [USPHS - IHS] 8/1/2017. Maintained my position as the Dental Director for the Puyallup Tribal Health Authority until September 2021. Serving as the Clinical Consultant for the Northwest Tribal Dental Support Center since 2020. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at drkelly55@gmail.com.

ROSS SILVER — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Ross@eptha.com.

Simon Yan — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at yan3kingdoms@yahoo.com.

It is the policy of the Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, that faculty/planners disclose any financial or other relationships with commercial companies whose products may be discussed in the educational activity. The Indian Health Service, Division of Oral Health, also requires that faculty disclose any unlabeled or investigative use of pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Images that have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes are prohibited.

None of the faculty/planners for this activity has a conflict of interest, and there is no use of unlabeled or investigative pharmaceutical products or medical devices. No images have been falsified or manipulated to misrepresent treatment outcomes.The educational objectives, content, and selection of educational methods and instructors are conducted independent of any commercial entity.

The IHS Division of Oral Health is an accredited sponsor of continuing education under the American Dental Association Continuing Education Recognition Program (CERP). ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry. Concerns or complaints about a CE provider may be directed to the IHS at IHS CDE Coordinator or to the Commission for Continuing Education Provider Recognition at CCEPR.ada.org

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Tuition must be paid in full 8 weeks prior to the start date of any course. Request for refunds must be received in writing at least two weeks before the course begins. For each refund request, there will be an administrative charge of $100. No refunds will be made to registrants who fail to attend a course. If IHS CDE program cancels a course, then 100% of the tuition will be refunded.