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DD0013: Challenges in an Indian Health Service [IHS] Dental Practice
The goal of Challenges is to share experiences and ideas among dentists new to the Indian Health Service. We plan to help strengthen your skills and clinical confidence particularly in the specialty areas of pediatric dentistry, and oral surgery, so that you can address the unique treatment needs of a diverse patient population. The course will include clinical data analysis, personnel training, and problem solving.
Pediatric Dental Learning Objectives
Didactic Session:
1. Report of referral process for pediatric dental patients to ANMC, Anchorage
2. Identify and discuss appropriate behavior guidance techniques
3. Outline tools of comprehensive pediatric dental treatment planning
4. List preventative practices and tips for pediatric patient oral health
5. Examine pulpal therapy: indications and treatment
6. Discuss indications and contraindications for anterior and posterior composite restorations and stainless steel crowns
Clinical Sessions:
1. Prepare and place anterior for strip crowns
2. Prepare and place stainless steel crowns
Oral Surgery Learning Objectives
Didactic Session:
1. Outline signs and symptoms of maxillary and mandibular jaw fractures
2. List emergent mandible fracture stabilization techniques
3. Discuss signs and symptoms of oral facial infections
4. Examine treatment options for oral facial infections
5. Describe surgical extraction principles and suturing techniques
6. Report on referral process for patients requiring oral surgery services
7. Discuss arrangements for patient and escort travel and lodging
Clinical Sessions:
1. Demonstrate stabilization techniques for jaw fractures including: bridle wires and arch bar placement
2. Design full thickness mucoperiosteal flaps
3. Demonstrate suturing techniques
John Etter — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jetter@scf.cc.
Jennifer Lombrano — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at gi.jlo100@gmail.com.
Dana Fox — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at dfox@scf.cc.
JAMES SINGLETON — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jsingleton@scf.cc.
THOMAS BREWER — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at tbrewer@scf.cc.
Alison Walsh — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at AWalsh@SouthcentralFoundation.com.
Sarah Shoffstall-Cone — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at sshoffstallcone@anthc.org.
James Howell — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jhowell@scf.cc.
Jody Atzmon — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jatzmon@scf.cc.
NANCY TONE — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at .
Daniel Mendez — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at dmendez@scf.cc.
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
Dentists practicing in Alaska for less than one year.
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.
