2016 Catalog: All Courses

The purpose of Challenges is to provide new dentists practicing in the Alaska Indian Health Services didactic and hands on training in pediatric dentistry and oral surgery specialties and public health and advanced general dental topics. Participants will receive an overview of Alaska's Dental Health Aide Therapist program

Upon completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

Didactic Session:

Pediatric Dental Learning Objectives

•   Report of referral process for pediatric dental patients to ANMC, Anchorage
•   Identify and discuss appropriate behavior guidance techniques
•   Outline tools of comprehensive pediatric dental treatment planning
•   List preventative practices and tips for pediatric patient oral health
•   Examine pulpal therapy: indications and treatment
•   Discuss indications and contraindications for anterior and posterior composite restorations and stainless steel crowns

Clinical Sessions:
•   Prepare and place anterior for strip crowns
•   Prepare and place stainless steel crowns

Didactic Session:

Oral Surgery Learning Objectives

•   Outline signs and symptoms of maxillary and mandibular jaw fractures
•   List emergent mandible fracture stabilization techniques
•   Discuss signs and symptoms of oral facial infections
•   Examine treatment options for oral facial infections
•   Describe surgical extraction principles and suturing techniques
•   Report on referral process for patients requiring oral surgery services
•   Discuss arrangements for patient and escort travel and lodging


Clinical Sessions:
•   Demonstrate stabilization techniques for jaw fractures including: bridle wires and arch bar placement
•   Design full thickness mucoperiosteal flaps
•   Demonstrate suturing techniques

DHAT/Public Health Learning Objectives
•   Discuss the role of dental health aid therapists in Alaska
•   Examine the fundamentals of Public Health Dentistry
•   Review onsite DHAT training facility

Advanced General Practice Objectives
•   Discuss human papilloma virus and relationship to oral cancer.
•   Review oral cancer screening common and less common signs and symptoms.
•   Present current research for silver diamine fluoride [SDF].
•   Identify clinical indications for use, consent, contraindications, and procedure for use ofSDF.

JAMES SINGLETON — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jsingleton@scf.cc.

James Howell — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jhowell@scf.cc.

THOMAS BREWER — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at tbrewer@scf.cc.

Easte Warnick — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at ewarnick@scf.cc.

Sarah Satow — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at ssatow@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.

Sarah Shoffstall-Cone — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at sshoffstallcone@anthc.org.

Mary Williard — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at mwilliard@ctclusi.org.

Elizabeth Rogers — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at erogers@scf.cc.

Ryan Gard — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at RGard@SouthcentralFoundation.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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Please Make Checks Payable to: Indian Health Service.

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.