2010 Catalog: All Courses

The geographic, cultural, and social diversity of Alaska provides unique challenges for dentists who are new to Alaska and the profession of dentistry. This course is designed to assist in the transition to this new environment by providing a fundamental knowledge base upon which to safely, effectively, and efficiently provide dental care to Alaska Native patients.

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

1. Understand and discuss tribal and corporation relationships within the Alaska Native healthcare system; cultural issues that affect dental providers’ relationships with their patients; and unique health challenges that affect Alaska Native populations.

2. Provide principles of health promotion, disease prevention, and medical management and be able to interpret them relative to oral health.

3. Effectively manage pediatric patients and provide pediatric treatment, including stainless steel crowns and composite strip crowns.

4. Diagnose and treat endodontically involved teeth.

5. Demonstrate oral surgical diagnosis, suturing, and basic biopsy procedures.

Pauline Linhart — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at pauline.linhart@ihs.gov.

Roberto Reyes — Koweta Indian Health Facility Dental Supervisor, Dental Officer Advance General Practice Resident Alaska Native Medical Center Anchorage, Alaska For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at roberto.reyes@creekhealth.org.

GARY KEEL — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at gkeel@scf.cc.

Daniel Trebus — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at DanielTrebus@yahoo.com.

CAROL MCDANIEL — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at .

John Etter — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jetter@scf.cc.

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