2018 Catalog: All Courses

This quarterly seminar is held to present updated clinical and non-clinical information through continuing dental education courses to IHS dental personnel within OCA.

The course will have t2o 3-hour lectures: Change your thoughts to improve your outcomes, and It's all about saving lives. Both will focus on new products and emerging technologies.

Course: CHANGE YOUR THOUGHTS AND IMPROVE YOUR OUTCOMES

Updated protocols assist us in determining our patient’s specific needs. As we move towards a more collaborative profession, we need to embrace these updates to identify those needs. We are presented with continuous challenges of new advances in products and technology and their use in dentistry and are in need information to determine when and how to add them into our armamentaria. As professionals providing health services, our perception of product use along with protocols needs to be discussed with our team as well as the interdisciplinary referrals we have. The process of care [assessment, diagnosis, treatment planning, implementation, evaluation and documentation] requires a comprehension of protocols, products and treatment options and how they are to be utilized.

1.   Distinguish which new-to-market products should be brought into your practice
2.   Integrate materials and products for a variety of uses in the dental office from infection control, dental hygiene therapy, oral cancer screening, patient communication and instrumentation
3.   Modify diagnosis assistance with the team and rationale for changes in assessment forms and diagnostic tools

Course: It’s all about Saving Lives!

As dental professionals we are able do something unique to help the thousands of individuals in need of our care. As a specific set of healthcare providers treating this unique group, transplant recipients, it is necessary for us to understand their dental care options and oral hygiene needs.
Organ transplantation and donation has increased tremendously over the last 10 years yet there is still an immense need for understanding the processes of donation, transplantation and recipient care.
Participate in a sharing of organ transplantation and donation information; learn about transplant recipients and their need for specialized dental care. This presentation will offer insight about the ‘how to’s’ of not only dental care for organ recipients but also communication with their families. We will also share insight on how to be a donor; understand that process and how to aid in sharing the message with your patients and colleagues on how to ~ Save Lives!
Sharing life’s experiences is a fabulous way to learn!

1.   Recognize the need for specialized care for transplant recipients
2.   Develop protocols for patient’s dental needs based on medications and oral complications
3.   Appreciate and understand organ donation processes
4.   Communicate with patients and family to share the need for registration

Upon completion of this seminar, participants should be able to:
1. Participants will be able to distinguish which new-to-market products should be brought into your practice.
2. Participants will be able to integrate materials and products for a variety of uses in the dental office from infection control, dental hygiene therapy, oral cancer screening, patient communication and instrumentation.
3. Participants will be able to modify diagnosis assistance with the team and rationale for changes in assessment forms and diagnostic tools.

Tricia Osuana — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at tricia.osuana@ihs.gov.

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

Participants should be from the Oklahoma City Area [OCA].

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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.