2018 Catalog: General Courses

This course is open only to newer dentists [new to the IHS/Tribal system] in the Alaska Area IHS.

The purpose of Challenges course is to provide new dentists and providers practicing in the Alaska Indian Health Services didactic and hands-on training in pediatric dentistry, oral surgery, endodontics, and advanced general dental topics.

Upon completion of this course, participants should be able to:

1. Identify appropriate behavior guidance and comprehensive pediatric dental treatment planning techniques;
2. Discuss signs and symptoms of oral facial infections and recognize oral facial trauma, apply suturing techniques; and
3. Apply endodontic treatment techniques, understand full thickness flap design, and extraction complications.

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

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

Abby DeBonis — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at ADeBonis@SouthcentralFoundation.com.

Maria Heidi Sipin — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at msipin@searhc.org.

JANE BLEUEL — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at jableuel@scf.cc.

Kashif Bhatti — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at Kashif.Bhatti@ihs.gov.

Bridget Willet — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at bwillet@southcentralfoundation.com.

Phillip Woods — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at phillip.woods@fda.hhs.gov.

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

Nhi Huynh — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at nhuynh@scf.cc.

Antonio Parameswaran — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at aparameswaran@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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There is no tuition for this course as it is sponsored by the Alaska Area.

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.