2026 Catalog: All Courses

This training will provide dentists, dental hygienists, and dental health aide therapists with the results to the 2024-2025 survey on 1-5 year-olds.

Starting in 2010, the Indian Health Service began annual oral health surveillance that have helped highlight disparities in dental disease among the AI/AN population and have helped show improvement in certain age groups [1-5 and 6-9 year-olds]. Many participating IHS, tribal, and urban clinics have used these reports and their local data to better prioritize care in their clinics or apply for additional funding from internal and external sources.

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
1.    Identify one key finding from the 2024-2025 IHS Oral Health Data Brief [1-5-year-olds]
2.    Recognize that dental sealants on primary molars are an underutilized preventive service.
3.    Apply evidence-based prevention strategies to address early childhood caries [ECC].

Nathan Mork — Personal Description / Biography not available. For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at nathan.mork@ihs.gov.

Kathy Phipps — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at kathyphipps1234@gmail.com.

David Burke — For follow-up questions, please contact the speaker at david.burke@cskthealth.org.

The speaker has no conflicts of interest to report.

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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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.