Alaska Dental Continuing Ed Courses
NEW! All Dental is now the low price of $8 per credit Hour
PACKAGES HOURS COST
Dentistry - 548/549 Sedation In Dentistry 1 & 2 24.0 $150.00
Dentistry - 553/554 Innovations in Modern Endodontics 1 & 2 24.0 $150.00
COURSE TITLE
Alternative Medicine: A Guide to Patient Counseling
Antimicrobials in Dentistry
Beyond Anthrax: Bioterrorism & the Health Professions
Cardiovascular Screening in Dental Offices
Care & Maintenance of Dental Implants
Chemical Dependency in Health Care
Clinical Classification of Toothaches
Dental Local Anesthesia
Dental Local Anesthesia. (Exam Only)
Dental Management of Common Medical Conditions
Dentistry & Street Drugs (Exam Only)
Dentistry & Street Drugs
Diabetes Mellitus
Domestic Violence
HIV & the AIDS Epidemic
HIV / AIDS & Public Health Issues
HIV/ AIDS Review
Infection Control in Dental Offices
Instrument Recycling for Infection Control
Local Anesthetics
Medical Emergencies and CPR* in the Dental Office
Medical Emergencies and CPR* in the Dental Office. (Exam Only)
Medical Errors
Medical History to Prevent Anaphylaxis
Miscellaneous Charges
Myofascial Pain & the TMJ
Nutrition & Health
Nutritional Counseling
Oral Histology
Orofacial Disease Update
Osteoporosis: Prevention, Management, and Screening
Using Dental X-Rays E-Book
Over-the-Counter Medications
Personnel & Property Loss in Risk Management
Pharmacology for Dentistry. (Exam Only)
Problem Solving in Endodontics
Problem Solving in Endodontics. (Exam Only)
Provisional Restorations: Key to Clinical Success
Sedation in Dentistry I
Sedation in Dentistry I. (Exam Only)
Sedation in Dentistry II
Sedation in Dentistry II. (Exam Only)
Simplified Oral Anatomy
The Hidden World of Chemosensation: Taste, Smell, & Flavor in Health
TMJ
Tooth Bleaching
Tuberculosis
Ultrasonics in Periodontal Therapy
Understanding Oral Electrosurgery/ Radiosurgery: A Practical Approach
Viral Hepatitis: Managing Occupational Exposure
........... PLUS other courses and extra exams on main page
ALASKA REQUIREMENTS:
Dentists: 28 CE hours (14 hours can be taken online or through correspondence) – due by 12/31 on even-numbered years (ex. 2008).
Dental Hygienists: 14 CE hours (7 can be taken online or through correspondence) – due by 12/13 on odd-numbered years (ex. 2009)
Sample Courses:
Antimicrobials in Dentistry
This course has been reviewed and approved for 8 hour.
Ernest Lado DDS, Matthew J. Dennis, DDS.
This course reviews the development of antimicrobials and their place in dentistry. The goal is to enable you to select appropriate antibiotics in terms of potency against oral pathogens and to balance that potency against possible toxicity and hypersensitivity reactions. You'll learn to classify antibiotics according to their effect on target pathogens and range of activity so that you will quickly bring odontogenic infections under control. Refresh your knowledge of penicillin and the best alternatives when penicillin cannot be prescribed. Be prepared to recognize when antifungal agents are required. Finally, you'll be prepared to manage patients who need antibiotic prophylaxis for endocarditis and those who are taking antibiotics prescribed for medical conditions. The world of microbes can affect dental treatment. After taking this course, you can be confident in your ability to conquer that world.
Cardiovascular Screening in Dental Offices
This course has been reviewed and approved for 12 hour.
Thomas B Fast, DDS, MS.
If you have no patients with Cardiovascular disease, you aren't asking the right questions. Do abbreviations like VSD, TPA, S1, and AED leave you scratching your head? Do you feel uneasy about your knowledge of cardiovascular disease? You are not alone! The purpose of this course is to provide you with a better understanding of cardiovascular diseases and facilitate better communication among the health professions. It condenses and enhances what you learned in school and brings you up-to-date in this important subject, so that you can screen patients for cardiovascular disease, and obtain appropriate consultation where indicated. This course is replete with illustrations to help visualize the content. The subject has ramifications not only for our patients but also for ourselves and our families. Enjoy updating yourself on the medical aspects of dentistry.
Clinical Classification of Toothaches
This course has been reviewed and approved for 8 hours.
Ernest Lado, DDS.
Even when they are not his own, toothaches can be a dentist’s most vexing and challenging problems. They come unexpectedly, often needing immediate attention, invariably on a day when you’re already running behind schedule. When a patient calls complaining his tooth hurts, you and your staff need to render initial and efficient assessment over the phone and schedule treatment appropriately. Your reputation is at stake. A patient in pain that is poorly attended to is a public relations nightmare. When a patient does come in, you need to treat him quickly and effectively. He needs to get out of pain and out of your office as fast as possible.
This course gives you and your staff everything needed to deal with a problem that can be more of a pain in the neck for you than a pain in the mouth for your patient, and does so in using clear and concise language. It first discusses proper classification of toothaches based on the presenting clinical signs and symptoms. It then covers the dynamics of pulpal-periapical processes, radiographic evidence of pathological pulpal-periapical conditions, pulpal conditions that are caused by a progression of pulp disease.
After reviewing the various tests that help provide a diagnosis of the problem, you will be able to practice your skills by trying your hand at solving a few clinical cases. One of our most popular courses for dentists, we think you’ll like it.
Beyond Anthrax: Bioterrorism & the Health Professions
This course will take you beyond the 2001 anthrax attacks to delve into the murky world of bioterrorism. You will learn which bioagents are expected to join anthrax as weapons that could threaten our public health system and spread panic. You will understand the transmission and characteristics of infectious disease caused most likely agents of terrorism, from Arenaviridae to Yersinia pestis. Implement disease control strategies in your office. Calm patient fears by suggesting tactics that will enable them to provide their own safety measures.
Dental Local Anesthesia
All time best course on how to practice safe and effective Local Anesthesia in Dentistry. Practical updated text with latest advances in science, technology and pain control techniques, reflecting new drugs and devices. From basic concepts to specific injection techniques, proper care of equipment, including Armamentarium needed for Local Anesthesia Delivery. Text included: Handbook of Local Anesthesia, 5th Edition, By Stanley F. Malamed, D.D.S.
HIV / AIDS & Public Health Issues
Frank W Stout, DDS, MS & Siegfried Schmidt, MD, PhD.
This course does exactly what it says, that is, it updates our information on the immunology and pathogenesis of HIV/AIDS. It is in part, a synopsis of material presented in the 4 hour AIDS course offered by Home Study Educators.
The course covers the mandatory objectives required for license renewal: epidemiology, prevention, transmission and signs and symptoms. The rise in the incidence of gonorrhea after a drop in the 1980’s raises concern that AIDS (after a significant drop) may be increasing. The CDC now recommends screening HIV-positive patients for tuberculosis and syphilis which have the potential to spread to the immunocompetent population.
Combination antiretroviral therapy is the standard of care at this time, though varying approaches to initiating therapy are suggested. This recent introduction of combination therapy has led to a significant decrease in AIDS deaths in the late 1990’s. Health professionals can now offer patients real hope in inhibiting immune destruction until a cure is found.
A detailed appendix follows the text, listing AIDS associated diseases, drugs and their interactions, recommendations for antiretroviral combination therapy, and prophylaxis for heath care workers who are exposed occupationally. The appendix is designed to be used as a ready reference when decisions concerning AIDS must be made in clinical situations.
Pharmacology for Dentistry
This 2005 drug reference book is one of our most popular courses. Based on a compact up-to-date pharmacology reference for the dental practitioner, the dentist will become familiar with basic drug data, side effects and drug interactions of concern to dentistry. Also included is the importance of dental consideration for treatment and patient/family teaching. A handy textbook with essential and practical information needed on a daily basis. Text included: Mosby's Dental Drug Reference, 6th Edition by Tommy W. Gage, RPh, DDS, PhD and Frieda Atherton Pickett, RHD, MS.
TMJ
Jerome Bistritz, DDS
With expanding knowledge drastically changing the clinical approach to myofascial pain and temporomandibular joint dysfunction, decision-making must be based on a thorough knowledge of the joint and of all the factors that go into causing chronic pain. The pain felt by TMJ patients can have both physical and psychological origins, and diagnosis and therapy must be based on a complete investigation of all contributing factors. Most patients can be helped without invasive, irreversible therapy.
This illustrated workbook offers a review of the anatomy and physiology of the TMJ, explores contributing factors to myofascial pain, presents a diagnostic paradigm, and provides you with some noninvasive, reversible techniques to help the patient. You will learn to test hyperactive muscles by placing pressure on trigger points. Your patients can be taught simple exercises that will help them relieve pain and stress in the joint. The satisfaction of restoring function to patients who have bounced from one office to another attempting to find relief will bring you great personal pleasure.
This illustrated workbook offers a review of the anatomy and physiology of the TMJ, explores contributing factors to myofascial pain, presents a diagnostic paradigm, and provides you with some noninvasive, reversible techniques to help the patient. You will learn to test hyperactive muscles by placing pressure on trigger points. Your patients can be taught simple exercises that will help them relieve pain and stress in the joint. The satisfaction of restoring function to patients who have bounced from one office to another attempting to find relief will bring you great personal pleasure.
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Alaska requirements
28 CE hours every 2 years for Dentist and Dental Hygienist
For more information and course descriptions of these courses click here.
We also offer demos of all the courses
Health Care Services
State of Alaska Health & Social Services
New Adult Dental Services
On March 29, 2007, Alaska’s Medicaid for adults began covering $1,150 worth of preventive dental care, such as exams and cleanings, each year for Alaskans 21 and older who receive Medicaid services.
New services also include fillings, root canals and dentures.
In the past, adult dental Medicaid only treated emergency pain relief and acute infection.
For a full list of new services in the state regulations passed last year authorizing the changes, click here.
The limited amount of preventive and restorative coverage, as well as limited access to dentists who accept Medicaid patients, means patients will need to plan carefully with their dentists what to do first, and when it can be scheduled;
keep their appointments.
Missed appointments are a primary complaint among dentists. The state recently clarified that when dentists charge patients for missed appointments, that policy includes Medicaid patients. Medicaid will not cover the cost of missed appointments.
For help finding a dentist who takes new Medicaid patients, call the recipient helpline: 1-800-780-9972.
Funding
The state investment of $1.3 million in general funds is being matched with federal funds and $1.425 million a year from the Mental Health Trust Authority, for a total annual cost of $10.2 million, an eight-fold return on state general fund dollars.
The coverage expansion was added because infections in the mouth are no different than infections in other parts of the body. Dental infections cause pain, lost time at work and missing teeth can affect employability. Waiting for dental emergencies often results in more expensive dental care and limits the dentist’s ability to address dental problems that will result in future dental emergencies.
Questions:
Recipient helpline: 1 (800) 780-9972
States Served:
FTC to impose Red Flag Rule come this May Day!
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is sticking to its guns and intends to impose its Red Flag Rule on dentistry come May 1, 2009.
UPDATE: DELAYED UNTIL AUGUST 1, 2009
What is a Red Flag Rule? And why do you care?
It is an FTC regulation designed to deal with identity theft.
The ADA estimates that it will cost the average dentist at least $600 to implement the most basic of compliance. Nationally the ADA is predicting that dentistry will spend (and then pass on to patients in the form of higher fees) $79 million. (A pittance in this age of trillion dollar bailouts and billion dollar Wall Street executive bonuses, but still a very unhealthy and unjustified spike in oral healthcare costs.)
When does it apply to you? When you offer patients credit. You say you don’t. You’re not thinking like an FTC regulator.
If you offer credit to your patients the FTC says that you must comply with its Red Flag Rule in order to protect your patients, to whom you are offering credit, from the potential theft of critical personal identifying information that could contribute to identity theft. The theory is that the rule will raise red flags that will identify where and when there is the potential of identity theft taking place or that identity theft is in fact taking place.
What does the FTC mean by offering “credit” to patients? Well if you:
1) send a bill to a patient for services;
2) agree with a patient on an installment type payment plan;
3) arrange for a patient to obtain credit to pay for treatment thru a financing plan such as CareCredit; or
4) accept insurance were the patient is ultimately responsible for payment.
It appears that the FTC has decided that the only way you can avoid being defined as a creditor by the FTC is to require payment (in full) at the time your services are provided.
The ADA has been working diligently, along with other healthcare provider organizations to convince the FTC that it is a bad idea to impose its Red Flag rule on dentists and physicians. It had limited success, when it was able to get the Bush Administration to postpone implementation from last November 1, 2008 to May Day, 2009. However, the Obama Administration has decided that it is time to fish and they are not going to cut bait and let healthcare providers off the compliance hook.
In early March the ADA legal staff and ADA President Dr. John Findley got on the phone with FTC lawyers and regulators and such and tried to convince them that it was going to cost much more that would likely be saved to impose compliance on dentistry.
The FTC bureaucrats said that they intended to be “very flexible” with their imposition and were busy working on written guidance for what they called “low risk” environments into which they conceded that most (not all) dental offices are likely to fall. Asked when these low risk guidelines would be available the ADA got a very bureaucratic “hopefully soon.”
ADS members will be receiving an e-mail message that contains a more comprehensive discussion of the FTC’s Red Flay Rule and steps that can be taken to develop an office plan, which hopefully will suffice in what is expected to be an increasingly pro regulatory mind set in Washington DC.
Members may also call the ADS office (907-563-3003 or 800-478-4675) for more information and to have these materials faxed or mailed, should you not have the ability to download them from the e-mail message.
Alaska dental continuing ed classes for dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants- dental implants,dental osha compliance, endodontics,tooth bleaching,periodontal classes, dental anesthesia, dental pharmacology
Alaska dental continuing ed classes for dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants- dental implants,dental osha compliance, endodontics,tooth bleaching,periodontal classes, dental anesthesia, dental pharmacology
