Kentucky 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
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Kentucky requirements:
30 CE hours every odd year for Dentist and 30 CE hours for Hygienist every even year. Courses Required for Renewal: 1 CE hour of HIV/AIDS Review. 1 CE hour of Infection Control.
For more information and course descriptions of these courses click here.
We also offer demos of all the courses
KENTUCKY REQUIREMENTS:
Dentists: 30 CE hours (10 hours can be taken online or through correspondence) – Required courses are: 1 hour of Infection Control and 1 hour of HIV/AIDS. Due every two years on 12/1 on odd numbered years (ex. 2007).
Dental Hygienists: 30 CE hours (10 hours can be taken online or through correspondence) – Required courses are: 1 hour of Infection Control and 1 hour of HIV/AIDS. Due every two years on 12/1 on even-numbered years (ex. 2008).
OSHA Compliance and Infection Control
This course has been reviewed and approved for 10 hours.
Ernest Lado, DDS & Frank W Stout, DDS, MS.
Everyday, your profession puts you in an environment in which you may be exposed to a number of infectious organisms, including the cytomegalovirus, hepatitis B and C, herpes simplex, HIV, M. tuberculosis, staphylococci, streptococci, and many more, too numerous to name. Transmission of infection in a health care facility can occur following direct contact with contaminated body fluids or tissues and through indirect contact via contaminated instruments or equipment. Transmission can also follow the inhalation of infectious organisms in droplets or aerosols produced by oral and respiratory fluids.
The risk of exposure to these infectious organisms can be significantly reduced by properly following OSHA protocol. This course gives you everything you need to know how to keep an infectious organism-free office. It discusses training, record maintenance, occupational risk, proper housekeeping, pathways of disease transmission, post exposure evaluation and follow-up, exposure categories, vaccination, universal precautions, and OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogen Standard. It includes a protocol manual that you can personalize for your office.
Satisfies multi-state legislative requirements.
HIV/Aids Review
This course has been reviewed and approved for 1 hour.
Carroll Cameron, RDH, EdD, Siegfried Schmidt, MD,PhD.
Some states have a mandatory one (1) hour requirement in AIDS continuing education for license renewal. This course is designed to meet the needs of licensees in those states. It covers the mandatory objectives with emphasis on new developments in medical, societal, and epidemiological approaches to the disease.
If you want to stay current but don't need to review basic material on AIDS, this course is for you, especially if your state requires only one hour for license renewal. The course will help you implement infection control procedures in your office, meet your legal and ethical responsibilities towards HIV-positive patients, and educate the public. The abbreviated appendix includes protocol for occupational exposure and recommendations for AIDS patients coinfected with tuberculosis.
If it has been several years since you took a course on AIDS, you might want to try HSE's two or four hour courses. However, if you have had to take AIDS courses every licensing period and are only required to take one hour, try your hand at our HIV/AIDS Review. It may be just what you need.
Care and Maintenance of Dental Implants
Keith Rossein, DDS.
Approximately 28 million Americans are without teeth. On average, Americans 45 to 75 have only half their teeth, and 75 million Americans are missing 2 to 3 teeth. These statistics are not pretty. Given the 90% success rate of implants, their greater stability, comfort, and ability to inhibit the process of bone resorption, dental implants have become one our best options for patients wanting a healthy, attractive smile.
This course helps prepare you to provide service to implant patients by enhancing home care and office maintenance. Among the issues it covers are the gingival, connective tissue and bone relationships to dental implants, causative factors of peri-implantitis, factors for long-term clinical success, maintenance protocol, procedures for assessing implant health, and oral hygiene products and home care techniques for implant patients.
Viral Hepatitis: Managing Occupational Exposure
This course has been reviewed and approved for 4 hours.
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Viral hepatitis is transmitted enterically and parenterally by a group of related pathogens. Hepatitis A, B, C, D, and E have been extensively studied, but many questions remain about the clinical implications of F and G. Regardless of the remaining questions, the viruses that cause inflammatory liver disease pose a potential threat to health care workers. This course will help you meet CDC recommendations concerning occupational exposure to hepatitis and develop plans addressing counseling, management, and therapy for exposed workers.
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.
Sample Courses
Care & Maintenance of Dental Implants
This course has been reviewed and approved for 3 hours.
Keith Rossein, DDS.
Approximately 28 million Americans are without teeth. On average, Americans 45 to 75 have only half their teeth, and 75 million Americans are missing 2 to 3 teeth. These statistics are not pretty. Given the 90% success rate of implants, their greater stability, comfort, and ability to inhibit the process of bone resorption, dental implants have become one our best options for patients wanting a healthy, attractive smile.
This course helps prepare you to provide service to implant patients by enhancing home care and office maintenance. Among the issues it covers are the gingival, connective tissue and bone relationships to dental implants, causative factors of peri-implantitis, factors for long-term clinical success, maintenance protocol, procedures for assessing implant health, and oral hygiene products and home care techniques for implant patients.
Chemical Dependency in Health Care
This course has been reviewed and approved for 3 hour.
Ernest Lado, DDS; Carroll Cameron, RDH, EdD; Siegfried Schmidt, MD, PhD.
In order to provide appropriate standards of care, health professionals should be familiar with objective signs and symptoms of chemical dependency, understand the impact of chemical dependency on patient management, and be familiar with the social and legal consequences that result from inappropriate use of mind-altering substances. This program is designed to provide you with that information so you can take appropriate steps to help both patients and coworkers who are abusing mind-altering substances.
States Served:
Board of Dentistry
Kentucky Dentists and Prescription Alteration
Press Release Date: Wednesday, May 06, 2009
The Louisville Metro Police Department has recently asked area dentists for their help in cases involving prescription alteration. By simply placing a copy of any prescription for a controlled substance in their patients charts, dentists are able to provide evidence of the original prescription when patients are suspected of altering their prescription.
If police are unable to obtain a copy of the original prescription or verify the original through thorough chart notes, they will not be able to make an arrest. If you have further questions or wish to report suspicious activity, please contact Sergeant Stanley Salyards of the Louisville Metro Police at 502-574-8617 or the appropriate authorities in your area.
Association expands online H1N1 flu virus resources
Posted May 7, 2009
By Jennifer Garvin
As part of its outreach effort on the ongoing outbreak of the H1N1 influenza virus infection (swine flu), the ADA has created a dental specific fact page for dentists and dental team members.
Visit www.ada.org/prof/resources/topics/swine_flu_faq.asp for up-to-date-information, including the most frequently asked questions about H1N1.
The ADA also has a topic page at www.ada.org/goto/h1n1.
In addition to answering questions relating to patients who have flu-like symptoms, the page also contains links to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention new guidelines for infection control in dental settings at www.cdc.gov/oralhealth/infectioncontrol/index.htm as well as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's new tips for health providers in preparing for a pandemic.
OSHA's Frequently Asked Questions on Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Guidance for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare Employers contains general information about OSHA's Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and Response Guidance for Healthcare Workers and Healthcare Employers (OSHA Publication 3328) and may be accessed at www.osha.gov/dsg/topics/pandemicflu/index.html .
Dentists seeking additional information concerning conditions by locality can get updated information about H1N1 by checking with their state and local health agency Web sites.
H1N1 flu is caused by type A strains of the influenza virus that are spread by exposure to coughing and sneezing from infected persons. As of May 7, there were 896 cases in 41 states in the United States.
Symptoms include fever greater than 100 degrees, chills, head and body aches, fatigue, cough, stuffy nose, sore throat, and nausea and vomiting. In some cases, the CDC is reporting resulting cases of pneumonia or respiratory illness.
Dentists may also call the ADA Division of Dental Practice at the toll-free number, Ext. 2622.
To follow the latest updates from the CDC, visit www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/investigation.htm .
HIV/AIDS Course 10 year due date
Kentucky licensed dentists and dental hygienists are required under 201 KAR 8:140 to take a Cabinet for Health and Family Services approved HIV/AIDS course every ten years. The Board adopted the standard from the 1999 Kentucky General Assembly modified requirements for HIV/AIDS educational courses to be completed by health care workers under KRS Chapter 214.610. As a result, the first HIV/AIDS course renewals will be due in 2009.
Please note that if you are required to re-take the HIV/AIDS course in 2009, you must complete the approved course by December 31, 2009. Once you have completed an approved HIV/AIDS course, please mail the Certificate of Attendance along with your Kentucky License number to:
Kentucky Board of Dentistry
Attention: Sylvester Gurnell
312 Whittington Parkway, Suite 101
Louisville, KY 40222
For notification purposes only,
we have included the year dental hygienists are required to renew their HIV/AIDS course certification on the Continuing Education page of the online renewal form. It is also included on the final edit page of the online renewal form. Dental hygienists do not need to send any C.E. documentation to Board office in order to complete the online renewal
Kentucky dental continuing ed classes for dentists, dentalhygienists and dental assistants dental implants,dental osha compliance, endodontics,tooth bleaching,periodontal classes, dental anesthesia, dental pharmacology
Kentucky 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
