ADA 2018 Annual Meeting

Safe, effective treatment of acute postoperative pain is essential for patient satisfaction and a successful dental practice. This course will review how, beyond providing a prescription for an opioid-containing analgesic, several strategies are now accepted to improve acute postoperative pain management, including using peripherally acting analgesics and steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs preoperatively and intraoperatively and administration of long-acting local anesthetics to delay pain onset.

Reviewed in 2023

PHARM23

DRUGCE23

This course, mandated by many states for all licensed dental practitioners, covers ethical issues in dental practice, including boundary issues, fiduciary duty, the patient’s best interest, scope of practice, overdiagnosis, overtreatment, impaired practitioners, unjustifiable and justifiable criticism, negligence, insurance fraud, patient records, and confidentiality.

After this course, you will be able to:

• Recognize the scope of current ethical issues in dental practice
• Avoid or prevent clinical ethical problems
• Educate associates and staff to resolve clinical ethical issues

Reviewed in 2023

360CE