Description

Dental Management of [Medically] Complex Patients 

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Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. designates this activity for 6.0 ADA continuing education credits. 

Date:  November 8, 2024

Time: 8:30am-4:00pm

Location:  Virtual

Enhance your dental practice with our specialized course, designed for professionals managing patients with complex medical histories and special health care needs. As chronic diseases and an aging population rise, effective collaboration between dentists and physicians is crucial. This course equips you with the skills to provide safe, effective dental care tailored to patients' unique medical conditions.

Discover how to assess medical histories, understand the dental implications of various conditions and medications, and stay updated on antibiotic guidelines. Learn to communicate effectively with medical teams, manage treatment complications, and adapt care for patients with special needs. Elevate your practice and improve patient outcomes—enroll today!

Course Descriptions and Learning Objectives 

Dental care and dental treatment are paramount to health. However, the provision of routine dental care can become quite complicated for patients with medical comorbidities and special health care needs, with increasing consideration the more complex the patient’s medical history. The increasing prevalence of chronic diseases such as diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease, and chronic infectious diseases, to name a few, has necessitated increased communication of dentists with physicians, as well as increased medical involvement by the dentist. The aging population, as well as growing population of patients with special needs (intellectual and developmental disabilities) has contributed to the increased medical management of patients for dental care.

Many medications for these diseases also carry significant dental implications. Appropriate and routine oral and dental care contributes to improved health outcomes, but this care must be rendered in a manner that is safe and attentive to patients’ systemic health concerns. Such considerations include necessity for antibiotic prophylaxis, pre-procedural lab value verification, evaluation for patient optimization, and reduction of post procedural complications. Patients may also require modifications to medication regimens. We will discuss the implications of certain conditions and medications on dental management and treatment, potential concerns and complications from these dental treatments, and methods to reduce these complications

Learning Objectives:

• Critically assess a patient’s medical history and assess need for further evaluation or information.
• Describe the implication of several common medical diagnoses on patients’ physiology and function.
• Explain the oral and dental implication and effect of several common medical diagnoses.
• Identify current clinical guidelines for antibiotic prophylaxis and antibiotic prescribing for dental patients and dental conditions.
• Describe how to communicate with the medical team to optimize a patient for dental treatment.
• Identify and avoid dental treatment complications by better understanding a patient’s medical history.
• List ways to manage patients who have difficulty tolerating dental treatment
• List modifications and accommodations that can be made to provide appropriate and clinically sound care for complex patients

Speaker Bio - Sydnee Chavis, DMD

Sydnee Chavis, DMD is a clinical assistant professor at the University of Maryland School of Dentistry in the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a focus on special care, geriatrics, and the dental management of medically complex and medically compromised patients. She earned her DMD from Harvard School of Dental Medicine, completing her thesis on the management of patients with special healthcare needs, and completed her advanced training at the University of Michigan in hospital dentistry. Her clinical focus is the provision of care for patients with intellectual and developmental disabilities, as well as the dental treatment of patients with significant and severe medical comorbidities. When she is not treating patients, teaching, or pursing research to improve oral health methods of care and outcomes for complex patients, she enjoys stand up comedy, and spending time with her husband, toddler son, and greyhound.

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Accreditation Information -6.0 ADA Continuing Education Credits 

Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. 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. 

Chesapeake Health Education Program, Inc. designates this activity for 6.0 ADA continuing education credits. 

Conflict of Interest Disclosure(s):  All presenters and the Planning Committee report they have no relationships with commercial organizations to disclose.  There will be no discussion of off-label products.

Target Audience: This course is geared towards the following disciplines: Dentists, Dental Assistants, Dental Hygenists, and Dental Office Staff. Targeted audience does not guarantee specific discipline credit; please review the above continuing education section for full CEU listing.

Educational/Teaching Methods Used: Lecture, PowerPoint Presentation, Video, Case Study

Cancellation & Refund Policy:

Cancellations for this course must be made no later than one week prior to the program date, and refunds are subject to a 10% processing fee. No refund option will be available for cancellations made less than one week prior to that program date. No-shore registrants will forfeit any payment made for the program. CHEP does not offer vouchers for cancellations for these conferences.

https://www.chepinc.org/education-credits/virtual-in-person-programs/

CHEP’s Grievance Procedure:  https://www.chepinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Grievance-Procedure-revised-7-27-2018.pdf

Virtual Learning Policy and Procedure:  https://www.chepinc.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/CHEP-Virtual-Learning-Policy-and-Precedure.v421.pdf

Presented by:  Chesapeake Health Education Program (CHEP)

Address:  PO Box 229, Perryville, MD  21903

Questions:

Please contact CHEP at (410) 642-1195 or email us at programs@chepinc.org