Free CE courses
Procter & Gamble is proud to make available over 50 CE courses. All CE courses are completely online and are FREE of charge. Courses may be sorted by topic, date online, course title, or credit hours. You can access all of these courses using your dentalcare.com user name and password.
The new courses include:
Orthodontics: A Review
Calogero Dolce, DDS, PhD
Continuing Education Units: 1 hour
Date Course Online: 12/12/2005
This continuing education course is intended for the general dentist, dental hygienist and dental assistant. Orthodontics, the first specialty in dentistry, emphasizes proper occlusion and tooth alignment as well as ideal dental and facial esthetics. The American Association of Orthodontists estimates that three-quarters of the US population could benefit from orthodontic care, so it's important for dental professionals to understand the basic elements of orthodontics. This course reviews the need for orthodontic treatment, diagnostic procedures and records, biological factors affecting tooth movement, goals of orthodontic treatment, categories of treatment, popular orthodontic devices and oral hygiene considerations.
Dental Implants and Esthetics
Charles J. Goodacre, DDS, MSD
Continuing Education Units: 1 hour
Date Course Online: 12/12/2005
This continuing education course is intended for general dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants. Dental implants offer patients a means to replace one tooth or multiple teeth in a way that meets functional and esthetic needs. This course reviews various categories of esthetic complications, including: environmental morphology; surgical and soft tissue healing protocol; implant location; crown/prosthesis form and type of abutment; facial esthetics; and prosthesis discoloration.
Pre-Solid Organ Transplant Dental Protocol for the Hemodialysis and Peritoneal Dialysis Patient
Cheryl A. Thomas, RDH
Continuing Education Units: 4 hours
Date Course Online: 12/12/2005
This continuing education course is intended for general dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants. This course will teach dental professionals how to treat pre-transplant patients. Experts in transplantation predict that by 2010, one in ten people will be in need of a lifesaving organ transplant. Consequently, the dental healthcare professional will be called upon to participate in the preparatory role designed to meet the needs of the pre-transplant recipient.
Effective Adult Learning for Oral Health Education
Linda D. Boyd, RDH, RD, EdD
Continuing Education Units: 1 hour
Date Course Online: 12/12/2005
This continuing education course is intended for general dentists, dental hygienists and dental assistants. The purpose of this course is to provide dental practitioners with strategies to effectively educate their adult patients in order to prevent and/or manage dental disease. An overview of adult education principles as well as practical strategies for educating adult learners in the dental setting will be provided.
Other courses
Connecticut, Stratford Dental Hygiene Refresher Program
January 20-22, 2006
Professional Learning Services, LLC
Contact: Joyce Turcotte @ (203) 261- 2857
email: [email protected]
Visit our website: www.pls.org for all course descriptions and location details.
Professional Dental Assisting
Indiana, Indianapolis
May 11-13, 2006
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Massachusetts, Boston Yankee Dental Congress
January 25-29
www.yankeedental.com
Nevada, Las Vegas Under One Roof
July 26-28,2006
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