Continuing Education
Downloadable Self-Study Courses
The maker of LISTERINE® and REACH® Products is committed to providing dental professionals with continuing education opportunities. The following downloadable, self-study continuing education courses are presented by The Academy of Dental Therapeutics and Stomatology.
- These courses were written for dentists, dental hygienists, and dental assistants (If you are a student you cannot earn credits, however you can review the courses to help stay at the forefront of dental education and supplement your current curriculum)
- Each course is worth 4 continuing education units
- To obtain dental continuing education credits:
- Download selected continuing education course
- Review and complete coursework
- Complete answer sheets in either pen or pencil
- Mail in answer sheet to address included in the downloadable file
Course 1: Compliance and Your Patients
Written by Mahtab Partovi, DDS
Upon completion of this course, the clinician will be able to:
- Understand what influences patient compliance
- Improve patient assessments to better plan a suitable course of treatment
- Educate patients in an organized and clean manner
- Understand the role of nutrition and hygiene protocols and their effect on patient compliance
Course 2: Scaling and Root Planing: Case Acceptance and Practice Building
Written by Fiona M. Collins, BDS, MBA, MA
Upon completion of this course, the clinician will be able to:
- Comprehend scaling and root planing rationale
- Understand the barriers to treatment that the clinician may face when trying to achieve case acceptance in treating periodontitis
- Understand the role of locally applied anesthetics when performing scaling and root planing
- Understand and assess the implications of scaling and root planing and how these procedures impact the clinician's practice, including productivity and cost factors
Course 3: Informed Consent
Written by Jay Baxley, DDS
Upon completion of this course, the clinician will be able to:
- Explain the difference between "consent" and "informed consent"
- Explain the importance of informed consent in today's dental records
- Understand how to decide which scenarios require informed consent
- Explain which members of the dental team are qualified to obtain informed consent
- Explain the difference between "informed consent" and "informed refusal" and understand under what circumstances each should be used
- Understand under what conditions automated education systems can help in the informed consent process
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