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Comprehensive Care For Anxious Dental Patients
This course offers a patient-centered perspective on dental anxiety and proposes strategies for enhancing patients’ access to dental healthcare.
Key topics covered will encompass an examination of the terminology employed to delineate varying levels of dental apprehension and the application of behavioral and pharmacological techniques to support patients in completing their dental treatments. Additionally, the course will delve into treatment adjustments aimed at mitigating patients’ procedural fears, identifying the most common dental scenarios causing stress in patients, exploring the origins of dental-related fears, and addressing the adverse effects of stress on dental staff members.
This course will award 3 continuing education hours.
Please see the board approval box for course approvals.Course Objectives
- Explore distinctions between terminology used to characterize various levels of dental anxiety.
- Delve into the array of available tools for assessing dental fear and anxiety.
- Examine prevalent theories regarding the origins of dental apprehension.
- Enumerate prevalent scenarios or instruments that trigger stress responses in dental patients.
- Identify typical verbal and nonverbal cues signaling a patient’s unease during ongoing dental procedures.
- Assess commonly employed behavior modification strategies for managing anxious dental patients.
- Catalog common pharmacological agents employed in the treatment of apprehensive dental patients.
- Scrutinize the role of adaptations in dental treatments aimed at accommodating apprehensive patients’ needs.
- Explore the impact of dental care on anxious patients on the dental staff.
Board Approvals
State Approvals
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Florida Board of DentistryProvider number 50-204-3 -
Florida Board of Dentistry-Dental LaboratoryProvider number 50-204
Information
- Relevance: This course is designed for dental professionals who treat patients who fear dental treatment.
- Content Level: Intermediate
- Course Format: This course is offered as a self-paced distance learning format (reading-based online activity)
- System Requirements: This course is offered online. Internet connection required.
- Course Completion Information: To earn continuing education credit, professionals must register and pay the fee for the course. They must read the content and demonstrate understanding by earning a minimum score of 70 percent on testing materials. The certificate of completion will be able to be downloaded after the above is completed. Refunds will be granted upon request with the withdrawal of credit for the course. For questions, concerns, or to request special accommodations, please call 866-863-4225 or email [email protected].
- CEBroker Course ID: 947917
- Credit Hours: 3
