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Colorado course has the solution for those who hate their dentist or avoid going altogether
The Mile High City is full of mile-high dental haters who like roughly 90 million Americans delay or avoid going to a dentist altogether because of fear, anxiety and unpleasant memories of exams past.
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DOCS Education Kicks Off Second Decade of Public Service
SEATTLE – Many of the nation’s top dental sedation educators and practitioners were in attendance on June 9th when DOCS Education celebrated its 10th Anniversary of serving the oral health needs of the nation and world.
While taking time to look back at all they had achieved since the founding of DOCS Education in June 2000, the speakers and those oral health professionals who traveled to the gala from around the country spent much of the evening high atop Seattle’s iconic Columbia Tower Club looking ahead to a second decade of public service.
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Back To School: Lessons I Learned From Today’s Dental School Students
Teaching sedation dentistry is almost second nature to me by now. I have been training dentists and their team members on the techniques, pharmacology, psychology and safety protocols of oral sedation for a decade.
But recently I had the pleasure of leading a six-hour sedation dentistry overview for actual dental school students. I found the experience, well, educational. The 30 or so dentistry students joined me at the Micro Dental Laboratories classroom complex near Oakland, California. Many of them were seniors completing their undergraduate studies at the Arthur A. Dugoni School of Dentistry at the University of the Pacific and at the University of California at San Francisco’s School of Dentistry.
What I discovered is that since my days nearly three decades ago at the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine not much has changed – and so much has changed!
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Sedation Dentistry Innovator, DOCS Education, Marks 10th Anniversary Transforming Lives
June 8, 2010 -- This week marks a decade since the founding of DOCS Education, the world’s leading educator of sedation dentists and oral health professionals. Read full article |
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Gold Medal Dentistry: Oklahoma Practitioner Selected as National 'Safe Sedation Dentist of the Year'
A veteran dentist from Chickasha, Oklahoma has been named the 2010 National Gold Medal Dentistry award winner for his contributions to the practice of safe sedation dentistry.Read on! |
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A Heart-to-Heart About Oral Health: Recognizing the Dangers of Avoiding the Dentist
By some estimates, more than 90 million Americans still skip all dental visits until they cannot bear the pain, discomfort or unsightliness any longer. Doing so, some medical professionals believe, puts them at risk for more serious health problems.
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Celebrity Cover-Up: Reality Show Contestants Bite Their Lips To Mask Their Flawed Smiles
With the increased popularity of reality television programming, more and more would-be celebrities and athletes are biting their lips and masking their smiles to avoid close ups that expose their dental flaws. But they need no longer restrain their smiles.
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Debunking the 7 Most Common Misconceptions about Safe Sedation Dentistry
Sedation dentists have seen and helped all varieties of dental ‘chickens’ and if fear is your main obstacle to receiving safe dental care, fear not! Properly trained sedation dentists and their staffs have extensive experience calming their patients’ anxieties and making each visit a pleasant experience.
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Nominate Your Favorite Reality TV Contestant for a Pain-Free, Anxiety-Free Smile Makeover
For all those whose smiles limit their “star appeal,” Sedation Dentistry Safety Week has designated Wednesday, March 17th, the first annual “Reality Bites” makeover day. Effective today, fans can nominate their favorite reality television show contestants for a complete, pain-free, anxiety-free smile makeover.
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Dental Safety Time: 2nd Annual Sedation Dentistry Safety Week Begins With Rededication to Patient Safety
Today marks the beginning of Dental Safety Time (DST), also known as the 2nd Annual Sedation Dentistry Safety Week. Each year DST encompasses five days dedicated to ensuring patients that sedation dentistry, a proven and increasingly popular method of receiving most dental care procedures, is not only comfortable and anxiety-free, it is also extraordinarily safe. Read the entire article. |
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2nd Annual Sedation Dentistry Week Hosted by DOCS Education to Coincide with Switch to Daylight Savings Time
The second annual Sedation Dentistry Safety Week, March 15-19, coincides with the switch to daylight savings time when tens of millions of Americans reset their clocks and make the extra effort to check their smoke alarms. Once again this year, more than 10,000 dental professionals will participate in the week-long program aimed at reinforcing their skills in providing for the health and safety of all patients. Read the article |
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New Pediatric Sedation Dentistry CE Program Approved by the Dental Board of California
DOCS Education receives approval from the California Dental Board for its Pediatric course. Read the News!
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Success with Sedation: A Profitability Comparison of Nitrous, Oral, and IV Sedation
Success with Sedation: A Profitability Comparison of Nitrous, Oral, and IV Sedation
Perhaps no other discipline in dentistry has enjoyed as much growth over the last decade as sedation dentistry. Read the entire article.
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