Courses

Nitrous oxide has the potential to be misused and abused by both patient and staff. This half-hour CE course will help you understand and prevent the misuse of this gas. Dr. Anthony Feck will identify the sedatives safety levels, discuss its physiologic and biologic effects, and discuss the NIOSH safety guidelines for this highly safe and beneficial anxiety relieving agent. This course is worth 0.5 hours of CE.

Oral sedation offers tremendous benefits to both patient and providing dentist. In the last two decades, its usage has grown significantly among general dentists. Still, many dentists distrust their ability to administer it properly. In this one hour CE course, Drs. Leslie Fang and Anthony Feck look at multiple complex but commonplace oral sedation cases. They clarify popular misconceptions and reinforce current best practices.

1 CE hour

Nitrous oxide/oxygen sedation is among the oldest and safest pain control measures in dentistry. Explore what we know about the pharmacology of nitrous and how it functions in this insightful presentation led by DOCS Education's Dean of Faculty Dr. Anthony S. Feck.

1 CE hour

Restorative authority Dr. Tony Santorsola teaches you how to expand your treatment planning acumen. Using case studies, he will demonstrate how he has used innovative considerations to restore and predictably stabilize thousands of smiles successfully. He will show you what can go right and wrong, and how best to plan for accepting future tooth loss.

2 CE hours

According to the CDC over 48% of Americans are taking at least one prescription drug.  Understanding how these drugs interact with sedation medications is critical to patient safety . In this course presented by DOCS Education Medical Director, Leslie Fang, MD, PhD, he discusses the mechanism of metabolism of drugs that are metabolized in the liver as well as the intestines.  The critical nature of the CYP450 enzyme system that is responsible for the metabolism of many drugs is broken down to help you recognize how drugs, including those used for sedation, work together and against each other.  This online course is worth 1 CE. 

In this presentation, Dr. Leslie Fang expounds on the new guidelines for the use of antibiotics in dentistry. One might think that in treating odontogenic infection, the key question is the potential for microbial resistance, but the treatment goals for the use of adjunctive antibiotics is—first and foremost—to improve debridement results and then, secondly, to prevent spreading infection. This course is worth 1.5 CE.

Dentists are the third-highest prescribers of antibiotics in all outpatient settings in the United States, and the ADA Council on Scientific Affairs has created new antibiotic guidelines.

The new Guidelines focus on localized infection, with a little time on spreading infections. They were predicated on a multidisciplinary evaluation of the risk-benefit ratio of antibiotics and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines on antibiotic use for the urgent management of pulpal- and periapical-related dental pain and intraoral swelling.

Dr. Fang helps you understand and put them into practice. This is now included in the Full Ultimate Companion Series course.

This course is worth 1 CE.