Why Oral Sedation for the General Dentist?
- Learn to RELAX your patients and ALLEVIATE ANXIETY.
- Enhance local anesthetic to make your patients more comfortable.
- Comfortable patients come back and refer their friends! Oral sedation can be a significant practice builder.
- Upon completion of this course of study, you will be able to safely administer oral sedation learned through DOCS Education.
Learn from the convenience and safety of your own home or office.
- One Day ”on demand” at your leisure.
- 2 Days (Friday/Saturday) interactive streaming
• OCTOBER 6-7, 2023 (Friday/Saturday) with an 8 Hour Online Prerequisite
• Registration: $2,995
Why Oral Sedation is So Important:
- Creates an even higher quality of care for your patients.
- Very few dental schools teach students how to do this.
- Dental anxiety is second only to public speaking anxiety.
- ADA: 18% of adults would visit the dentist more if given anxiety-reducing meds.
- Incremental oral administration protocols have high effectiveness in treating patients with anxiety.
- Generous fee for the service but the real benefit is more dentistry done.
- You can support your patients with PTSD, or who have had past bad experiences, have panic attacks or have difficulty getting numb.
- A service desired and needed by many patients.
Instructors
Dr. Anthony Feck
Dr. Anthony “Tony” Feck is the Dean of Faculty at DOCS Education. An engaging international lecturer, established clinician, author, and educator, Dr. Feck has a well-known teaching and lecturing style blending humor with contagious passion. A former Associate Professor of Periodontics and Restorative Dentistry at the University of Kentucky College of Dentistry, he recently retired from private practice in Lexington, Kentucky. He is also the founder of Sunrise Dental Solutions, a business solutions and consulting firm for dental practices across North America.
Dr. Leslie Fang
A world-renowned physician, educator, businessman, and speaker, Dr. Leslie Shu-Tung Fang received his Ph.D. in Physiology and Biophysics from the University of Illinois and his Doctorate of Medicine from Harvard Medical School. He is board-certified in both Nephrology and Internal Medicine and has been repeatedly honored as one of “America’s Top Doctors” and “The Best Doctors of Boston.” He is also a key teacher at Harvard medical School. At DOCS Education, he is the Medical Director and plays an integral role in the development of the curriculum.
Characteristics of this training:
- Allows local anesthetic to be MORE EFFECTIVE.
- Enables you to DO MORE TREATMENT in the same time.
- Patients benefit from post-treatment AMNESIA.
- You become PROFICIENT.
- Apply with exodontia, endo, restorative, C&B, implants, perio.
- VERY SAFE if you know and follow the rules.
- You’re given a reference sheet on the sedation regulations in YOUR STATE.
- Oral sedation is provided with nitrous oxide/oxygen.
- Taken orally or SUBLINGUALLY (faster).
- Given pre and post-op PATIENT INSTRUCTIONS.
- Learn to administer the rarely needed REVERSAL AGENT.
- Know which patients NOT TO TREAT.
- Extensive training in how to AVOID/TREAT PROBLEMS.
Course Breakdown:
- 25 credit hours over 3 days
- Virtual and interactive with assessments
- 25% online pre-course study
- 70% live-streaming on Friday/Saturday
- 5% online live office hours with DOCS Faculty
- Learn how to integrate oral sedation into your practice.
- This course is a gateway to other more advanced treatments.