Anxiety Control in Dentistry
Anxiety Control in Dentistry is organized by ADA NSW Centre for Professional Development and will be held on Sep 20, 2024 at Centre For Professional Development, St leonards, New South Wales, Australia.
Description:
Many of our patients are quite anxious about seeking and receiving dental treatment. It may lead to some people avoiding dental care completely until excruciating pain gives them no choice. Dentists should be able to provide alternatives to control a patient’s anxiety and to assist them to receive treatment.
This course will cover a spectrum of anxiety-relieving alternatives. It will give the caring dentist a selection of anxiolytic techniques that can be offered to their patients including psychosedation, oral sedation and nitrous oxide sedation.
Topics include:
• The basics of fear and anxiety in the dental office
• The utilisation of psychosedation techniques
• Review of Basic Life Support
• The utilisation of oral sedation
• Relevant pharmacology, administration and monitoring
• Indications/contraindications
• Managing complications
• The utilisation of nitrous oxide sedation
• Relevant pharmacology, administration and monitoring
• Indications/contraindications
• Managing complications
Learning Objectives:
• Gain an understanding of the key causes of fear and anxiety in our patients
• Understand basic psychosedation techniques and be able to apply them
• Revise Basic Life Support
• Understand pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, advantages/disadvantages, indications/contra-indications of oral sedation and nitrous oxide sedation
• Gain confidence in utilising oral sedation and nitrous oxide sedation
Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.