Nebraska Dental Hygienist CEU Package 10-Hours
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Allergic Reactions to Metals in the Mouth, 3rd Edition 2
Course release date: 4/7/2/25
Course Overview
This basic-level course reviews the importance of metals for human health, identifies common harmful metals and their role in disease, and discusses hypersensitivity reactions, with particular regard to metal allergies in medical and dental patients. Corrosion is also discussed relative to its role in the hypersensitivity reactions experienced by dental patients. Chronic exposure to metal corrosion in the oral environment has been associated with oral manifestations such as bone resorption, oral lesions, oral edema, oral cancer, and extraoral issues such as fatigue, hair loss, and eczematous rashes in individuals who are hypersensitive to metals (Sukumaran et al., 2020; Vrbova et al., 2021). For these reasons, it is imperative that dental professionals understand the different types of metals used in biomaterials, factors that increase dental restorations’ corrosion susceptibility, and corrosion’s potential to increase patient hypersensitivity to metals. Doing so will help dental professionals make better-informed decisions about which biomaterials are the safest and most effective. - Dental Treatment in the Correctional System, 3rd Edition 3
Course Release Date: 10/7/2024
Course Overview
This intermediate-level course will highlight the unique environment within the correctional system and the challenges of providing dental care therein. The more prevalent medical problems that afflict incarcerated individuals, such as hepatitis C and HIV/AIDS, and their impact on oral health and dental treatment will be reviewed as they relate to total patient care. The course will conclude with a discussion of the multiple elements that can preclude access to adequate medical and dental care upon the release of incarcerated individuals back into society.
- Prescription Drug Abuse Among Dental Patients: Scope, Prevention, and Management, 3rd Ed 5
Course Release Date: 1/9/2024
About the Course:
The purpose of this basic-level course is to provide dental practitioners with an appreciation of the scope of the problem of prescription drug abuse and a realization that the misuse and abuse of these drugs likely take place among the patient populations they serve. By becoming familiar with the pharmacology of the most commonly abused drugs, the risk factors for developing addictive behaviors, and the manner in which these medications are commonly acquired, dental providers will be positioned to curb prescribing practices that contribute to this growing problem and will be better able to serve their patients and their communities as informed prevention advocates.