Pennsylvania Dental CEU Package 15-Hours
Included Courses
Courses included in this package. Click on a course to learn more.
- Caries-Prone Patients: Prevention, Assessment, and Interventions, 3rd Edition 4
Course release date: 7/1/2024
Course Overview
The impact of nutrition on the caries process is known in the dental field, but dental professionals need to continue to convey the importance of this relationship to patients. Working as partners with patients, dental professionals can aid in the prevention of dental caries and help maintain patients’ overall health by offering nutritional counseling and behavior modification techniques. Parents must be educated about the unique oral health needs of children and adolescents and the importance of establishing optimal oral hygiene habits at an early age. The incidence of caries in the United States could decrease significantly as dental professionals implement the advances available for early caries detection, recommend anti-caries treatments, and offer nutritional analysis and counseling. It is also essential that dental professionals provide customized oral hygiene regimens and education for their patients. This basic-level course is intended to equip all members of the dental team with the skills needed to realize this overriding goal.
- Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting in Pennsylvania, 2nd edition (Renewal Licensure) 2
Course release date: 4/9/2024
About the course
Child abuse and neglect remains a significant problem for us all in the U.S. as well as in Pennsylvania. Approximately 3.5 million children in the U.S. were the subjects of at least one child abuse or neglect report (United States Department of Health and Human Services [HHS], 2019). In Pennsylvania alone, there were 46,208 reports of suspected child and student abuse in 2017 (HHS, 2019). This course provides the details of the identification, assessment, and reporting of child abuse and reviews Pennsylvania state laws regarding child abuse and neglect.
- Substance Use Disorders and Pain Management: MATE Act Training 8
Course release date: 5/1/2023
Course Overview
Substance use disorders continue to be an important health issue in the United States and can lead to significant problems in all aspects of a person's life. Appropriate assessment and management of substance use is a priority in patient care. In addition, the presence of substance use disorders can complicate the treatment or management of comorbid medical conditions. Given the ongoing prescription opioid (and illicitly manufactured fentanyl) use and overdose epidemic in the United States and the widespread incidence of chronic pain, opioid prescribing and optimum safe pain management is a public health concern. All clinicians should have good knowledge of the available options for substance use disorder treatment and for safe opioid prescribing and dispensing. - The Hypertensive Patient: Classification and Management, 2nd Edition 1
Course Release Date: 4/8/2024
About the Course:
This basic-level course familiarizes dental professionals with hypertension, its types, and its impact on general wellness. The course reviews the pathophysiology of hypertension and describes various nonpharmacologic and pharmacologic treatment options. The most common medications used in the treatment of hypertension will be reviewed as will their impact upon oral health. A firm understanding of this prevalent disease and its implications for treatment in the dental office will help all dental professionals provide the highest quality of care to their dental patients. The most recent diagnostic criteria by which the levels of hypertension are categorized will be discussed.