This combined 50 hour online and hands-on continuing education course provides a study of anxiety and pain management techniques used in dental care. Components of pain, pain control mechanisms, topical anesthesia, local anesthetics, anesthetic reversal agents, needle placement and techniques for the administration of local anesthesia are included. The participant will practice administering local anesthesia to a partner in a supervised clinical setting.
This continuing education course is designed to fulfill the educational requirement from the Oregon Board of Dentistry (OBD) for local anesthesia endorsement for dental assistants in Oregon. Participants should consult the Oregon Practice Act to fully understand and complete local anesthesia requirements to administer local anesthesia under the general supervision of a licensed dentist. This continuing education course has been approved by the OBD.
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