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Tele-seminars
Tele-seminars are a great way to earn CE credits from the comfort of your home, by listening to a live lecture over the phone.
Tele-seminars are held monthly on weekday evenings from September to June. Registration opens a few weeks before the scheduled date. For upcoming tele-seminars, please click HOME at the absolute top of the page.
How Tele-seminars Work: After you register for a tele-seminar, you automatically receive an email that includes a phone number and special code you use to call into the tele-seminar at a specific time. On the day of the tele-seminar, you call in at the designated time, and a lecture takes place that you listen to over the phone. After the lecture, you log into the CDABC website, click on My Desktop > My Events, and take the quiz for the course.
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PDF Courses - Self Study
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 Canada Handpiece: Handpiece Maintenance - Segment 1 of 4: The Preliminary Information on Handpieces, Lubricants, & Classification C0101–1 (2 credits)
The objective of this series is to help you become a better managing CDA in the arena of handpieces and their related aspects, making you a more educated and valued CDA and employee—a benefit to the practice and the patients! Each of the four segments is a stand-alone course, but it is recommended that you start with segment one.
Segment one starts with a brief history lesson, a look at the basic theory of how handpieces operate, an outline of the basic differences in types of handpieces, and deals with the most important and common aspects of handpiece maintenance. It will also highlight how this knowledge will save your clinic time and money.
Canada Handpiece: Handpiece Maintenance - Segment 2 of 4 Clean Room Equipment, Testing Methods & Equipment, High Speed Theory and Maintenance C0101–2 (2 credits)
This session assumes that you have completed session 1. In session 2 we will touch on maintenance efficiency in the sterilization/clean room; additional tips about lubricants and purging; a discussion of the pros and cons of automated maintenance machines; and a review of the aspects of maintaining high-speed handpieces.
Canada Handpiece: Handpiece Maintenance - Segment 3 of 4 Complex Handpieces (Geared and Electric) Theory and Maintenance C0101–3 (1 credit)
In session 3 we will deal with electric handpieces. Because there are many similarities in dealing with non-electric (but still complex) geared contras and attachments, we will deal with them in this session as well. Also included in this session will be both the air-driven and electric-driven straight attachments.
Canada Handpiece: Handpiece Maintenance - Segment 4 of 4 Slow speed motors, simple attachments, heads: Theory and MaintenanceC0101–4 (1 credit)
This session will deal with the simple tools: air driven slow-speed motors; 1:1 contras; heads and their transmission axles; and also with complex heads.
Common Oral Motor Disorders (3 credits)
This course details the most common oral motor disorders affecting dental patients including bruxism and clenching, treatments for bruxism and clenching, chronic oral muscle pain disorders, and involuntary orofacial movement disorders. Research findings are also discussed.
Diabetes Mellitus: A Link to Periodontal Disease (3 credits)
Diabetes mellitus, a chronic disease of metabolism, poses a significant public health challenge in the United States. This course discusses the pathophysiologic link between diabetes and periodontal disease. It describes and differentiates between the classic signs and symptoms associated with these two types, lists the most common oral manifestations, and discusses xerostomia and other oral infections. The course includes the principles of treatment and dental care of the diabetic patient, special considerations for surgical procedures, emergency management, and the use of antibiotics and glucocorticosteroids.
Drug Abuse-Dental Concerns (3 credits)
This course presents the epidemiology and extent of use of abused drugs in specific populations, it defines substance abuse, and lists the common substances of abuse including opiates, stimulants, depressants/sedative-hypnotics, hallucinogens and other compounds, and inhalants. It also involves management of the chemically-dependent dental patient, and a table of commonly abused drugs.
Erosion-Related Tooth Wear - Pathogenic Processes, Diagnosis, and Restorative Treatment (3 credits)
This course discusses the mechanisms by which teeth wear and differentiates between attrition, erosion, and abrasion. These mechanisms seldom operate singly, and the overlap of two or more of them, often at different times, adds to the complexity of diagnosis and the phenomenon of tooth wear. This course explains the pathogenic processes of erosion-related tooth wear, (including extrinsic and intrinsic causes), the value of early recognition, and the prevalence and typical signs of erosion. It describes what to include in the diagnostic protocol, gives important management options to prevent disease progression, and examines restorative treatment choices.
Oral Effects & Dental Management of Chemotherapy Patients (3 credits)
This course includes a listing of chemotherapeutic agents used to treat cancer patients, alterations in oral mucosa due to chemotherapy, oral infections in immunocompromised patients including white, red, and pigmented lesions, and oral infections in immunocompromised patients by origin including bacterial, fungal, and viral infections. This course also consists of dental management of chemotherapy patients including pre-chemotherapy through post-chemotherapy.
Oral Piercing (3 credits)
Oral or facial piercings are now commonplace and, therefore, dentists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons should be in a position to advise patients. It is important that the dental profession become aware of the recent interest in this type of body piercing of the impact this trend may have on dentition and speech, and of the health risks that are associated with piercing. This course identifies the sites and types of perioral and intraoral piercing and complications associated with each type. Complications during piercing, immediately following piercing, and possible long-term complications are identified. The management of complications from perioral and intraoral piercing is explained.
The Pros and Cons of Amalgam versus Composite Restoration (3 credits)
This course addresses the pros and cons of placing mercury-containing restorations and the most commonly used alternative (composite resin). It is a refresher course that reviews current materials used for tooth restorations; gives an historical perspective; discusses the positions of authoritative bodies on the safety, efficacy, compatibility, and serviceability of mercury-amalgam restorations; summarizes recent research comparing amalgam versus composite restorations; describes a number of safety issues that have arisen regarding the use of composite resins; and discusses clinical and cost comparisons of resin composites and amalgam restorations.
Working with Fearful and Anxious Dental Patients (3 credits) This course describes several behavioral techniques effective in guiding fearful dental patients into accepting dental treatment. These nonpharmacological techniques may be used with unduly anxious patients, individuals with specific or general fears of a dental environment and dental phobics. The course addresses the needs of fearful pediatric patients, persons with disabilities including medical or mental disorders and the frail and elderly and discusses appropriate behavioral guidance for these individuals.
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Audio Courses - Self Study
A0001 The CDA's Role in the Implementation of Therapeutic Botox in the Dental Office (1 credit)
This audio course is a recording of a live CDABC continuing education event held by telephone on March 31, 2011. After registering for this course you receive an email with instructions on how to proceed.
Presenter: Melanie Proffitt, RDH, Technical Trainer for PTIFA
Outline:
- Introduction
- The Science of Botox--what is it? How does it work? Frequently asked questions. Contraindications.
- Why dentists are qualified to administer botox
- Botox Treatment- therapeutic uses in dentistry
- The role of the CDA before, during and after treatment
- Medical history & informed consent
- Photography- why it’s important
- Post-operative instructions
A0002 What You Need to Know to Break the Chain of Infection (1 credit)
This audio course is a recording of a live CDABC continuing education event held by telephone in May 2011. After registering for this course you receive an email with instructions on how to proceed.
Presenter: Linda McLarty, Educational Support Manager for Germiphene Corporation
Outline: Consciously and unconsciously, day in and day out, whether in the dental office or at home, you break the chain of infection. How many times did you wash your hands today or use an alcohol gel? How many pairs of gloves did you use? How many instruments were cleaned and sterilized in your office?
New infection prevention and control standards and guidelines and changes in Occupational Health and Safety are being implemented across Canada. Are you equipped to protect yourself and your clients and to provide safe and ethical care? Are your practices current? This lecture will provide changes to infection prevention and control practices through research and evidence based measures. Standard Precautions and Transmission-based Precautions–airborne, droplet and contact—including hand hygiene, the use of personal protective equipment and barriers, handling contaminated materials or equipment to prevent cross-contamination, using engineering and work practice controls and respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette. This presentation will provide the tools you need to break the chain of infection.
A0003 WorkSafeBC Overview for CDAs (1 credit)
This audio course is a recording of a live CDABC continuing education event held by telephone on February 9, 2010. After registering for this course you receive an email with instructions on how to proceed.
Presenter: Dave Scott and Aaron Kong of WorkSafeBC
Outline: Excellent overview of issues affecting CDAs and their patients, including who is covered by WorkSafeBC, needlestick injuries, ergonomics, exposure control plan, and more.
A0004 Communication That Works: Saying What's on Your Mind Without Driving Others Out of Theirs (1 credit)
This audio course is a recording of a live CDABC continuing education event held by telephone on October 19, 2011. After registering for this course you receive an email with instructions on how to proceed.
Presenter: Dr. John Palmer of the Dental Professional Advisory Program (DPAP)
Outline:
- Successful communication is based on self-awareness and self-management.
- The initial part of the workshop will focus on how needs, emotions and behaviour are all related to how we communicate, and how we can coach ourselves to become more aware of our areas of challenge in each area.
- Conflict arises when communication has broken down; external and internal factors usually combine when we get into conflict; separating between internal and external sources of conflict is difficult and involves reflection. This is especially true for those in leadership positions.
- Unstructured and structured patterns of connection –a) effective and ineffective cycles of connection (shown in the “bidding” process b) Active listening template and Difficult Conversation template (Handout on Difficult conversations)
- Questions
A0005 Doormat, Lowroad, or Highroad: Which Communication Style are You Choosing? (1 credit)
This audio course is a recording of a live CDABC continuing education event held by telephone on January 19, 2012. After registering for this course you receive an email with instructions on how to proceed.
Presenter: Ms. Toni Pieroni of the Dental Professional Advisory Program (DPAP)
Outline: The course will follow this order. Please have the handouts with you while you listen to the lecture.
1. Core Values
2. Evolutionary Psychology
3. Losing and Winning Strategies
4. Non-Violent Communication
5. Wrap Up
A0006 Oral Cancer Screening with Velscope (1 credit)
This audio course is a recording of a live CDABC continuing education event held by telephone on March 21, 2012. After registering for this course you receive an email with instructions on how to proceed.
Presenter: Jeff Hickey (Velscope)
A0007 You’ve Been Slimed! Emerging Biofilm Science and Therapeutic Decisions (1 credit)
This audio course is a recording of a live CDABC continuing education event held by telephone on April 24, 2012. After registering for this course you receive an email with instructions on how to proceed.
Presenter: Susan Isaac, RDH, M.Ed
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