A Safe Approach to Opioids in Dental Practice
Continuing Education | On-Demand
Status: Registration is Open ~
A Separate and unique email address is REQUIRED for each registrant! Once your registration is received, you will be manually added to the course, and an email will be sent to you with instructions to login and access the pre-recorded webinar.
Topic: "A Safe Approach to Opioids in Dental Practice, Responsibilities & Requirements for Prescribing Schedule II Opioid Drugs"
Speakers: Reb Close, MD and Casey Grover, MD
CE Units: 2 ~ This course meets the Dental Board of California's requirements for 2 units of continuing education for the mandatory continuing education course, "Responsibilities and Requirements of Prescribing Schedule II Opioid Drugs".
Outline:
- - The History of the opioid epidemic
- - Current statistics on opioid overdoses
- - Educational materials for patients about opioids and pain
- - Best practices for safe pain management
Course Summary:
- - This is a mandatory 2-unit course for dental license renewal
- - As a dental/oral surgeon, learn about your responsibilities and requirements for opioid prescribing
- - Practices for pain management in dentistry
- - The risks and identification of opioid use disorder
- - Learn about the very different patient presentations a dentist/oral surgeon may encounter in their practice
- - Review educational materials for patients that can increase patient awareness of the dangers of prescription medications and encourage treatment of substance use
- - Best practice for dental pain management
Course description: Drs. Reb Close and Casey Grover will provide an evidence-based course on pain management and opioid prescribing in dental practice. Topics will include the responsibilities and requirements for opioid prescribing, best practices for pain management, identification and management of patients with opioid use disorder, and best practices for educating patients on safe pain management.
Casey Grover, MD. Dr. Casey Grover is board certified in both Addiction Medicine and Emergency Medicine. He attended medical school at UCLA and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at Stanford University. He currently practices in the Emergency Department at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula and has an outpatient Addiction Medicine practice.
Reb Close, MD. Dr. Reb Close is board certified in both Addiction Medicine and Emergency Medicine. She attended medical school at UCLA and completed a residency in Emergency Medicine at UCLA. She currently practices in an outpatient Addiction Medicine clinic, provides addiction care in a street-based clinic for unhoused patients, and also has a clinic in the Monterey County jail for incarcerated patients with addiction.
