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This information will increase awareness and understanding by dental health personnel in the matters of health and oral health literacy. This course will define oral health literacy, describe steps being taken by professional oral healthcare organizations to address oral health literacy issues, and provide dental team members with practical strategies and resources to incorporate into their dental practices in improve patient understanding.

This course includes areas of prevention that are important for the dental professional to assess during your patients' dental examinations. Dentistry in the United States includes many different preventive practices, such as prophylaxis, fuoride treatments, full-mouth and bite-wing radiographs, sealants and other forms of primary preventive treatments used to detect dental caries and periodontal disease early.

Administration of nitrous oxide/oxygen analgesia/anxiolysis is a safe and effective technique for reducing and even eliminating anxiety during dental treatment. This CE course will describe the objectives, indications and contraindications, and technique for successful administration of nitrous oxide to the pediatric patient.

This course will give guidelines on how to make esthetic changes for teeth that are discolored, worn, chipped, or misaligned. Porcelain veneers are considered to be strong and to have great esthetics and a long term prognosis.

The aim of this course is to provide dental professionals prevention and treatment approaches, information on connections to oral health and specific treatment plans for each condition.

The purpose of this course is to provide a discussion on the guidelines for radiographic exposure intervals for the reduction of ionizing radiation and innovative techniques that are helpful in conducting radiographic examinations for the pediatric patient. Also, suggestions for communicating with patients and parents about radiation safety and the need for radiographs are covered.

As this nation of 300 million interacts with and attempts to assimilate 1 million new Hispanic arrivals each year, some dental practices may choose to become more aware of an unfamiliar language and culture. Creating a dental office in which Hispanics are comfortable and well served will be very important to future growth for some dental offices. And all dental practices are likely to find that treating patients with language and cultural differences is much easier if the dental team is prepared.

This course provides the dental professional with a broad overview of various categories of drugs and their implications for dental patients and treatment.

Proper patient care includes obtaining diagnostic intraoral and extraoral radiographs which are essential to patient assessment, periodontal therapy, treatment and re-evaluation. Radiographs are especially helpful during instrumentation as a guide for detection of calculus deposits or faulty restorations, as well as the diagnosis of dental caries, alveolar bone loss, pulpal changes, and anatomical imperfections in tooth and root surfaces. It is imperative that dental professionals are competent in taking radiographs to ensure diagnostically acceptable images, while keeping the amount of radiation exposure to patients at a minimum.

Decisions made by the dental healthcare provider concerning patient therapy or oral health products should be based on research findings. Research reports are the basis for evidence-based decision-making in clinical practice. This continuing education course will serve as the first in a series of articles on how to use published research for making decisions about patient care.