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O.S. Accelerator Course (2 Years Access | Monthly Payments)
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Module 111 CE Hour
Suturing 101View Objectives
xObjectives
- Following completion of this course the participant will be able to:
- – List various types of suture needles and discuss their properties.
- – Distinguish between monofilament and polyfilament sutures.
- – Distinguish between absorbable and non-absorbable sutures and understand how to select the appropriate kind.
- – Explain why we suture.
- – List common types of sutures and suturing armamentarium.
- – Demonstrate the proper technique for passing a suture through the tissue.
- – Discuss tips, techniques, and materials to simplify the suturing process.
- – Confidently place simple interrupted sutures.
- – Understand the benefits of a figure eight suture.
- – Perform a figure eight suture.
- – Demonstrate a horizontal mattress suture and list indications for this type of suture.
- – Demonstrate a vertical mattress suture and state when you may use this type of suture.
- – Confidently perform a continuous suture and list advantages and disadvantages of this type of suture.
- – Demonstrate a continuous locking suture and understand the benefits of this type of suture.
- – Bury suture knots in select situations.
- – Explain the proper technique for removing sutures.
- – Recite common suturing errors leading to difficult placement and failure of the sutures.
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Module 73 CE Hours
Local AnesthesiaView Objectives
xObjectives
- Following completion of this course the participant will be able to:
- – State why needle gauge is important.
- – Understand why we aspirate prior to injecting anesthetic.
- – Demonstrate the proper aspirating technique.
- – Demonstrate safe techniques for re-capping needles.
- – Demonstrate proper technique for injecting local anesthetic.
- – Deliver more comfortable palatal infiltrations.
- – Supplement a lower block with a lingual infiltration in the appropriate situations.
- – Identify situations when mandibular infiltrations could be effective on their own.
- – Describe a periodontal ligament (PDL) infiltration and its applications.
- – Demonstrate the proper technique for a PDL infiltration.
- – Deliver atraumatic palatal anesthesia via the papilla injection technique.
- – Be familiar with the interseptal injection.
- – Demonstrate the proper interseptal injection technique.
- – Describe the gate control theory of pain.
- – Employ this theory to make injections and exodontia more comfortable for our patients.
- – Competently utilize the greater palatine nerve block.
- – Competently utilize the nasopalatine nerve block.
- – Describe the posterior superior alveolar (PSA) nerve block.
- – Demonstrate the proper technique for a PSA nerve block.
- – Understand the application of an anterior middle superior alveolar (AMSA) nerve block.
- – Demonstrate the proper technique for an AMSA nerve block.
- – Describe the anterior superior alveolar (ASA) nerve block.
- – Demonstrate the proper technique for an ASA block.
- – Understand and demonstrate 2 different approaches to maxillary (V2) nerve blocks.
- – Discuss the intraoral cervical plexus anesthetic technique (ICPAT) and the potential merits of this injection.
- – Perform a successful supplementary ICPAT injection.
- – Describe the mental nerve block and its application.
- – Demonstrate the proper technique for a mental nerve block.
- – Understand the applications for the Vazirani-Akinosi nerve block.
- – Perform a successful Vazirani-Akonosi nerve block.
- – Discuss the buccal nerve block.
- – Utilize a more predictable technique for buccal nerve block anesthesia.
- – Describe the Gow-Gates block.
- – Demonstrate the proper technique for a Gow-Gates nerve block.
- – Describe the proper inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) block technique and deliver more predictable anesthesia of the IAN.
- – Recall and demonstrate additional less-conventional approaches to IAN nerve blocks.
- – List reasons why mandibular blocks fail and how to limit failures of these blocks.
- – List the various types of anesthetic allergies.
- – Circumvent and or manage various anesthetic allergies.
- – Explain what methemaglobinemia is and how can it be triggered.
- – Discuss tachyphylaxis and how it affects the quality of our anesthesia.
- – Appreciate why infection counteracts profound anesthesia and how to overcome this.
- – Recognize the signs and symptoms of anesthetic toxicity and common causes of toxicity.
- – Identify causes of pain during dental injections and how to minimize this discomfort for our patients.
- – Recognize and manage other common complications of local anesthesia.
- – State the cause and management of temporary facial nerve paralysis.
- – Recall useful facts about anesthetic carpules.
- – Learn the properties of the 5 most commonly employed local anesthetics in dentistry.
- – Select the appropriate anesthetic for the procedure at hand.
- – Discuss the properties of articaine and it’s applications for exodontia.
- – Appreciate the controversy surrounding the use of Articaine for lower blocks.
- – Describe the types of topical anesthetic.
- – Demonstrate the proper application of topical anesthetic.
- – Discuss a potent, novel, custom compounded topical agent to employ in your practice.
- – Describe the properties of Oraverse® (phentolamine) and its recommended dosage.
- – Understand when one might use Oraverse®.
- – Explain the significance of the pKa of anesthetics.
- – Understand we have to wait for anesthetic to take effect.
- – Discuss anesthetic buffering and its advantages.
- – Utilize anesthesia in select cases to help diagnose a toothache.
- – Anesthetize pediatric patients with more confidence.
- – Understand how one can safely anesthetize a patient for multiple extractions or a full mouth clearance.
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