Course Description

Your Patient is Addicted to Nicotine: What is Your Plan?
Dental Professionals have a unique opportunity to share life-saving information with their patients that are addicted to nicotine products. Although smoking rates have declined there are still over 36 million adults that smoke in the U.S.A. The products are rapidly evolving and causing dental and medical disease, disability, and death to their users. This course will give the dental team the tools needed to be able to start their patient’s journey of becoming free of smoking, vaping, and dipping. This session will cover products that patients are using, medications that can be utilized in treatment, a systematic approach to determining their level of addiction, and Motivational Interviewing techniques. Dental treatment provides an opening for counseling to begin by discussing the many benefits to stopping smoking. This course is designed to increase the confidence of the dental provider in having the opportunity to support their patient during the difficult task of fighting their addiction.

Course Objectives

At the completion of this course the participants should be able to:

1. Discuss with patients the different forms of nicotine delivery systems.
2. Have a working knowledge of the types and dosing of FDA approved medications and OTC products to treat nicotine addiction.
3. Be introduced to a systematic approach to counseling their patient chairside.
4. Be introduced to the concepts involved with Motivational Interviewing as an approach to behavioral change.

The educational teaching methodology used in this course is a lecture presented via live webinar in concert with an accompanying PowerPoint presentation. Both the live lecture and the PowerPoint presentation incorporate a variety of audio and visual cues to enhance audience members’ understanding and retention of key concepts. In addition, audience participation will be encouraged and facilitated by group discussions as well as question and answer periods provided for at the conclusion of each section of the live webinar."

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