Session 1 | Special Care Dentistry and the Dental Team: A Look at Each Team Member on the Dental Team and Why Everyone Is Important

Presenter: Brook Fukuoka, DMD, FSCD, Your Special Smiles PLLC & Vaughn Hixson, RDH, Family Health Services Advanced Delivery Dental Clinic

Online CME Credit

Fee: $0.00

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Provides 1.00 hour of CE/CME credit (Presented on February 22, 2024; Reviewed February 23, 2024; Expires February 22, 2026)

Overview

Special Care Dentistry and the Dental Team is an overview of how every team member can help improve the dental experience for adult patients who have special healthcare needs.

This is a four-part series, to increase awareness of caring for Nevadans with intellectual and developmental disabilities (ID/DD).  To view all session topics in this series, please click on EVERY SMILE MATTERS NEVADA Series.

The Nevada Division of Health Care Finance and Policy with support from the American Rescue Plan Act has provided the funding for this project.

Learning Objectives

Following participation in this course, participants should be able to:

  • Discuss how a dental assistant can adjust to improve success in special care dentistry
  • Discuss how a receptionist can adjust to improve success in special care dentists
  • Discuss how a hygienist can adjust to improve success in special care dentistry
  • Learn how to select and train a team to work with these wonderful patients

Program Faculty

Brook Fukuoka, DMD, FSCD, Your Special Smiles PLLC

Program Inquiries

For questions or inquiries regarding this program series, please contact cme@med.unr.edu.

This project was funded by the American Rescue Act the Nevada Division of Health Care Finance and Policy.

Dr. Brooke Fukuoka certifies that she has obtained consent to utilize all images and videos of patients used in creating this four-part series.