Leveraging Pharmacology
Time:
9:00 – 10:30 AM
Course Description:
Dr. John Launer wisely noted that* “the eyes cannot see what the mind doesn’t know.” A similar remark can be made regarding local anesthesia in that challenges may persist when alternative strategies are either underappreciated or unknown. This course will discuss local anesthetic drugs when overcoming challenges to profound anesthesia, as well as techniques that leverage pharmacology to significantly impact success. Many who routinely administer epinephrine in LA drug solutions, for example, view its benefits as limited to hemostasis, increasing the duration of anesthesia, and reducing toxicity, perhaps less aware or unaware of a 4thimportant benefit.
Credits for this course satisfy a portion of the seven hours of continuing dental education dentists must participate in every five years when administering N2O-O2 minimal sedation.
*Jlauner: The art of paying attention, BMJ 2002; 378 doi: https://doi-org/10.1136/bmj.o2299 [published 28 September 2022]
Participants can expect:
To challenge their own knowledge bases regarding pharmacologic options
To challenge the nature of their current strategies, i.e., evidence-based or hope-based?
To adopt approaches that leverage pharmocolgy via the literature and anecdotally
CE:
1.5
Speaker Information
Dr. Art Dimarco DMD
Dr. Art DiMarco is the Course Director of Local Anesthesia for the RIDE Spokane program and an affiliate faculty at UWSOD. In addition, he is professor of dental hygiene at Eastern Washington University and a long-term clinician, author, and educator. During his more than thirty-five years of clinical practice, he has taught in a number of dental, dental hygiene, and dental assisting programs. His research and publications have focused primarily on the efficacy and administration of local anesthesia in both educational and non-educational settings. Paralleling these activities, he continues to teach many didactic and hands-on university and continuing education courses in local anesthesia for dentists, dental hygienists, and dental and dental hygiene students. In addition to the Curriculum Committee on which he serves, he is a member of the UWSOD Student Progress Committee as Spokane RIDE representative.
