Want to know more about treating patients in long-term care facilities?

By | November 6, 2014

With a goal to reduce barriers to dental care for some 1.3 million nursing home residents in the U.S., the ADA has launched a Long-term Care Dental Campaign that includes an online continuing education course.

Dentistry in Long-term Care: Pathways to Success, is an eight-module course designed to help oral health professionals become more comfortable providing care in long-term care settings and to create successful and sustainable oral health delivery programs that serve nursing home residents.

Participants will receive 10 CE credits when they complete the course. The modules cover topics that include the structure and organization of long-term care facilities; choosing an appropriate delivery model; regulatory and legal compliance; creating and organizing an oral health program; working with complex patients; treatment planning; financial considerations in long-term care; establishing an environment for effective daily mouth care; and accessing the scientific literature.

For more details on the course or to register, visit success.ada.org/en/dentistry-in-long-term-care-course. Cost for ADA members is $475 and $650 for nonmembers. Up to three additional staff members can register for $150 per person. (Team members must register at the same time as the dentist for this reduced rate.)

The campaign is an initiative of the ADA’s Action for Dental Health, a nationwide, community-based movement aimed at ending the dental health crisis facing America today. Read more about the Long-term Care Dental Campaign here.

Do you treat nursing home patients in your practice? How can dentists help to reach this population?

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