Infection Control For The Dental Office 2025

Infection Control For The Dental Office is organized by University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) School of Dental Medicine and will be held on Mar 08, 2025 at UNLV Dental School, Las Vegas, Nevada, United States of America.

Description:
This course will discuss the Centers for Disease Control Guidelines for Dentistry and subsequent updates regarding proper infection control standards and recommendations. Believe it or not, this class is fun because it involves your participation as well as mine. I like to have everyone ask questions throughout our time together to keep things interesting and germane to you and your concerns.

• Differentiate between OSHA and CDC Guidelines
• Demonstrate how to avoid cross contamination in your practice
• Concentrate on safe implementation of inexpensive practices to protect
• you, personnel, and your patients
• Review the Centers for Disease Control infection control guidelines

Learning Objectives:
At the end of this course, participants should be able to:

• Describe universal and standard precautions 
• Identify and describe disease transmission and infectious hazards in the dentalsetting
• Discuss occupational exposures and prevention, post-exposure management andprophylaxis to blood borne pathogens
• Establish objectives, goals, and management of an infection control program in the dental setting