Australian Dental Association SA Branch (ADASA) Oral Anxiolysis

Australian Dental Association SA Branch (ADASA) Oral Anxiolysis is organized by Australian Dental Association SA Branch (ADASA) Inc. and will be held on May 30, 2026 at Australian Dental Association SA, Goodwood, South Australia, Australia.

Description:
Supported by, Dr Preketes and Dr Walker, Clinical Senior Lecturers (Oral Surgery, Medicine and Diagnostics) at the University of Sydney and Senior Examiners in the Conscious Sedation Diploma at the University of Sydney, the only diploma recognized by APHRA. Dr Walker also serves on the Conscious sedation Advisory committee for APHRA.

One full day is needed to educate Dentists in comprehensive oral anxiolysis and its nuances and complexities to provide the appropriate medications. The one-day course in Oral Anxiolysis is aimed at providing the candidate with the skills and knowledge to deliver oral medications safely and recognise and manage medical emergencies that may occur with the use of oral anxiolytics.

Are you aware that sedation and Anxiolysis in dentistry is coming up for review. Hence, we encourage practitioners that their education in Oral Anxiolysis is current and up to date. This course is specifically targeted to dentists who wish to give oral anxiolytics/ sedatives and the complications that may arise. Dr Walker and Dr Preketes provide this course as they have are both passionate about sedation in the dental setting and set out to ensure all practitioners are educated in the safe administration of oral sedatives to the benefit of their patients. 

This new program will provide formal education in oral anxiolysis, that dentists currently do not have access to. Oral sedation/anxiolysis is a technique used commonly by dentists to decrease a patient’s anxiety and induce appropriate level of anxiolysis and calm, to enable dental treatment to proceed. With this technique, a patient’s airway and communication skills remain intact.

The core of our teaching is based on a safe and comprehensive oral dental sedation/anxiolysis training program. To successfully teach sedation protocols, we further develop a dentists understanding of pharmacology and physiology, to administer oral sedatives/anxiolytics effectively and safely. The Oral Anxiolysis course is taught over one day and is divided into the following modules.

1. Introduction to oral sedation
2. Pharmacology and physiology
3. Patient selection and assessment
4. Pharmacology of oral sedatives and types
5. Reversal agents
6. Minimal oral sedation protocols
7. Patient monitoring visual, verbal, mechanical/electronic (blood pressure, heart rates, SPO2) and what all this information means. For example, “what are critical numbers in monitoring for patient care?”
8. Patient discharge
9. Recognition and management of medical emergencies, training in BLS: -Recognition, assessment, and management of the critically ill patient using a structured ABCDE approach (aiming to prevent cardiac arrest)
Airway management skills
Basic life support
Defibrillation skills
Cardiac arrest management using the
ARC BLS Algorithm
Work as an effective team member in a cardiac arrest