Oral Sedation Recertification - Half Day (Oct 18, 2025)

Oral Sedation Recertification - Half Day is organized by DOCS Education and will be held on Oct 18, 2025.

Course Description:
Introducing the Oral Sedation Recertification program from DOCS Education, created to help you expand your skill set, increase protocols, and maintain your state’s sedation dentistry recertification requirements. Half-day live lecture can be completed in one morning, either online or in person!

Provide your patients with the highest level of care through up-to-date knowledge of sedation techniques, risk assessment, and emergency management. You must meet recertification qualifications if your state requires you to obtain a permit to offer Oral Conscious Sedation (Minimal Sedation or Moderate Enteral Sedation) and the DOCS program can meet that need.

Sedation dentistry is an evolving field this course completely updates and refreshes attendees on the pharmacology, best practices, and proven DOCS Education protocols you require for recertification – and to maintain your patients’ safety.

Objectives:

• Discuss recent advances in oral conscious sedation techniques and industry standards.
• Review case studies combining complex medical conditions and the dentistry needed to be performed.
• Learn the nine crucial safety provisions critical for both patient and practitioner.
• Identify five key airway management techniques.
• Review the best methods to readily increase or decrease the level of sedation.
• Understand techniques for assessing patient variability and ensuring best drug choice.
• Learn advanced treatment planning for neglected mouths.
• Review procedures for assessing which patients are appropriate for sedation.
• Learn how to use pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics to select a drug that meets your individual patient's needs.
• Get current on the Standard of Care doctrine for monitoring.
• Stay updated on the latest guidelines and regulations to ensure compliance.

Oral Sedation Recertification Training Includes:

• Discuss recent advances in oral conscious sedation techniques and industry standards.
• Update patient assessment protocols based on new medical criteria.
• Reexamine the best sedative for each patient based on the latest drugs and their interactions.
• Get current on the Standard of Care doctrine for monitoring.
• Stay updated on the latest guidelines and regulations to ensure compliance.
• Learn a dental response to COVID-19.