Compendium’s Complex Cases: Caring for the Special Needs Population

Irina Dragan, DMD, DDS, MS; David Alexander, BDS, MSc, DDPH; Mark Wolff, DDS, PhD; Anne Eshenaur Spolarich, RDH, PhD

October 2022 Course
Expires: Friday, October 31st, 2025

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Abstract

Often, people with cognitive, developmental, or physical disabilities have trouble finding a dental team willing and able to meet their needs. Join hosts Drs. Irina Dragan and David Alexander and special guest Dr. Mark Wolff, Dean of Penn Dental Medicine, for a discussion of solutions to build confidence and competence in managing the needs of individuals with disabilities.

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CREDITS: 1 SI
COST: $0.00
PROVIDER: AEGIS Publications, LLC
SOURCE: Compendium of Continuing Education in Dentistry | October 2022
COMMERCIAL SUPPORTER: Spear Education

Learning Objectives:

  • Discuss the challenges visited upon the treatment of persons with intellectual or developmental disabilities (IDD) / all disabilities
  • Describe processes and changes that can be incorporated into practice to better allow for care of the growing IDD population
  • Review resources to assist in practices creating the necessary mind-shift to reduce the marginalization of the IDD population within health care

Author Qualifications:

Irina Dragan, DDS, MS: Instructor, Advanced Graduate Periodontology Program, Harvard School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA; Adjunct Associate Professor and former Director of Faculty Education and Instructional Development, Tufts University School of Dental Medicine, Boston, MA; Private practice, Brookline, MA; David C. Alexander, BDS, Principal and Owner, Appolonia Global Health; Adjunct Professor, NYU College of Dentistry, New York, NY; Mark Wolff, DDS: Dean, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, Philadephia, PA; Ann Eshenaur Spolarich, RDH, PhD: adjunct associate professor and course director of clinical medicine and pharmacology at the Arizona School of Dentistry and Oral Health in Mesa, Ariz, and clinical associate professor at the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. She is also the associate director of the National Center for Dental Hygiene Research.

Disclosures:

The author reports no conflicts of interest associated with this work.

Queries for the presenter may be directed to justin.romano@broadcastmed.com.