Local anesthetic-CE Event

Brought to you by Dr. Curtis, Dr. Sautter, Dr. Misner and Dr. Brown

ABOUT THE PRESENTER

STANLEY F. MALAMED, D.D.S. is a dentist anesthesiologist and emeritus professor of dentistry at Herman OstrowSchool of Dentistry, located in Los Angeles, California. In 1973, Professor Malamed joined the faculty of the University of Southern California School of Dentistry (now the Herman Ostrow School of Dentistry of U.S.C). Dr. Malamed retired from the University in 2013. Doctor Malamed has authored more than 190 Scientific papers and 17 chapters in various medical and dental journals and textbooks in the areas of physical evaluation, emergency medicine, local anesthesia, sedation and general anesthesia. In addition, Dr. Malamed is the author of three widely used textbooks, published by CV Mosby: Handbook of Medical Emergencies in the Dental Office (8 th edition 2023); Handbook of Local Anesthesia (7 th edition 2020); and Sedation-a guide to patient management (7 th edition 2024) and two interactive DVD’s: Emergency Medicine (3 rd edition, 2018) and Malamed’s Local Anesthetic Technique DVD (2004) (edition2-2012).

COURSE SYNOPSIS

Patients do not want to experience pain during their dental treatment. Fortunately, local anesthesia forms the backbone of pain control techniques in dentistry. Local anesthetics are the safest and most effective drugs for the prevention and management of pain. Yet, on occasion, achieving profound anesthesia painlessly can be challenging. In this program we will discuss a means to making dental local anesthetic injections both more effective and more comfortable, as well as safer-the new A, B, C’s of the dental pain control. Articaine; Buffering; and Cold testing to ensure pulpal anesthesia.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

On successful completion of this program the enrollee should be able to:

1. Discuss the advantages of articaine HCI compared with other dental local anesthetics

2. List 3 advantages of buffering local anesthetics

3. Discuss the protocol for the use of cold testing following local anesthetic administration