Continuing Dental Education

Local Anesthesia: 30+ Years of Hits, Misses and Near Misses

Date:	Sunday, November 10, 2013
Time:	Registration: 8:30 a.m. Lecture: 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Tuition	$175 DDS / $125 AUX
Location:	Loma Linda University School of Dentistry
Credit:	This course meets the Dental Board of California’s requirements for 7 units of continuing education
AGD Code:	132

Mel Hawkins, DDS, BScD(AN) Dentist/Dentist Anesthesiologist Toronto, ON  Canada

SYNOPSIS

Local anesthesia pharmacology IS technique and local anesthetic technique IS pharmacology. The participant will learn to enhance local anesthesia techniques via the clinical application of modern pharmacology and multi-tasking with advanced block approaches and infiltration. Product selection and what's new, what's coming and much more is presented.

OBJECTIVES

After this presentation the attendees will be able to: Answer the question, "Why do I only receive a "bad batch" in the mandible?" Understand the influence of tissue and product pH Multitask with combinations of techniques, volume and make intelligent choices as to which local anesthetics might be used when. Finally (?) understand vasoconstrictors, their drug interactions, blood pressure and what to use, what not to use and why. Apply 12 tips and tricks learned the hard way over almost 40 years. Assess and critique case reports, or respond to, "What would you do now, Doctor?" Have a renewed respect for why "M. and M's" can end in tragedy, mostly in children.

For more information email continuinged@llu.edu or call (909) 558-4685.