This course is designed to educate dental professionals on the oral health needs common to nursing home residents and care-dependent patients, as well as the role dental professionals can play in promoting oral health among these populations and their caregivers. These are vulnerable populations that suffer from multiple barriers, such as reduced access to oral healthcare, potential physical or mental limitations, and dependence on others for daily care. Among nursing home re
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Oral Care for Nursing Home and Care-Dependent Patients is offered by P&G dentalcare for dental professionals. Topics in this listing: Oral health.
Check the credit type and approval notes below against your credential. The provider handles enrollment, completion and the certificate.
Provider states 2 credit hours. AGD subject codes: 750. Confirm state board acceptance.
Listed roles: Dentist, Dental Hygienist, Dental Assistant
State scope: No individual state acceptance claim is made in this listing.
AGD PACEThe provider identifies this activity as free continuing education. Complete the stated assessment and claiming requirements.
The recorded cost is $0 for learning, assessment and the certificate, with no separate reporting fee identified. P&G dentalcare requires a free account. The provider identifies this activity as free continuing education. Complete the stated assessment and claiming requirements.
The provider lists 2 Dental CE. Recorded roles: Dentist, Dental Hygienist, Dental Assistant. Match the individual track below to your credential and board before enrolling.
This is an on-demand activity in the current collection; follow the source link to begin. The recorded credit expiration date is 2027-10-30.
Register for a free dentalcare account to take the test. Complete the course assessment and follow the provider’s certificate instructions. Completion and certificate delivery are handled by P&G dentalcare; saving this listing does not enroll you or claim credit.
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The purpose of this interactive course is to provide dental practitioners and students with an overview of hard tissue disease, factors that influence the disease process and evidence-based self-care prevention practices. This course includes patient cases as knowledge point checks.
This course is intended for anyone new to the field of oral health care: dental assisting, dental therapy, dental hygiene, dentistry, dental laboratory technology, or anyone already in the field who would like a dental vocabulary refresher. The most commonly used terms in oral health care will be defined. The professionals associated with oral health care will be discussed. Useful prefixes and suffixes often used to create dental/medical words are presented, as are some commo
The primary goal of this course is to help dental professionals learn the process of clinical differential diagnosis of diseases and lesions of the oral mucosa. This course includes both an interactive and downloadable decision tree to assist in the differential diagnosis process.
