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Virtually presented via Zoom Webinar

Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EST; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE; Registration is still required.
CE Credits: 1.5 lecture credits
**NOTE: For the best viewing experience, use the Google Chrome browser or download the Zoom app.

Description

Success in orthodontic treatment for a child with an intellectual disability is the extent to which the treatment rendered fulfills the parent’s expectation. How close you come to delivering the experience and treatment outcome that the parent was promised the day of the initial examination will determine orthodontic success. The concept of under-promise and overdeliver is usually a good policy. Mindset is more important than technical ability.

Objectives

• Understand the nature of the child with intellectual disabilities
• Appreciate the parental perspective on their child with intellectual disabilities

Speaker

Marc Ackerman, DMD, MBA, FACD is the Director of Orthodontics at Boston Children’s Hospital where he practices orthodontics full time. He also teaches residents in pediatric dentistry for the Harvard School of Dental Medicine. Clinically, he specializes in the orthodontic treatment of patients with dentofacial deformity, intellectual and physical disabilities and sleep disordered breathing. Dr. Ackerman has published numerous peer-reviewed articles in orthodontics and professional ethics and his monograph, Enhancement Orthodontics: Theory and Practice, was released in 2007 by Blackwell-Wiley. He is a co-recipient of the 2004 B.F. and Helen E. Dewel Award from the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics which is given annually to the highest-rated clinical research article published in the previous year. Dr. Ackerman was the Editor-in-Chief of Special Care in Dentistry Journal from 2013-2016.

Virtually presented via Zoom Webinar

Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EST; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE; Registration is still required.
CE Credits: 1.5 lecture credits
**NOTE: For the best viewing experience, use the Google Chrome browser or download the Zoom app.

Description

Oral Health is the most unmet health care need for children and adults with disabilities. How has our profession allowed that to happen and what can we do to fix this problem. If not you, who will improve access to and quality of c are for this most medically and dentally underserved population. This lecture will help dental professionals address these issues.

Objectives

• Address barriers to care, including behavior guidance and medical immobilization/protective stabilization.

Speaker

Steven Perlman DDS, MScD, DHL (hon), is a Clinical Professor of Pediatric Dentistry at the Boston University Goldman School of Dental Medicine. For the past 40 years, he has devoted much of his private practice as well as his teaching, to the treatment of children and adults with physical and intellectual disabilities. Dr. Perlman is a past president of the academy of Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities, the Massachusetts Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities, A fellow of the American College of Dentists and a Diplomate of the American Board of Special Care Dentistry.

Virtually presented via Zoom Webinar

Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EST; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE; Registration is still required.
CE Credits: 1.5 lecture credits
**NOTE: For the best viewing experience, use the Google Chrome browser or download the Zoom app.

Description

Beginning with the world of fashion photography, the lecture highlights cultural perceptions of beauty in modern society while concurrently exploring cultural perceptions of people living with genetic, physical and behavioral differences.

This global journey considers the importance of self-acceptance, self-esteem and self-advocacy as necessary tools to empower individuals and their families at risk of stigma, discrimination and exclusion. Images of several medical conditions will be presented as a stark contrast to existing imagery in medical education, while also emphasizing the importance of showcasing humanity and dignity through photography, film and narrative.

Positive Exposure will also provide samples of 2 programs, including FRAME (Faces Redefining the Art of Medical Education; FRAME is a web-based educational library and resource that changes how medical information is presented to health care professionals in training, clinicians, families and communities.

Each brief film creates a more robust understanding of featured conditions, while modeling an attitude of respect for the humanity of patients. While providing important key information, each film captures humanity and beauty of all participants.

Objectives

Participants will have a better understanding of the importance of photography, film, narrative and personal stories to facilitate more successful interactions with patients and families.

Through the FRAME program, participants will have an opportunity to meet individuals living with intellectual and developmental disabilities outside of the clinical environment.

Speaker

Virtually presented via Zoom Webinar

Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EST; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE; Registration is still required.
CE Credits: 1.5 lecture credits
**NOTE: For the best viewing experience, use the Google Chrome browser or download the Zoom app.

Description

This CE course will describe the epidemiology of the most common Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities and discuss the challenges of providing high quality dental care to this population due to political, economic, social, and clinical barriers. Best practices for improving and maintaining oral health of individuals with ASD will be discussed, with an emphasis on the role of an effectively collaborating interprofessional healthcare team. Clinical techniques in therapeutic dentistry will be reviewed in a case-based format.

Objectives

• Describe the epidemiology of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities.
• Understand the challenges and best practices for providing dental care to individuals with IDD.
• Discuss the importance of an interprofessional healthcare team approach for improving the oral health of individuals with IDD.
• Review cases representing unique dental management strategies and techniques in providing dental therapy to individuals with IDD.

Speakers

Lyubov Slashcheva, DDS, MS, FABSCD, is a special needs and geriatric dentist, working at Apple Tree Dental in Rochester, MN. She is also a public health research collaborator with the Mayo Clinic’s Rochester Epidemiology Project. Dr. Slashcheva obtained her undergraduate degree at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Virginia, where she grew up. After obtaining dental training at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia as a National Health Service Corps Dental Scholar, she pursued residency training at the University of Iowa in Geriatric & Special Needs Dentistry and Dental Public Health. Alongside residency training, Dr. Slashcheva participated as a LEND fellow and obtained graduate certificates in biostatistics and global health. She has served on the boards of organizations such as the American Academy of Developmental Medicine and Dentistry, the American Public Health Association (Oral Health Section), the Center for Sustainable Climate Solutions, and the Mennonite Healthcare Fellowship. Alongside her professional endeavors, Dr. Slashcheva is an avid bi-cyclist and enjoys helping on her husband’s vegetable farm and spending time with their three children.

Virtually presented via Zoom Webinar

Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EST; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE; Registration is still required.
CE Credits: 1.5 lecture credits
**NOTE: For the best viewing experience, use the Google Chrome browser or download the Zoom app.

Description

This presentation is designed to provide clinicians with an understanding of what is “disability” and how do some disabilities effect oral health. It will present the diagnostic and oral health implications of a series of disabilities-developmental and acquired, intellectual and physical,that are encountered routinely in dental practice and help explain how best to navigate the oral health issues encountered.

Objectives

• Identify what constitutes a disability.
• Understand the spectrum of disabilities through the lifespan
• Determine necessary modifications to care necessary based upon the disability.

Speaker

Miriam Robbins, DDS, MS, is the Chair of the Department of Dental Medicine at NYU Langone Health-Long Island and the Department of Family Dental Medicine at the NYU Long Island School of Medicine in Mineola, NY. She received her dental degree from SUNY at Buffalo School of Dental Medicine and her MS in Management and Health Policy from the Robert Wagner School of Public Policy at NYU. She completed her residency at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center and an American Cancer fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, both in New York City. She is a past president of the Special Care Dentistry Association as well as the American Academy of Oral Medicine. She lectures nationally and internationally as well as contributing to the dental and medical literature on the dental management of special needs and medically complex patients.

Presented virtually via Zoom Webinar

Time: 5:30-7:00 pm EST; This virtual lecture will begin promptly at 5:30 pm via Zoom Webinar.
Registration: FREE; Registration is still required.
CE Credits: 1.5 lecture credits
**NOTE: For the best viewing experience, use the Google Chrome browser or download the Zoom app.

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