CDE: [The Dean's Speaker Series] Dentistry for the Homebound – Part 2 of 2

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Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm
Registration Fee: Free; Registration is required for CE credit.
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CE Credits: 1.0 lecture credits

Description

Providing quality dental care in an office location is challenging. Delivering quality dental care in a patient’s kitchen adds significantly to the challenge. The two lecture series: Homebound Dental Care is designed to provide dental students with an overview of the demographics driving the increased demand for this service and how to provide comprehensive, quality dental care in patients homes safely and efficiently.

Dr. Stark will cover his final 3 topics during the second part of his presentation. These final 3 topics represent the basic skills and background information necessary to provide Homebound Dental Care.

This lecture is devoted to:

Standard Precautions in Non Standard Environments and Biohazard Waste

This is a “just the facts” presentation of what practitioners need to know to practice safely in a patients’s home. Topics covered will include: How to standardize a non standard environment. How to dispose of, or transport Biohazard waste that complies with EPA and OSHA regulations. The role of Organizational and Engineering Controls in standard precautions.

Hospice Care

Practitioners who provide Homebound Dental Care will be called to provide Hospice Care. The goal of Hospice Care is different from the Comprehensive Care Model. The focus is on providing comfort care: relief of pain or discomfort, restoration of self esteem to the extent possible. While emotionally challenging, many who provide this care find it to be very satisfying.

Three Successful Business Models

The demand for Homebound Dental Care may be on the rise, but can practitioners provide this service at a profit? Dr. Stark will present three, different, profitable business models. These case studies in the business of Homebound Dental Care demonstrate how practitioners from different parts of the US chose different approaches to meet a complex community based need.

Objectives

• At the conclusion of the presentation the student will recognise correct standard precautions and identify how to handle biohazard waste in patient’s homes and during transportation.
• At the conclusion of the presentation the student will be able to describe their perspective on how to provide hospice care to patients.

Speaker

Alan M Stark, DDS, PhD, Diplomate ABSCD (ret)

Dr. Alan Stark has spent his entire professional career caring and advocating for geriatric patients and persons with special needs. After graduating from Georgetown University School of Dentistry, Dr. Stark completed a hospital based residency at The Southbury Training School in Connecticut. Southbury was a federally funded, state operated residential facility for 1500 severely and profoundly affected persons. After completing his residency, he was hired as Chief of Dental Services for the Handicapped by the State of Rhode Island. His responsibilities included direct patient care, and public health initiatives to increase access to dental care for this underserved population.

Dr. Stark left state service after three years to open a private practice in Bethesda Md. This office based practice focused on Geriatrics and ambulatory special needs patients. Dr. Stark learned to provide bedside dental care during his training and subsequent state service. He continued to provide care in private homes, nursing homes and hospitals in the metropolitan DC region.

Dr. Stark started his academic teaching career immediately after completion of his residency. The chairman of the Department of Community Dentistry at Georgetown invited him to give a lecture on care of the handicapped. That initial lecture grew into 2 courses: Dentistry for the Handicapped, and Geriatric Dentistry.

In 1991 Dr. Stark was offered a tenure track position at Temple University. He designed the curriculum in Dentistry for Persons with Disabilities and Geriatrics, and taught those courses as course director until he retired. His clinical assignment was in the Oral Medicine Clinic at Temple, where he taught for 23 years. During his tenure he was nominated to the Board of Special Care Dentistry, served as President of the American Society of Geriatric Dentistry and was awarded Diplomat status in the American Board of Special Cate Dentistry. He earned a PhD in Psychoeducational Processes (Adult Education) from Temple University School of Education in 2000. He is married to Mary Jean for 32 years, lives in Ambler PA, has 2 married sons, one granddaughter and is looking forward to welcoming a second granddaughter in May 2020.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider. ADA CERP is a service of the American Dental Association to assist dental professionals in identifying quality providers of continuing dental education. ADA CERP does not approve or endorse individual courses or instructors, nor does it imply acceptance of credit hours by boards of dentistry.

University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine designates this activity for 1.0 continuing education credits.