Package Description

This presentation will identify risks in the dental care of patients and how they can be mitigated with the training of staff and modifications to the practice pattern from the perspective of the pediatric dentist. The presentation will address ways to evaluate safety culture in practice, the continuum of risk, and its mitigation from a patient-centered model through the orbits of personnel, the practice environment, the digital universe, and the environment. The American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry's COVID experience and its online system of risk identification and mitigation, as exemplified by the response to COVID, as well as its ongoing address of sedation safety and identification of potential risks in innovation and product design will demonstrate one dental specialty's approach to arming its providers and protecting patients in a dynamic care environment.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Identify your most important safety objectives as an organization or group
2. Assemble essential and applicable resources on safety
3. Understand the various ways to create a safety culture in your organization
4. Describe the breadth of safety issues in a dynamic care environment
5. Do a safety culture assessment of your organization, including a quantitative evaluation

Price:

• Members: $15
• Non-members: $30

Continuing Education

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CE Credits: 1.0
Educational Method: Lecture, Recorded, Self-instructional (self-study)
Location: Online
Publication Date: June 2023
Expiration Date: June 30, 2026

Speakers:

Joseph Castellano, DDS

Dr. Castellano is a board-certified pediatric dentist. He is in private practice in Laredo, Texas, and also serves as an assistant Clinical Professor for the Department of Developmental Dentistry at UTHSC-SA Dental School. He is a Past President of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry (AAPD) and is currently the chair of the AAPD's Safety Committee.

Disclosure: No relevant financial relationships to disclose