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Persons With Intellectual, Physical and Developmental Disabilities: The Role of Dental Education in Policy, Education and Actions
Recorded On: 09/25/2024
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This presentation will discuss the role of oral health care providers in advocacy, specifically regarding conditions and treatments for persons with disabilities. Looking at the management of dental caries, this presentation will focus on the therapies needed to provide optimal care for persons with disabilities, and the social, economic and practice limitations that can come with it.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify the role of health facilitators/community health workers in assuring optimum oral health for individuals with disabilities.
- Explore the role of telehealth in assuring optimum health for individuals with disabilities.
- Summarize evidence-based caries management protocols.
- Examine the role of evidence-based caries management paradigms in assuring optimum health for individuals with disabilities.
- Explore how State Practice Acts may impede optimum health for individuals with disabilities.
Original Release Date: September 25, 2024
Expiration Date: September 25, 2027
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Disclaimer: The purpose of this presentation is to educate and to inform. This is not a substitute for professional care and is not intended for use for the diagnosis or treatment of individual conditions. Guests on this presentation express their own experience, opinions and conclusions. Guest statements do not express the viewpoint of ADEA. The mention of any product, service, organization, activity or therapy should not be construed as an ADEA endorsement.
CE Information
The American Dental Education Association is an ADA CERP Recognized Provider.
An evaluation form is available to participants after the conclusion of the live webinar. To earn continuing education (CE) credit for participation in the webinar, the online evaluation must be completed in full by September 25, 2027. After completing the evaluation, webinar participants can print and save the CE Verification Form.
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The American Dental Education Association designates this activity for 1.00 continuing education credit.
All speakers agree that neither they nor members of their immediate family have any financial relationships with commercial entities that may be relevant to their presentation.
Mark S. Wolff, D.D.S., PhD.
Morton Amsterdam Dean
University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine
Dr. Mark S. Wolff is the Morton Amsterdam Dean of the University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine and a Professor in the Department of Preventative and Restorative Dentistry. Formerly he was a Professor and Chair of the Department of Cariology and Comprehensive Care and Associate Dean for Pre-doctoral Clinical Education and Associate Dean for Development and Alumni Relations at the New York University College of Dentistry. He has designed, developed, and implemented an extensive curriculum in caries risk assessment and has designed dental information systems to assist dental schools in monitoring the risk of the entire dental patient population. Dr. Wolff has completed numerous national and international research and oral health assessment programs. Dr. Wolff started his dental career as a private practitioner, creating a family practice that focused on the medically compromised and disabled patients of all ages. He has been a lifelong advocate and educator for individuals with physical, intellectual and developmental disabilities through the lifespan.
Dr. Wolff received his DDS degree and PhD in Oral Biology and Pathology from Stony Brook University. He has served as the principal or co-principal investigator on multiple bench top and clinical research projects investigating dental caries, novel re-mineralizing agents, dental erosion, periodontal disease, dental materials and dentinal hypersensitivity. He has co-authored over 100 scientific papers, text chapters and edited multiple textbooks. Dr. Wolff lectures world-wide and is a frequent consultant to industry. He has been the principal or co-principal investigator on more than $9.0 million in industrial and National Institute of Health funded research. Prior to joining the NYU College of Dentistry in 2005, he served as Associate Dean at Stony Brook University School of Dental Medicine, where he helped develop and implement the first completely computerized dental record. Under his leadership, Penn Dental Medicine implemented extensive clinical programs of caries and health risk assessments, minimal intervention dentistry, tobacco cessation, evidence based dental education, community-based dentistry and dental care for all patients through the life-cycle. He frequently serves as a media source for information on consumer issues and hosted an annual radio series on dental issues on satellite radio.
Speaker receives compensation from the Colgate-Palmolive Company for activities, consulting and speaking engagements, that are not related his responsibilities to University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine.
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