SP-18 The Pediatric Endodontic Patient: Being Proactive Using Innovative and Conservative Pulpal Therapeutic Techniques After Trauma and Gross Caries
CE Hours: 0.75
Description: Participants will gain knowledge on concrete ways to engage the entire team in improving the patient experience particularly with patients who present with distress, pain, anxiety and/or previous traumatic dental experiences. The content describes the specific behaviors required for exceptional communication with patients. The behaviors are evidence-based and follow the flow of the appointment beginning with scheduling, through clinical treatment and post operative care. Examples include building skills to make the connection and engage patients, ways to listen carefully, tools on how to deescalate difficult situations and specific tactics for explaining things in a way that is easily understood.
Learning Objectives:
- Use diagnostic information to establish a clinical diagnosis to appropriately treat the immature apex case
- Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the various materials used for regenerative endodontics
- Evaluate the need for involving other specialists for long range planning such as oral maxillofacial surgeons, periodontists, prosthodontists and orthodontists
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Najia Usman, D.D.S.
Najia Usman graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 1995 with her D.D.S. After completing a 1 year general practice residency at the Cleveland Clinic she furthered her interest in endodontics by completing a 2 year endodontic residency at Oregon Health and Sciences University, Portland, Oregon in 2002. She was awarded her Diplomate Status by the American Board of Endodontics in 2009 and recertified in 2019. Dr. Usman has been in Private Practice since 2002. Though she practices full scope endodontics, she has cultivated an interest in the endodontic management in trauma, pediatrics and management of resorptive lesions. She has organized and lectured in dental trauma symposiums. She has lectured and clinically taught, dental students, endodontic and pediatric residents at Case Western School of Dental Medicine and Rainbow Babies University Hospital as a Clinical Assistant Professor. She has lectured nationally and locally to study clubs on topics such as “Endo-Perio”, “Atypical Facial Pain”, “Regenerative Endodontics” and “Pulpal injuries after Oro-Facial Trauma”. She has lectured internationally on the topic of Regenerative Endodontics In Dammam, Saudi Arabia and Agha Khan University, in Karachi Pakistan and virtually at the Saudi International Dental Conference 2021. Her trauma lecture was also apart of the virtual CE offerings of the Ohio Dental Association Annual Session 2021. Her study “The influence of instrument size on debridement” was published in the Journal of Endodontics (Feb 2004, vol 30, 110-112). She is very active in organized dentistry and her specialty organization at the local, state and national level servicing on the AAE Public and Professional Relations Committee and the ADA Council on Dental Education and Licensure. Presently she is president for the Ohio Association of Endodontists.
Speaker Disclosure
I declare that I have no proprietary, financial, or other personal interest of any nature or kind in any product, service, course, and/or company, or in any firm beneficially associated therewith, that will be discussed or considered during the proposed presentation.
