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.
Originally born and raised in Toronto Canada, Najia Usman graduated from SUNY Buffalo in 1995 with her D.D.S. After completing a 1 year general practice residency at the OHSU, Portland, Oregon in 2002. She became a Diplomate of the American Board of Endodontics in 2009.
Dr. Usman has been in Private Practice since 2002 having started her own private practice Visage Endodontics. Though she practices full scope endodontics, she has cultivated an interest in the endodontic management in trauma, pediatrics and resorptive Lesions. She has organized and lectured in dental trauma symposiums. She has lectured and clinically taught, dental students, endodontic and pediatric residents. She holds a position as clinical associate instructor at CWRU SODM. 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 been heavily involved in organized dentistry sitting and chairing the Membership Commitee and serving two terms on the Annual Session Commitee. She is a former executive board member of the ODA holding the 2 year position of Secretary and has been an ADA delegate for 6 years and was recently appointed to a 4 year position on the Council of Dental Examination and Licensure. She has served as President of the Ohio Association of Endodontists and is currently serving on the American Association of Endodontics Public and Professional Relations Council. She also has a quarterly opinion-ed column for the past ten years in The ODA Today "the Happy Dentist".
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.