17 Monash Avenue, Nedlands
How to manage anxious patients
Many of our patients are quite anxious about seeking and receiving dental treatment. It may lead to some people avoiding dental care completely until excruciating pain gives them no choice. Dentists should be able to provide alternatives to control a patient’s anxiety and to assist them to receive treatment.
This course will cover a spectrum of anxiety-relieving alternatives. It will give the caring dentist a selection of anxiolytic techniques that can be offered to their patients including psychosedation, oral sedation and nitrous oxide sedation.
All participants will have the opportunity to administer and experience the full range of effects of relative analgesia using nitrous oxide-oxygen, and, after completing the course, will feel confident in setting up and administering this agent.
Topics include:
o Relevant pharmacology, administration and monitoring
o Indications/contraindications
o Managing complications
o Relevant pharmacology, administration and monitoring
o Indications/contraindications
o Managing complications
Learning objectives:
Dr Parker has completed post-graduate diplomas in both oral surgery (Otago University 1997) and sedation and pain control (University of Sydney 2000). He has also completed financial planning and legal qualifications. After completing fifteen years in the Defence Forces, Steven now operates a referral based oral surgery practice in North West Sydney where he provides treatment under General Anaesthesia, Intra-venous sedation, Inhalation sedation and Local Anaesthesia. He also provides IV sedation services to Dental Practices for nervous and phobic patients.
Steven has been involved in post-graduate training and continuing education for over twenty years and has lectured widely throughout Australia and overseas. He also gives practical courses on Advanced Local Anaesthesia and Pain Control in the Dental Office and Everyday Oral Surgery for General Practitioners.
Dr Parker is a director on the Board of Lakeview Private Hospital and is the Oral Surgery/Dental representative on the Medical Advisory Committee of that hospital. He is also a director on the board of ADA NSW. He is also a member of several committees including the ADA Dental Therapeutics Committee and is the Chair of the Dental Board’s Conscious Sedation Advisory Panel.
