Nitrous Oxide Saturday

Many of our patients are quite anxious about seeking and receiving dental treatment. In fact, 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 inhalation  sedation.
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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.

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Topics include

• The basics of fear and anxiety in the dental office
• The utilisation of psychosedation & hypnotic techniques
• Review of basic life support
• The utilisation of oral sedation
• The utilisation of nitrous oxide sedation

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Learning objectives

• Gain an understanding of the key causes of fear and anxiety in our patients
• Understand basic psychosedation techniques and be able to apply them
• Revise basic life support
• Understand pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics, advantages/disadvantages, indications/contra-indications of oral sedation and feel confident utilising it in your practice

Dr Parker graduated with honours from University of QLD in 1985. He was a dental officer in the Defence Forces for 17 years. Resigned with rank of LtCol. Steve has completed post-graduate dental qualifications in oral surgery and sedation and pain control, along with qualifications in financial planning and law and is a registered lawyer in NSW.
He is a director on two boards -  ADANSW and Lakeview Private Hospital.

He is on many committees including the Dental Therapeutics committee and he is the Chair of the Conscious Sedation advisory panel to the Dental Board.

He is also an advisor for the next edition of the Therapeutics Guidelines – Oral and Dental (the clown book).

He owns the Wisdom Teeth Centre in North West Sydney which is a referral based oral surgery practice where he provides treatment under GA and all types of sedation.

He has given lectures for the ADA for over two decades on the topics of anxiety control, pain control and oral surgery.