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Dental Healthcare Personnel Continuing Education

Current opportunities for continuing education (CE) credits and helpful reading materials regarding important topics.
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Caring for Individuals with Disabilities

Training modules offered by: Institute on Disability

This training will benefit dental healthcare personnel to be able to describe disparities in health experienced by people with disabilities, to recognize barriers to accessing healthcare and preventive services, and to acquire strategies and approaches to provide disability-competent and responsive care.

Courses (Up to 1.0 CE credits at no cost) 

  • Module 1: Responsive Practice: Providing Health Care & Screenings to Individuals with Disabilities. This module is approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, for 1.0 dental contact hours.

Tobacco Cessation Training Modules

Training modules offered by: Quitlogix Education 

These trainings will benefit anyone who serves people who use commercial tobacco. 

Courses (Up to 2.0 CE credits at no cost) 

  • Implementing A Brief Intervention For Tobacco In Clinical Settings - CDE Credit: The module is approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, for 1.0 dental contact hours. 

  • Special Topics For Tobacco Cessation- CDE Credit: The module is approved by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, for 1.0 dental contact hours. 

Massachusetts Tobacco Cessation and Prevention Program (MTCP) 

MTCP is a statewide public health program focused on comprehensive approaches to reduce tobacco and nicotine use. Our mission is to reduce the health and economic burden of tobacco use by preventing young people from starting to use tobacco and nicotine products, helping current tobacco and nicotine users to quit, protecting children and adults from secondhand smoke, and identifying and eliminating tobacco-related disparities. 

Infection Control and Disease Prevention

Infection Prevention and Control in Dental Settings | CDC 

Training modules offered by: CDC's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

A web-based, interactive, self-paced training designed to help increase adherence with established infection prevention and control guidelines among dental healthcare personnel. 

Courses (Up to 3.0 CE credits at no cost) 

  • Module 1: Foundations of Infection Prevention and Control introduces infection prevention and control for dental settings, reviews existing guidelines, recommendations, and resources, and describes the fundamentals of evaluating dental infection prevention programs. 

  • Module 2: Protecting Patients, Protecting Yourself reviews hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette, sharps safety, and safe injection practices. 

  • Module 3: Sterilization, Disinfection, and the Dental Environment reviews the sterilization process, environmental infection prevention and control guidelines, and dental unit water line safety. 

Silver Diamine Fluoride – Training for Dental Healthcare Personnel

Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) Webinar recording  

Silver Diamine Fluoride (SDF) webinar FAQs 

Vaccines

Dental providers as vaccinators 

Helpful Resources

Extensive resources on a wide variety of topics are also available from these groups below, certain resources may require membership.  

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