NEW PROGRAM
Spring 2025 | April 12 – April 14, 2025
3-Days (Saturday – Monday)
In this Continuing Education course, practical tips will be discussed for managing common clinical scenarios in complex older adults, with a focus on skills that can be used in private practice. This three day course will provide you practical, up to date, and clinically relevant information in Geriatric Dentistry with two days of lectures at UBC and a half day observing clinical activity in a dental clinic, located at a long-term care facility in downtown Vancouver.
UBC Faculty
- Dr. Nicholas Tong, BHSc, DDS, MSc
- Dr. Chris Wyatt, BSc, DMD, Dip Pros
Topics
- Key concepts in geriatric medicine and its relevance to dentistry and oral health, frailty and its impact on oral health
- Medical risk assessment in older adults
- Dementia friendly dentistry
- Management of common ethical and legal issues
- Safe prescribing for older adults
- Difficult extractions
- Patient management and managing difficult behaviours
- Safe patient transfer techniques
- Designing and delivering dental services for long term care facility residents and much more!
Location
UBC for lectures and a long term care facility in Vancouver for clinical observation.