The UMSOD Office of Continuing Education offers nearly 400 hours of continuing dental education courses each year. We are dedicated to lifelong learning and want to help you achieve your goals. Check this site often, as more courses are added frequently.

Have a question? Email umsodce@umaryland.edu or call 410-706-2282. We hope to see you at an upcoming course.

• Nitrous Oxide Administration and Monitoring for the Dental Hygienist
  The Maryland State Board of Dental Examiners (MSBDE) adopted rules and regulations which allow properly-trained registered dental hygienists to monitor and administer nitrous oxide sedation during dental related procedures. This course fulfills MSBDE educational requirements for registered dental hygienists.

• Treating The Complex Prosthodontic Patient
  This presentation will include many clinical examples of situations, where the dentist is faced with an unhappy patient due to existing conditions or complications from prior treatment. 
  
  
• Ridge Preservation for Esthetics, Prosthetics and Implant Placement
  This workshop will provide an understanding of implant site development principles and bone grafting clinical protocols.
  
  
• Cone Beam CT Imaging and Principles: Part I Basic Training
  This course provides a detailed introduction to the cone beam CT. 
  
  
• Cone Beam CT Imaging and Principles: Part II Advanced Basic Training
  This 12-hour course is a continuation of Part 1. 

• Combined Inhalation-Enteral Conscious Sedation | Update of Pharmacology and Review of Airway Management and Emergencies
  This two-day, 12-credit-hour course meets the requirements for renewal of a Class 1 permit for the use of non-parenteral anesthetic technique to attain the level of moderate sedation in adult dental patients.
• Combined Inhalation-Enteral Conscious Sedation for the Adult Dental Patient
  This intensive, 24-hour course offers training in the safe and effective use of combined inhalation- enteral conscious sedation in the adult dental patient.
• Anterior/Posterior Composite Artistry
  Direct anterior and posterior composite restorations are a day to day treatment modality.  This course will take the clinician to the next level in the aesthetic use of these materials.
• Local Anesthesia for Dental Professionals
  Through a combination of lecture and hands-on lab work, partcipants will gain skills in the implementation of local anesthesia.  This course will provide the licensed dental hygienist with initial didactic and clinical laboratory components necessary to perform local anesthesia.
• Dentists and Hygienists Treating Patients with Anxiety and Special Needs
  This participation course will give attendees the necessary knowledge and tools to treat difficult or otherwise unmanageable patients. 

• A Potpourri Of Interdisciplinary Orthodontics POSTPONED
  This program will provide a review of the current proposed forms of treatment for cases missing anterior and posterior teeth, with emphasis on maxillary lateral incisors. Clinical situations will be used to illustrate the decision process on treating mutilated dentition.
  
  

• CDT Coding Reimbursement-2020 POSTPONED
  This CDT 2020 coding/reimbursement workshop is provided with the most accurate and up to date information by a current dental director of a dental benefits company. The CDT code review will use actual claims. Practice management tips will include narratives for claim submission, record keeping that will support the claims and when and how to adjust practice fees.

• Nitrous Oxide Administration and Monitoring for the Dental Hygienist POSTPONED
  The Maryland State Board of Dental Examiners (MSBDE) adopted rules and regulations which allow properly-trained registered dental hygienists to monitor and administer nitrous oxide sedation during dental related procedures. This course fulfills MSBDE educational requirements for registered dental hygienists.
• Infection Control Is Not Optional | Proper Pharmacologic Prescribing and Disposal | The Scope of Abuse
  Recent breaches in infection control in dental offices in CO, OK, PA and NJ has become a cause of concern for dental consumers. Is it safe to go to the dentist? The answer is yes; when dental practitioners are compliant with recommended infection control practices.
• Review of Primary Tooth Vital and New Non-Vital Pulp Therapy Guidelines For UMSOD Pediatric Alumni Only
  The 2-hour virtual course will review the new Primary Tooth Pulp Therapy Decision Tree that will be adopted by the AAPD in May. 
• Principles of Panoramic Radiology and Diagnosis  
  This online course will provide a review of the principles of panoramic radiology including the early development of panoramic radiology as well as common panoramic imaging errors.
• Calamity, Catastrophe and COVID-19
  Major life events (such as death, divorce, and job loss) and even conflict can create feelings of shock, grief and leave us struggling to cope. These events have a significant effect on the dental team and our patients.

• NEW UMSOD Implantology Continuum Course - Limited to 8 Participants
  This two-year program is designed to impart to participants the knowledge; skill set and confidence needed to deliver one of the most highly sought services in dentistry today.

• A Virtual Review Of Nitrous Oxide Inhalation Sedation 
  This 2-hour course will follow the ADA guidelines for teaching Nitrous Oxide. It will however cover the objectives in an abridged format focusing on what is important in clinical practice and how to be safe. It will include background, history, patient evaluation, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, equipment setup and hazards. The hands-on component will be conducted via demonstration videos.

• Management of Emergencies in the Dental Office 
  Review of emergency scenarios, including: Laryngospasm, foreign body airway obstruction, emesis, aspiration, allergic reaction, anaphylaxis, asthma, bronchospasm, angina, bradycardia, tachycardia, ventricular fibrillation, cardiac arrest, hypotension, hypertension, seizure, syncope, hypoxemia, apnea, airway/operatory fire, sedation and local anesthetic overdose, adrenal insufficiency, hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia.
  
  
• Proper Pharmacologic Prescribing and Disposal for Dental Practitioners
  Every dentist seeking renewal must complete a two-hour board-approved course on proper prescribing and disposal of prescription drugs. Dentists who do not prescribe prescription drugs are not exempt. For dentists holding drug dispensing permits, the course may not be taken to fulfill the continuing education requirements contained in SB 603, Chapter 267, Laws of Maryland 2012. This course fulfills the new MSBDE (COMAR 10.44.22) requirement for relicensure.

• Infection Control In The Era of COVID-19: What Dental Practitioners Need to Know
  The cluster of severe pneumonia cases caused by a novel coronavirus first reported in Wuhan, China in December of 2019 has now circled the globe. To date more than millions cases have been reported.  The cause of these infections was shortly identified as a novel of coronavirus similar to the SARS coronavirus that emerged in 2003. This course fulfills CDE requirements for infection control and requirements for annual OSHA training.

• Abuse: The Regulations, and the Impact of COVID-19
  The program reviews:  The Maryland regulations regarding abuse and neglect. The dramatic increase in the use of alcohol and drugs, resulting in escalating cases of abuse during the COVID-19 pandemic. The signs, symptoms and oral manifestations of domestic abuse; as well as the timeframe, hotlines and required reporting forms are presented. Screening questions are provided to enable practitioners to evaluate clients suspected or identified as suffering from abuse. This situation reinforces our legal and ethical responsibilities to our patients, to remain vigilant, and report suspected or identified cases of abuse and neglect.

• Infection Control In The Era of COVID-19: What Dental Practitioners Need to Know | Proper Pharmacologic Prescribing and Disposal | Abuse: The Regulations, and the Impact of COVID-19
  Three course package discount.