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June 12-14, 2025

Bar Harbor, ME

The 2025 Annual Convention, Your Practice Palate: Essential Resources for Every Dentist, is the must-attend event of the year for dental professionals! This three-day convention offers the latest insights, practical tools, and essential strategies to elevate your practice.

Course: In Case of Emergency, Break Glass (For Practice Owners)

Speaker: Jim Kachmar, Doctors Disability Specialists and Mary Fisher-Day

Date: Friday, September 12, 2025

Time: 10:00am - 11:30am

Location: Virtual

*This webinar is not eligible for CEs

About: After attending this webinar, practice owners will understand various risks and how to mitigate and address them. Participants will also learn ways to prevent these risks from happening in the first place.

Learning objectives:

• Participants will learn about specific risks to their practice, including death and disability.
• Participants will learn ways to mitigate these risks, including purchasing insurance, utilizing mutual contracts between neighboring dentists to fill in and planning for the unexpected.

Course: Treating Between the Lines: Understanding Rx and Illicit Drug Abuse

Speaker: Dr. Ronnie Brown

Date: Friday, October 17, 2025

Location: Zoom / Webinar link to be provided 24hrs prior to start of course

Substance abuse is at an all-time “high” in this country with an estimated 1 out of every 10 Americans addicted to prescription or illicit drugs. As dental professionals, we must awaken to the reality that many of our patients have substance-use disorders and that our examination findings of advanced caries, severe hyposalivation, and poor plaque control are often the effects of depressant, stimulant, and opioid abuse. Learn how to recognize the clues of substance abuse from a routine dental examination, discuss your concerns and suspicions with patients, develop and deliver safe and effective dental treatment, and manage pain with non-opioid medications.

*Note: Course content does not include marijuana

Learning Objectives

• How to identify the three categories of drugs (opioids, depressants, and stimulants) most abused by patients.
• How to recognize the physical, behavioral, and oral clues of substance misuse during a routine dental examination.
• How to discuss substance misuse with patients using motivational-interviewing techniques. - Office policies that safeguard both patients and practices.
• Evidence-based practices for managing dental pain with non-addictive analgesics.
• How to develop treatment plans, using a caries-risk assessment for patients with substance-use disorders.

Style: Lecture

Cost: $110.00 - $220.00

Intended Audience: G, S, DH, DA, DL, OP

Conflict of Interest / Financial Disclosure: N/A

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Course: Antibiotic Stewardship

Speaker: Dr. Erinne Kennedy

Date: November 7, 2025

Location: Zoom

Maine law requires that certain professionals, including licensed health professionals, who suspect child abuse and neglect and who suspect abuse, neglect or exploitation of an incapacitated or dependent adult report to the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). Maine law also requires that certain professionals, including licensed health professionals, obtain mandated reporter training once every four years.

Please note that the modules provided by the State of Maine DHHS satisfy the requirements for licensure.

UMA Bangor Dental Health Programs offer continuing education courses on trending topics for dentists, dental assistants, dental hygienists, and Expanded Functions Dental Assistants (EFDAs) on an ongoing basis.

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