Fall 2025 Continuing Education Programs for Dentists, Hygienists, and Assistants
Infection Control in Dentistry: Guidelines and Challenges
This comprehensive course describes the role of infection control in preventing disease development & provides scientific & clinical information on infection control protocols & current guidelines for dentistry. Personal protective equipment, instrument processing, plus surface & equipment asepsis are reviewed. Includes a discussion on wrongful infection control practices captured on images.
Course Objectives:
Upon Completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Describe the pathways by which microorganisms may spread in the dental office and become aware of the infection control procedures that can be used to prevent their spread.
- Review the latest CDC guidelines on infection control recommendations, and the importance of personal barriers, instrument processing, surface and equipment asepsis.
- Provide scientific and clinical information on infection control protocols and guidelines.
- Become aware of emerging infectious diseases and risks, while providing guidance on protective techniques and vaccine recommendations.
- Understand engineering and work practice controls plus standard operating procedures that can be used to prevent the spread of disease.
- Review the importance of personal barriers, instrument processing, surface and equipment asepsis.
*Satisfies the NJ CE requirement & also the NY coursework requirement on barrier precautions and infection control measures.
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $149.00 Credits: 7
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Time |
Video Conference |
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| Wed. Nov. 5, 2025 | 9am-4:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Mon. Dec. 8, 2025 | 9am-4:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
Spanish for Dental Professionals
This fun and interactive course will help you communicate with your Spanish speaking patients by learning basic Spanish dental terminology & pronunciation, in addition to performing clinical exchanges and inquiring about medical/dental histories in Spanish.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this program participants will be able to:
- Communicate more effectively with their Spanish speaking patients
- Be better equipped to explain treatment needs, inquire about medical and dental histories, and manage clinical exchanges with Spanish speaking patients
- Learn the basics of Spanish dental terminology, pronunciation, and grammar
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS,CDIPC
Tuition: $79.00 Credits: 3
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Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri. Nov. 7, 2025 | 11:30am-2:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Mon. Nov. 10, 2025 | 9am-12pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
Local Anesthesia Administration for Dental Professionals
This course will review the physiological aspects of how local anesthetics work. The types & relevant properties of local anesthetics, including dosage calculations & safe administration. Vasoconstrictor indications, cautions, limitations & interactions. Maxilla & mandibular anesthetic techniques. Plus local, regional, & systemic complications of local anesthetics; and a discussion on patient selection & risk assessment.
Course Objectives:
At the conclusion of the program, participants will be able to:
- Describe the pertinent anatomy critical to safe and effective local anesthesia administration
- Discuss the clinically relevant pharmacology of local anesthetic agents and vasoconstrictors
- List contra-indications to the administration of local anesthesia and to the use of vasoconstrictors
- Identify potential drug interactions and other adverse drug reactions seen with the use of local anesthesia and to the use of vasoconstrictors
- Discuss complications of local anesthesia administration and their management
- Recognize medical emergencies that occur in dental practice particularly those associated with local anesthesia
This course satisfies the dental hygienist renewal requirement for local anesthesia administration.
Speaker: Hillel D. Ephros, DMD, MD
Tuition: $97.00 Credits: 4
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri. Nov. 14, 2025 | 8am-12pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
All About Fluoride in Dentistry
This course will describe the clinical discovery of fluoride and its impact which is evident by its multiple uses: in the community, in clinical applications, and in the various fluoride containing home care products available. Fluoride's mechanism of action, its effects on plaque and bacterial metabolism, and a discussion on the various topical application methods and fluoride agents will all be discussed. (Sodium Fluoride, Stannous Fluoride, Acidulated Phosphate Fluoride, Silver Diamine Fluoride)(Gels, foams, varnishes, mouth rinses, dentifrices, etc.).
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course participants will be able to:
- Discuss the historical periods in the development of community water fluoridation
- Describe the role of community water fluoridation and the effect of multiple sources of fluoride on the decline of dental caries
- Describe the optimal fluoride concentration for drinking water for optimal caries protection and minimal risk of fluorosis
- Identify the fluoride compounds used to limit dental caries and discuss their effectiveness
- Describe topical fluoride application methods, how they work, and safety considerations
- Explain the mechanism of action of fluoridated varnishes and fluoride releasing dental restorative materials
- Summarize and review clinical fluoride procedures, self-applied fluorides, fluoride in mouth rinses and dentifrices.
- Discuss fluoride safety including varied levels of toxicity and emergency treatment
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $79.00 Credits: 3
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Wed. Oct. 29, 2025 | 9am-12pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Mon. Nov. 3, 2025 | 9am-12pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
Sealant Placement: What You Need to Know
This course will review the basic concepts of pit & fissure sealant placement and its role in preventive dentistry. Proper sealant placement techniques, types, steps, maintenance, plus placement indications or contraindications will be discussed.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this program participants will be able to:
- Understand proper sealant placement techniques, steps, and maintenance
- Understand the basic concepts of the clinical procedure and its role in preventive dentistry
- Identify various isolation recommendations so as to ensure proper sealant placement technique and retention
- Identify when sealant placement would be indicated and when it would be contraindicated
- Become familiar with different application methods
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $79.00 Credits: 3
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Wed. Oct. 29, 2025 | 12:30pm-3:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Mon. Nov. 3, 2025 | 12:30pm-3:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
OSHA Law, Regulations, and Recommendations
This comprehensive course will review OSHA's purpose, procedures, and steps to make your dental office OSHA compliant. The Hazard Communication Standard, the Bloodborne Pathogen Standard, Respiratory Protection, Emergency & Safety Procedures, & others will be discussed.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course participants will be able to:
- Organize and maintain a written hazard communication program with a chemical inventory list, SDSs and the globally harmonized labeling system.
- Implement & update the written exposure control plan in the dental practice to be in compliance with OSHA's Bloodborne Pathogen Standard.
- Follow & define standard (universal) precautions, contact precautions, airborne precautions, & transmission-based precautions.
- Utilize appropriate personal protective equipment for the task at hand while following the OSHA & CDC guidelines on usage and maintenance.
- Benefit from current CDC guidelines for infection control in dentistry.
- Review the administrative forms required by OSHA in the dental office.
- Assess and implement a post exposure control plan in the office, while maintaining proper records of occupational exposures.
- Understand the epidemiology of airborne (TB, influenza, Covid-19) and bloodborne (HIV, HCV, HBV) infectious diseases.
- Review fire and safety procedures for a dental office while maintaining an emergency plan of action.
- Keep a written record of in-office engineering and work practice controls.
- Define regulated waste and review proper disposal of biological and/or physical hazardous materials.
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $149.00 Credits: 7
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri. Oct. 31, 2025 | 9am-4:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Wed. Nov. 19, 2025 | 9am-4:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
Updates and Reminders of Infection Control in Dentistry
This course will review and update the latest CDC guidelines in dentistry including: Preventing transmission of bloodborne pathogens, hand hygiene considerations, personal protective equipment types and indications, general recommendations on sterilization and disinfection, sterilization monitoring, and dental unit waterline quality.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Review how microorganisms may spread in the dental office and how to take measures to prevent their spread
- Go over the latest CDC guidelines on infection control recommendations
- Review and update the latest information on dental infection control protocols and guidelines
- Have an understanding of the need for proper personal protective equipment, instrument processing, plus surface and equipment asepsis
- Review the latest recommendations on hand hygiene techniques and types
- Understand the importance of dental unit waterline quality and recommendations
*Satisfies the infection control CE requirements
Instructor: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $79.00 Credits: 3
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri. Nov. 28, 2025 | 9am-12pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
Halitosis: Research and Studies
This course reviews the research behind the most common oral and non-oral causes of bad breath. Learn the reason behind the variation in breath odors and their underlying cause. It also discusses strategies and/or tools to diagnose and manage halitosis.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course attendees will be able to:
- Identify the most common causes of oral and non-oral breath odors including the prevalence and statistical research behind them
- Understand the bacterial and metabolic involvement associated with bad breath production
- Recognize the various psychological and social issues involved with oral malodor
- Become aware of the various tools used in breath odor perception, evaluation, measurements, and diagnosis
- Recognize current strategies in halitosis management
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $140.00 Credits: 6
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri. Nov. 21, 2025 | 9am-3:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
Recognizing & Reporting Child Abuse in the Dental Office: Our Ethical Responsibility
This course is a review of the 4 basic types of child abuse in order to recognize and report the maltreatment of a child. It covers a review of child abuse laws and information on the most common types of childhood inflicted injuries. This course helps dental professionals become aware of the physical & behavioral signs of child maltreatment & neglect while working within their professional roles.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course participants should be able to:
- Assist in the prevention of child abuse by becoming aware of how to identify the victims of maltreatment.
- Identify the different types of child maltreatment and become aware of the behavioral, emotional, and physical signs that accompany them.
- Recognize the most common types of childhood inflicted injuries in order to report them.
- Recognize conditions that may be mistaken for child abuse.
- Have the knowledge of how to report child abuse and/or request a child abuse investigation.
- Become familiar with local child abuse laws.
Note: This course does not meet ACT 31 of 2014 Training Requirements for the State of PA.
This course satisfies the NJ State requirement on a professional ethics course.
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $54.00 Credits: 2
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri. Nov. 7, 2025 | 9am-11am |
Live Online via Zoom |
Viral Hepatitis in Dentistry
This course reviews lapses in infection control that resulted in hepatitis transmissions in healthcare settings. It also reviews the occupational risks, modes of transmission & CDC guidelines for viral hepatitis in Dentistry.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course participants will be able to:
- Understand the modes and risks of occupational transmission of viral hepatitis in dentistry
- Review the different types of hepatitis viruses and their modes of transmission
- Review the current guidelines issued by the CDC for the prevention of an occupational exposure to viral hepatitis B, C, & D
- Outline the prevalence and geographic distribution of viral hepatitis infections
- List clinical indicators of both acute & chronic hepatitis
- Discuss prevention techniques for each individual type of viral hepatitis
- Review infection control lapses in healthcare associated transmission cases of hepatitis B & C and discuss resulting outbreaks and what CDC guidelines are in place to prevent these outbreaks
- Acquire an overview of the different treatment options for people infected with specific types of viral hepatitis
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition: $79.00 Credits: 3
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri, Nov. 28, 2025 | 12:30pm-3:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Wed, Dec. 3, 2025 | 9am-12pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
Ethics in Dentistry
This course will review some of the ethical standards of conduct that are expected of all dental professionals. What should you do if an instrument that was not properly cleaned or sterilized was inadvertently used on a subsequent patient? What if you don't really know how to perform a treatment/service but your employer insists that you provide it?
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this program participants will be able to:
- Review some of the desired goals of ethics within the profession of dentistry
- Discuss the meaning and code of conduct pertaining to patient autonomy, nonmaleficence, and beneficence
- Review the concept that all dental professionals have a duty to treat their patients, their colleagues and the general public with fairness and without partiality
- iscuss some of the principles of veracity in reference to the representation of care and fees and also in disclosures, services provided, and credentials
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition for combined courses: $54.00 Combined Credits: 2
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Mon. Nov. 10, 2025 | 12:30pm-2:30pm |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Fri. Dec. 5, 2025 | 11:30am-1:30pm
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Live Online via Zoom |
Nitrous Oxide Monitoring of Dental Patients
This course satisfies the NJ requirements for renewal of permits issued to hygienists and dental assistants to monitor patients to whom nitrous oxide is administered. The anatomy of the respiratory system, the pharmacology of nitrous oxide, and the physiologic changes produced by nitrous oxide are reviewed. Indications and contraindications, deliver systems, storage and safety, scavenging systems and abuse potential will also be discussed. The role and limitations of the dental hygienist and the dental assistant during nitrous oxide administration will also be emphasized.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course participants should be able to:
- Identify patient for whom nitrous oxide is contraindicated
- Discuss the way nitrous oxide interacts with blood and body tissues
- Describe the difference between nitrous oxide and oxygen when stored in tanks
- List safety features built into nitrous oxide and oxygen delivery systems used in dentistry
- Identify functions permitted and those prohibited to hygienists and assistants monitoring patients receiving Nitrous Oxide/Oxygen inhalation under the supervision of a dentist in New Jersey
Speaker: Hillel Ephros, DMD, MD
Tuition: $79.00 Credits: 3
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Fri. Dec. 5, 2025 | 8am-11am |
Live Online via Zoom |
Emergency Use Of Medical Oxygen In The Dental Office
Many dental offices have oxygen tanks for use during a medical emergency. This course reviews the components, the safety precautions, and the assembly of a portable medical oxygen delivery system. How to assess for signs & symptoms of hypoxia and how to use a pulse oximeter will be discussed. Flow rates, oxygen concentration, and use of common oxygen deficiency delivery devices such as, low-flow cannula, simple face mask, non-rebreather mask, CPR mask with oxygen inlet, & bag mask with reservoir bag will be reviewed.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this program participants will be able to:
- Review how to give medical oxygen in an emergency to an adult patient using various oxygen delivery devices such as a low-flow cannula, a simple face mask, a non-rebreather mask, a CPR mask, and a bag-mask device
- Discuss the observable signs & symptoms of hypoxia and considerations on the use of a pulse oximeter
- Review some safety precautions or do's and do nots of medical oxygen in the dental office
- Review the components and how to assemble & disassemble a portable medical oxygen delivery system
Speaker: Virginia Lopez, RDH, BS, CDIPC
Tuition for combined courses: $54.00 Combined Credits: 2
Date |
Time |
Video Conference |
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| Wed. Nov. 12, 2025 | 9am-11am |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Mon. Nov. 24, 2025 | 9am-11am |
Live Online via Zoom |
| Fri. Dec. 12, 2025 | 9am-11am |
Live Online via Zoom |
In-Office Training
Private in-office courses available. Groups of four or more accepted Monday through Friday. We will go to your office in-person or online via Zoom and train your staff on:
- OSHA Course - 3 Credits - $79/person
- Medical Emergencies - 3 Credits - $79/person
- Spanish for Dental Professionals - 3 Credits - $79/person
- Infection Control Course - 3 Credits - $79/person
- CPR for Healthcare Providers - 4 Credits - $97/person
- First Aid- 3 Credits - $79/person
In-Office courses are available in New Jersey and in certain areas of New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Delaware, depending on distance and number of attendees. Maryland, Massachussetts, and longer distances requires groups of 12 or more.
*Fees for travel expenses will apply for in-person in-office training and is dependent on distance. No travel fee if the course is scheduled via Zoom.
Contact us for a quote, info, and availability. (973) 777-9600 or e-Mail: support@Dent-EdSolutions.com
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