Pain & Anxiety Control

Catalog description

This course combines both didactic and clinical components to help students acquire an understanding of pain and the principles of pain control as related to the clinical treatment of dental patients. Evaluation of the physical-mental emotional status of the patient and the determination on of the proper pain control technique and its correlation with procedures to be performed are integrated with an understanding of advanced pain and anxiety-control modalities. Included in this course is a series of in-depth lectures covering the spectrum of basic and advanced pain control techniques. Following completion of this course, the student should be able to consistently meet the criteria of the course objectives.