The Weed of Today is Not Your Momma's Weed AND Clues to Your Patients' Health: Look in Their Bag of Pills 2020

The Weed of Today is Not Your Momma's Weed AND Clues to Your Patients' Health: Look in Their Bag of Pills is organized by Delaware State Dental Society (DSDS) and will be held on Oct 23, 2020 at Hilton Wilmington/Christiana, Newark, Delaware, United States of America. This course has been approved for a maximum of 6 CE Credits.

THE WEED OF TODAY IS NOT YOUR MOMMA'S WEED:
This lecture will be devoted to marijuana. Thirty-two states have legalized marijuana for medical use. Ten states and the District of Columbia have legalized marijuana for recreational purposes. Inevitably, some of these marijuana users will be treated by the dentist or hygienist. What is it? Does it have any medicinal use? Is marijuana addicting? What are the effects of marijuana on driving ability? What are the effects of marijuana on intellectual development? What are "shatter," "wax," "dab," or "scat," and how do they differ? Is edible marijuana as effective as smoking or vaping? This presentation will discuss some of the concerns about marijuana use/abuse, and its bearing on dental treatment.

Course Objectives:
• The physical characteristics of marijuana
• The evidence supporting medicinal uses
• Differences among edible, vaping, and smoking marijuana
• The meaning of shatter, dab, wax, and scat
• Impact of patient use of marijuana on dental treatment

CLUES TO YOUR PATIENTS' HEALTH: LOOK IN THEIR BAG OF PILLS:
Your patients are living longer thanks to their medications, but many of the physician-prescribed medications used by your patients have dental implications and side effects affecting your treatment plan. This presentation includes the indications, contraindications, and side effects of the most common physician-prescribed medications. Many of these medications were not approved when you took your pharmacology course in dental school. These medications represent one third of all prescriptions taken by your dental patients, and familiarity with these drugs will provide the dental practitioner with a better appreciation for the health profile of your dental patient.

Course Objectives:
• Prescription, OTC medications, and foods that could adversely interact with dental drugs
• Why your patient is taking their medications
• What oral side effects may be caused by these medications
• When not to prescribe NSAIDs