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Improving Oral Health Using Teledentistry-Enabled Oral Health Systems
July 23 @ 5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Course Summary:
Modern dental and teledentistry technology has created significant opportunities for dental care systems and providers to increase their reach and improve population oral health. This program will described these advancements, how they work, and strategies for adoption.
Learning Objectives:
- Describe modern dental and teledentistry technology advancements
- Discuss opportunities for dental care systems and providers to increase their reach and improve population oral health using these technologies
- Explain these advancements, how they work, and strategies for adoption.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Paul Glassman is the Associate Dean for Research and Community Engagement at the College of Dental Medicine at California Northstate University in Elk Grove, CA and Professor Emeritus at the University of the Pacific, Arthur A. Dugoni, School of Dentistry in San Francisco, CA. He has served on many national panels including the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM) Committee on Oral Health Access to Services which produced the IOM report on Improving Access to Oral Health Care for Vulnerable and Underserved Populations.
Dr. Glassman has had many years of dental practice experience treating patients with complex conditions and has published and lectured extensively in the areas of Hospital Dentistry, Dentistry for Patients with Special Needs, Dentistry for Individuals with Medical Disabilities, Dentistry for Patients with Dental Fear, Geriatric Dentistry, and Oral Health Systems reform. He has a long career working with special populations in a variety of practice and community settings. Dr. Glassman has been PI or Co-PI on over $32 million in grants and contracts over the last 30 years devoted to community-service demonstration and research programs designed to improve oral health for people with disabilities and other underserved populations.
Dr. Glassman is a pioneer and has led the national movement to improve oral health using telehealth-connected teams and Virtual Dental Homes.
Finally Dr. Glassman has been prominent in advocacy efforts on a state and national level for health system reform to improve oral health systems for a wide variety of underserved groups.
Earn 1.5 continuing dental education credits with this course