April 27, 2024          9:00 AM – 12:00 PM (Livestream Online Only)

Description

In 2023, the Canadian Dental Regulatory Authorities Federation approved recognition of dental anesthesia as a specialty of dentistry in Canada. This course will provide a brief overview of the process involved in its establishment as a specialty and will demonstrate how it meets the published criteria for this status. It will report on the results of studies demonstrating the need and demand for sedation and general anesthesia and describe the extent to which many Canadians are interested in these services for their own dentistry. This course will review how recognition of dental anesthesia as a specialty provides benefits for the public and the profession, and answer the questions:

• What is the scope of practice of a dentist anesthesiologist?
• What are the steps required to become this specialist?
• Where does a dentist obtain specialty training?

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, the participant will be able to:

• Articulate the need and demand for dental anesthesia services.
• Explain the benefits for the public and the profession of having this as a specialty.
• Describe the scope of practice of a dentist anesthesiologist.
• Describe the steps in becoming this specialist.

Speaker (s)

Daniel Haas, DDS, PhD, FRCD(C)  

Daniel Haas, DDS, PhD, FRCD(C), is a Professor at the University of Toronto Faculty of Dentistry. He was Dean at this school from 2012 – 2022, and prior to that was head of its graduate specialty program in dental anaesthesia from 1998 – 2012. He has a cross-appointment with the Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Medicine.

His scholarship has been recognized internationally with the receipt of a number of major awards: these include the International Association for Dental Research Distinguished Scientist Award for Pharmacology research in 2004; the Heidbrink Award from the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology in 2007; the Leonard Monheim Award of the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists in 2010; and the Horace Wells Award, the highest recognition awarded by the International Federation of Dental Anesthesiology Societies in 2018. He has been the only Canadian to win each of these 4 awards.

In 2022, Professor Haas received the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry Distinguished Service Award. He is also the recipient of a number of teaching awards including: 17 Dental Students’ Society Teaching Awards; the A. Bruce Hord Master Teacher Award (1991 and 2000); and the W.W. Wood Award for Excellence in Dental Education (2005).

Dr. Haas has also played an active role with a number of dental organizations, including the National Dental Examining Board of Canada, the Association of Canadian Faculties of Dentistry, the Royal College of Dentists of Canada, and the American Society of Dentist Anesthesiologists.

 

Study Credits

This course provides up to 3 hours of Continuing Dental Education (CDE) Credits.

Dr. Gerald Niznick College of Dentistry, University of Manitoba Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit. Approval does not imply acceptance by any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement. The current term of approval extends from July 1, 2022 to June 30, 2026. Provider ID# 214210. Subject Code 340.