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2025 Participation Series:
April 4
Successfully Treating All Patients:
Oral Pain Management
Friday, April 4, 2025
8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Maritime Conference Center
Building 3 | Room A307
692 Maritime Blvd| Linthicum Heights
Lunch is provided
This immersive seminar will dissect the causes of fear, with practical solutions to every scenario so that no one is deprived of dental care for those reasons. We will differentiate etiology of known vs unknown fears, and address each one in a practical and comprehensive manner. We will describe and demonstrate the use of alternatives to local anesthesia, nitrous oxide laughing gas, oral sedation drugs, IV and IM injections, surgical centers, operating room general anesthesia, and more. We will discuss dental care at alternate facilities, including private homes, nursing homes, hospice, institutions, surgical centers, hospital operating rooms, and out in the field. No one should be denied dental care because of fear. There are practical solutions available…always.
This participation program includes: oral conscious sedation, pharmacology drugs and reversal agents, nitrous oxide, applying facial acupressure points to open patient’s mouth, behavior modification, Autism triggers, Kovanase anesthetic, general dentistry via IV MAC or general anesthesia in the OR, and more.
Course Objectives:
Participants in this course will gain knowledge in the following areas:
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Appreciate how personally gratifying and professionally rewarding it can be to treat anxious, medically compromised, mentally challenged, and special-needs patients.
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Become familiar with clinical techniques for performing standard procedures on difficult, compromised, or otherwise unmanageable patients of all ages and medical or mental conditions, knowing there is a solution to every obstacle in treating them.
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Be able to implement protocols for using drugs for office oral conscious sedation, reversal agents, nitrous oxide laughing gas, acupressure points to open the mouth of uncooperative patients and keep them open, avoid triggers for adverse behavior in patients with Autism and other disorders.
AGD 200 Orofacial Pain
CE Credit: 8 or 16 Lecture/Participation
with Harvey Levy, DMD, MAGD, FACD, FICD
About our Speaker:
Dr. Harvey Levy practices general and hospital dentistry in Frederick, Maryland, where he emphasizes comprehensive dental care for individuals with anxiety or special needs. He graduated from Tufts Dental in 1974, GPR at Eastman Dental Center in 1976, and taught full time at Univ Penn GPR and was on the Dean's faculty at UMSOD. Dr. Levy has earned Mastership and six Lifelong Learning Service Recognitions by the Academy of General Dentistry along with eleven fellowships, five diplomate certificates, and board certification in Integrative Medicine. His work with anxious patients has earned him the AGD Humanitarian Award, the ADA Access to Care Award, the Maryland Governor’s Doctor of the Year Award, the Maryland State Dental Association’s Inaugural Humanitarian Award, Morgan State Public Health Award, Special Care Dentistry’s Saul Kamen Award, Tufts University Alumni Distinguished Achievements Award, and the honor of running the 2002 Olympic Torch. He has written and lectured extensively on dental care for patients with high anxiety and special-needs. Dr. Levy is also a martial arts master, holding nineteen black belts, and is a three time inductee into the US Martial Arts Hall of Fame.