The Mile High City is full of mile-high dental haters who like roughly 90 million Americans delay or avoid going to a dentist altogether because of fear, anxiety and unpleasant memories of exams past.
But next week a group of dentists from Denver and the surrounding area will participate in a three-day course designed to help them serve anxious patients safely, effectively and without all the emotional ‘baggage’ and pain that one normally associates with dental visits.
The training will be conducted by DOCS Education, a Seattle-based company that is the world’s leading educator of sedation dental health professionals. The company’s course, “Oral Sedation Dentistry,” will be presented at the DoubleTree Hotel Denver to a sold out classroom of area dentists and their team members.
The Denver class comes almost 10 years to the day since the founding of DOCS Education, which organized in June 2000. (This columnist serves as a media relations consultant to the company.)
More than 2 million once fearful and anxious patients have been safely and effectively helped by DOCS Education-trained oral health professionals, who now number more than 20,000.
Rather than avoiding the dentist or hesitantly approaching each dental visit as if it were a trip to a torture chamber, sedation dentistry patients are completely relaxed and comfortable throughout their dental visit. Indeed, sedation dentistry is one of the most popular and fastest-growing treatment methods in the country.
DOCS Education-trained dentists are able to alleviate their patients’ searing oral pain; prevent tooth and bone loss; heal infectious oral cavities; and rebuild bright and full smiles – all using a safe, soothing and anxiety-free process. For many patients, the results positively transform the quality of their lives.
“Oral sedation dentistry, I believe, has done more to enhance the lives of dental patients and their doctors in the past decade than any other dental protocol, technique, appliance or practice,” says Dr. Michael Silverman, co-founder of DOCS Education.
Beyond tending to their patients’ oral health, sedation dentists have discovered the many benefits DOCS Education training brings to their own lives and practices.
“Like the very best gifts, what we’ve imparted to our patients has given back to us,” observes Dr. Silverman. “More than anything else, professional graduates of our various continuing education classes thank me for restoring the satisfaction to their work – for allowing them to treat patients safely and efficiently without having to suffer along with their patients’ emotional and physical pain.”
Dr. Silverman will be in Denver next week to help teach the Oral Sedation Dentistry course along with Dr. Anthony Feck, DOCS Education’s Dean of Faculty.
Dr. Silverman is a globally-recognized dental innovator, educator, author, and advocate for patients’ rights. He has changed the way tens of thousands of dentists practice and he continues to impact dentistry as a champion of safe and effective oral and IV sedation.
Dr. Feck, who is based in Louisville, KY, is an established clinician, mentor, author, educator, and speaker. Dr. Feck is well-known for a teaching and lecturing style that blends humor with contagious passion. He’s presented at local and state dental associations, as well as the American Dental Association and the Academy of General Dentistry.
DOCS Education will celebrate its 10th Anniversary at a black-tie gala to be held this week at Seattle’s iconic Columbia Tower Club, located 76 stories above the sprawling city and Puget Sound. Graduates of DOCS Education courses from around the country will join with founders, faculty, family and friends to honor their accomplishments and look to the decade ahead.
Colorado dentists who would like additional information on sedation dentistry and training courses, are invited to phone (877) 325-3627 or visit the professionals’ website at www.DOCSeducation.com. While the June 17th to June 19th Denver classroom is full, DOCS Education says it may be able to accommodate some late registrants.
Consumers with questions about fear-free, anxiety-free sedation dentistry should call (888) 858-7972 or visit the patients’ website at www.SedationCare.com.
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