22 September 2021

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New CE webinar from ADA: Opioids, Dentistry, and Addiction: The Dentist’s Role in Treating Pain

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Two past presidents of the Ohio Dental Association are leading a free webinar that features the positive role dentists can play to help mitigate the opioid crisis and discuss the relationship between substance use and addiction and treatments available for acute pain.

Sharon Parsons, D.D.S., and David Kimberly, D.D.S., M.D, are the presenters of Opioids, Dentistry, and Addiction: The Dentist’s Role in Treating Pain, which streams live Oct. 21 from noon-1 p.m.

Dr. Parsons, who owns a group practice in Columbus, Ohio, receives the Lucy Hobbs Humanitarian Award. Her younger son Michael practices with her. After her son Sean died of an opioid overdose in 2015, she educated others about opioid prescribing and addiction.

Dr. Kimberly is an oral surgeon in private practice in Akron. As well as a past president of the Ohio Dental Association, he is past chair of the Akron Dental Society, past chair of the Ohio Dental Association’s Council on Dental Care Programs and Dental Practice, and the ethics subcommittee. He is a member of the American College of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons, International College of Dentists, and American College of Surgeons.

One hour of continuing education credit is available.

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_j-kNAdBpRMyU1nFS-Agbcw

Source: https://www.ada.org/